Bodleian Library

Some of her letters remain in the British Library and the Bodleian Library .

The government publication Food Facts for the Kitchen Front appeared, with a foreword by Lord Woolton , the Minister of Food: PF called this her only authentic, though unsigned, best-seller.

PL was also an indefatigable letter-writer. A couple of thousand of his letters to his mother survive at Hull History Centre , and about 1,500 to Monica Jones . A selection of his highly personal...

ADA 's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong describes and exploits the annual university carnival of misrule which employed a licensed burlesque speaker. She drops, with cheerful irreverence, a...

The editors of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore see the defining characteristic of these private writings as their vitality, their passionate engagement with the world at large. The early letters are rich in...

CF is interested less in appearances than how things work. On her first journey she made this observation of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral: being so high it appeares to us below as sharpe...

Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College is...

Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got...