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Archive Collection:
MS 1309

c.1900-1980

Katherine Mary Briggs was bom in London in 1898, the eldest of three surviving daughters of Ernest and Mary Briggs. The Briggs family had its origins in Yorkshire and had built up its fortune from the...

Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Brontë

1812-1925

A substantial collection of original and transcribed material by, or relating to, different members of the Brontë family. The collection contains: (A) by Anne Brontë, an autograph manuscript discu...

Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Gosse

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c London Magazine Editions

1965-1979

The archive material contained within this collection relates to the publication of various volumes and dates from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, during the editorship of Alan Ross. The bulk of the ...

Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c New Statesman

1914-1983

The collection falls into two sections - editorial correspondence from the First World War period and more recent literary material from the 1960s through to the mid 1980s. This archive complements th...

Archive Sub-collection:
MS 408

c.1918-c.1967

The papers of the late Professor Bonamy Dobrée, professor of English literature in the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955, were very kindly presented to the Library in the session 1974-5, by his d...