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Total number of records: 42

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Archives17

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Brotherton Collection27
English Literature17
Leeds Poetry3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Leeds Russian Archive2

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english fiction42
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english drama7
english literature7
gothic fiction (literary genre)4
canon (literature)3
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russian fiction2
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Blavatnik Honresfield Library7
Kelmscott Press5
Morris, William (1834-1896)5
Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823)4
Acton Bell3
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)3
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848)3
Bronte, Patrick (1777-1861)3
Brown, Martha (1828-1880)3
Ellis Bell3

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William Empson

1958-1988

Letters from Empson to Berry mainly about departmental business and students in the Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield. Also includes a letter from a student asking for exam...

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My young Alcides : a faded photograph

Yonge, Charlotte M (1823-1901); Stokes, Adrian (1854-1935)

1889

Title vignette.

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R. Vaughan Williams

1928-1950

Letters from Vaughan Williams to Berry thanking Berry for his Christmas card and for sending a poem and also asking if Berry's work "Murdock" was in any way influenced by Vaughan William's music.

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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...

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The early writings of William Makepeace Thackeray

Johnson, Charles Plumptre (1853-1938)

1888

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William Trevor, three literary manuscripts with a postcard

Trevor, William (1928-2016)

c.1973

Comprises: (1) Three autograph typescripts of literary works by Trevor with many manuscript revisions, namely fragments of two plays and one piece of fiction, undated and not identified; and (2) An au...

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Frederick William Rolfe, (Baron Corvo), collection

Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)

1881-2011

Includes works and letters by Frederick Rolfe and the papers of Donald Weeks' who wrote and researched extensively on Rolfe.

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William Boyd, literary manuscript notebook with a related letter

Boyd, William (1952-)

1984-1987

Comprises the autograph manuscript notebook of William Boyd in which he drafted his short story entitled 'Alpes maritimes', dated 'Tuesday. 16. Oct. 1984.' at the beginning, followed by notes written ...

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Some great English novels : studies in the art of fiction

Williams, Orlo (1883-)

1926

Partial contents: Tom Jones (Fielding)--Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens)-- Pendennis (Thackeray)--The egoist (George Meredith)--Roxana (Defoe)--Emma (Jane Austen)--Adam Bede (George Eliot)--The way of all ...

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