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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Sala, George Augustus | 428 |
| Dryden, John (1631-1700) | 318 |
| Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) | 298 |
| Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) | 287 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 280 |
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) | 228 |
| Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) | 207 |
| Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) | 165 |
| Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919) | 140 |
| Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) | 131 |
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1890's Literature (Brotherton Collection)
1890s
Literary works published in the final decade of the 19th century. The collection also contains a small number of more recent works surveying the literary and artistic movements and ideas of the closin...
The Disguise. A Comedy. In five acts.
Early 19th century
The original manuscript, probably autograph, of an unpublished early 19th century comedy. The identity of the author is unknown. The play features characters such as Lord Montrose, Sir Charles Lu...
'Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm' manuscript volume
Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)
08 Oct 1894
Unpublished volume of poetry by Frederick Startridge Ellis, who was primarily known as William Morris's bookseller. This manuscript is primarily fair copy with occasional additions and revisions, al...
Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)
1818-1848
(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...
Shirley Brooks, diaries
Brooks, Shirley (1815-1874)
1867-1872
Each volume is bound in leather and embossed on the spine with gilt lettering: SHIRLEY BROOKS' DIARY, followed by the years 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 respectively. On the inside of each front cover...
Robert Browning, holograph poems
Browning, Robert (1782-1866)
c.1820-1866
Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...
Mortimer Collins, poems
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
James Dalton, correspondence
Dalton, James
c.1795-1824
Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...
Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines
Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)
c. 1850
A historical drama in prose
Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne
c.1810-1835
Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.
Thomas De Quincey, autobiographical fragment concerning his diet and health
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
1837
Marshall Family, correspondence with various literary personalities
Marshall Family
c.1852-1881
Members of the Marshall Family named in the correspondence include the following:-(1) Julia O'Brien; (2) Edward O'Brien; (3) Nellie O'Brien; (4) Mary Marshall; (5) James Marshall, 1802-1873; (6) Aubre...
Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems
Peacock, Florence
c.1895-1896
Comprises the following poems:-(1) 'The charm of the rue'; (2) 'Living though the date be old'; (3) 'A stony way'; (4) 'Though your sins be as scarlet...', Isaiah 1.18; (5) 'A northern sailor'; (6) 'T...
John Ruskin, miscellaneous correspondence
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
7 Aug 1852 - 17 May 1882
Contains: (1) 2 letters to Miss Gertrude Huish with envelopes, 1 dated 4 November [18]60; (2) 1 undated letter to Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell; (3) 1 undated letter about art to Mr R. Peyton Further materi...
Robert Southey, correspondence, literary manuscripts and printed works
Southey, Robert (1774-1843)
c.1797-1839
Comprises: (1) A collection of autograph letters written by Robert Southey to John May and others, together with manuscript poems and notes by Robert Southey, and autograph letters to John May from T...
William Makepeace Thackeray, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related material
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
c.1835-1860
Comprises: (1) 26 letters and manuscripts dated 1835-1860, guarded in order and bound in 1 vol., accompanied by an annotated typed list of contents by Dr Eric Millar and the bill for the cost of bindi...
Ichabod Charles Wright correspondence
Wright, Ichabod Charles (1795-1871)
c.1831-1871
Contains: (1) Correspondence when editing Dante, 1831-1871, 2 vols lettered: J.C. WRIGHT ON DANTE: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS; (2) Correspondence when editing Homer, 1846-1865, 3 vols lettered: J.C. WRIGHT'S T...
Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn
Agnew, Andrew
c.1830-1840?
Comprises: (1) 2 satirical poems, the first entitled 'To Saint Andrew Agnew' and signed by 'Ewe', the second entitled 'The "Monstre" Saint' and signed by 'Beta'; (2) A hymn, 'by Saint Andrew Agnew!' a...
Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem
Hervey, Thomas Kibble (1799-1859)
c. 1850
Comprises the apparently original holograph manuscript of Hervey's poem 'The nun'. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which is somewhat fuller than that found in the Dictionary of Nationa...
Charles Benjamin Tayler, On the death of a youthful disciple, a poem
Tayler, Charles Benjamin (1797-1875)
1852
Comprises the apparently original autograph manuscript of Charles Tayler's poem 'On the death of a youthful disciple', written at Otley in 1852. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which i...
William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes
Clayfield, William
1820s
Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...
William Black, The Penance of John Logan
Black, William (1841-1898)
1887
Manuscript copy, autograph, of his novel "The Penance of John Logan", which was first published in 1889. The novel is written on the recto side of each leaf of the volume in a small, condensed hand in...
Charles Whitehead, The Solitary: a poem, in three parts
Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)
1831
Manuscript copy, possibly in Whitehead's hand, of his long meditative poem "The Solitary", which was first published in 1831.
Blavatnik Honresfield Library
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Patrick Branwell Brontë; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
c17th - 19th century
Manuscripts, letters and books belonging to the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, collected during the late nineteenth century by William Law. The manuscript items relate to the Brontë family, and inc...