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Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)4
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Dr Frances Stevens

1976-1977

Response to offer of Fellowship and request for help in completing study and writing. Includes TS draft of "The Imitative Principle" Letter from David Swales requesting place on English degree at Ro...

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Fanny Burney and the Burneys

Johnson, R Brimley (1867-1932)

[1926]

Selections from the writings of members of the Burney family.

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L C Knights

1947-1997

Correspondence mostly on academic careers, starting with offer of assistant lectureship to Berry at Sheffield. Includes conversations on new lecturing positions, teaching and academic writing.

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Studies in prose and poetry

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1894

32 p. of publishers' advertisments at end of work.

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Letters and papers of Professor Bonamy Dobrée

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

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...

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From the Third Programme : a ten-years' anthology : imagination, argument, experience, exposition

Morris, John (1895-1980)

1956

The descent into the cave / James Kirkup -- The heart of the king / William Plomer -- Maisie / V.S. Pritchett -- Antigone / Henry Reed -- Syler's green / Stevie Smith -- The artist in society / Graham...

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Letters concerning the English nation

Voltaire (1694-1778); Lockman, John (1698-1771)

MDCCXLI [1741]

Translation, by John Lockman, of Lettres philosophiques. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Published first in English in 1733, and in France a year later under the title "Lettres philosophiques." The hypothesis (BN...

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Texts of lectures and talks given by Professor Bonamy Dobrée, and notes on English literature by him

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

c.1930-1961

The contents of the folders are as follows: (1) Notes on prose and criticism. 80 ff.; (2) Notes on the Victorians. Lecture on Thackeray. Inaugural lecture, Leeds, 19 October, 1936. W.S. Knickerbocker'...

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Anglo-French and Franco-American studies : a current bibliography (Dec. 1938)

Bond, Donald F (1898-); Carrière, Joseph Médard (1902-1970)

[1938-1947]

Reprinted from The Romanic review, April 1938-April 1947. Caption title. Vol. 1 has title: American scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century Anglo-French studies.

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Anglo-French and Franco-American studies : a current bibliography (Apr. 1939)

Bond, Donald F (1898-); Carrière, Joseph Médard (1902-1970)

[1938-1947]

Reprinted from The Romanic review, April 1938-April 1947. Caption title. Vol. 1 has title: American scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century Anglo-French studies.

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