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Total number of records: 3958

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Indexes150
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Brotherton Collection1226
South Bank Show Production Archive1187
English Literature846
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse183
Herbert Read Collection136
Leeds Poetry103
Leeds Russian Archive52
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection38
Letters Database22
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections20

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literature (prose)1186
english poetry111
latin language110
english literature89
greek language64
english prose literature57
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english language29

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Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron De (1732-1799)97
Beisson, Francois-Joseph-Etienne (1759-1820)92
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas De Caritat Marquis De (1743-1794)92
Decroix, Jacques Joseph Marie (1827)92
Voltaire (1694-1778)92
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)81
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)68
Homer47
Macpherson, James (1736-1796)46
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From 19001599
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Up to 1899791
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Prose

c. 1800

'Honesty’s the best Policy' by an unidentified author.

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Prose

Fagiuoli, Giovanni Battista (1660-1742)

1741

Contents: Cicalata.--Dubbio.--Problemi.--Prefazioni.

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Prose

1808-1850

Manuscripts of the prose stories 'A Legend of Schlangenbad', 'Margaret; or The Daughter's Trial', 'A Spring Ramble' and three versions of 'The Travelled Lizard'.

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Prose

c. 1825-1870

Manuscripts of prose stories by Mary Cowden Clarke, most of which were written in the 1850s and 1860s and some of which were published.

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Proses from Foundations for Latin prose composition

Lewis, L W P; Goddard, E H (1896-1983)

1938

Advertisements on 1 p. at the end.

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Miscellaneous Prose

c.1992-1993

Ms prose poem identified as a narration for a walk along the south coast in ITV programme ‘End of England’, produced by Dominic Savage (1 f); ms notes for a review of a Sheffield poetry reading (3...

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Works of prose

Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Kesten, Hermann (1900-1996); Ashton, E B (1909-)

[1943]

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Elizabethan prose

Roberts, Michael (1902-1948)

1933

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Collected prose

Flecker, James Elroy (1884-1915); Bridgen, John William

1922

Contents: Tales and sketches.--The Grecians.--Critical studies.

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Prose, by a poet (v.1)

Montgomery, James (1771-1854)

1824

By James Montgomery

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Prose, by a poet (v.2)

Montgomery, James (1771-1854)

1824

By James Montgomery

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Prose, by a poet (v.2)

Montgomery, James (1771-1854)

1824

By James Montgomery

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