/ en /edward-sackville-wests-marcus-fleming-new-college-anti-hero <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/Photograph%20of%20Winchester%20College%20Officers%2C%201922%E2%80%94showing%20J.%20W.%20McDougall%20%28centre%29%2C%20Winchester%20College%20Archives%2C%20Winchester%2C%20G5-8-5.jpg.webp?itok=RI32s1R_" width="655" height="435" alt="Photograph of Winchester College Officers, 1922—showing J. W. McDougall (centre), Winchester College Archives, Winchester, G5/8/5" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Edward Sackville-West’s Marcus Fleming: Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ Anti-Hero? </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 21</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/577" hreflang="en">John Willey McDougall</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/578" hreflang="en">Edward Sackville-West</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/579" hreflang="en">Marcus Fleming </a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/580" hreflang="en">The Ruin: A Gothic Novel</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/256" hreflang="en">Winchester College Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/427" hreflang="en">Letters</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/581" hreflang="en">Evelyn Waugh</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>In 1924, Eddy Sackville-West wrote:</h3> <h3>‘It worries me to think how much I shall regret having published <em>The Ruin</em>. It is so certain to be misunderstood . . . If only I could get through a day or so without thinking of Jack. I don’t think he yet realises what I have gone through. <em>The Ruin</em> does not appear to have enlightened him, as I hoped it would. He never writes to me now.’</h3> <h3>What do we know of this ‘Jack’, who was so happily and unhappily dominating Eddy’s thoughts in 1924?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Photograph of Winchester College Officers, 1922—showing J. W. McDougall (centre)<br>Winchester College Archives, Winchester, G5/8/5<br>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>© Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of Winchester College</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-08/21NCN7%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20John%20Willey%20McDougall.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=867157" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN7 (2024) Skelton-Foord on John Willey McDougall.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">846.83 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:05:35 +0000 Christopher 3151 at /newly-acquired-literary-manuscript-ms-381-autograph-copy-cyril-hares-when-wind-blows-1949 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20381%2C%20f.%2048r%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=t5vLu0pM" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949) </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 21</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/463" hreflang="en">Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/462" hreflang="en">Cyril Hare</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/586" hreflang="en">MS 381</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/427" hreflang="en">Letters</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ alumnus, Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (1900–1958), is better known as the murder mystery writer—one of the luminaries of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction—who went by the penname ‘Cyril Hare’. &nbsp;Seventy-five years since the first publication of Cyril Hare’s <em>When the Wind Blows</em>, I am delighted to be adding to our library’s collections the original holograph manuscript of this novel—now New College Library’s MS 381.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Library, Oxford, MS 381, f. 48r [detail]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-08/21NCN9%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Hare.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=921109" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN9 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Hare.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">899.52 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:13:38 +0000 Christopher 3153 at /node/2601 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20380%2C%20f.%2018r%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=dxvUgHwz" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Library, Oxford, MS 380, f. 18r [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ MS 380 and Textual Transmission </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/387" hreflang="en">Edward Perry Warren</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/119" hreflang="en">Poetry</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/388" hreflang="en">Arthur Lyon Raile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/428" hreflang="en">MS 380</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/386" hreflang="en">MS 379</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/429" hreflang="en">John Marshall</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/430" hreflang="en">Harold Asa Thomas</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/427" hreflang="en">Letters</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/431" hreflang="en">Corpus Christi College, Oxford</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>In August 2022, it was our especial good fortune to be able to acquire a limp maroon leather-bound 90-page notebook that once belonged to Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ alumnus Edward ‘Ned’&nbsp;Perry Warren (1860–1928), containing fourteen autograph poems, along with quotations and other notes in Warren’s hand.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Library, Oxford, MS 380, f. 18r [detail]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN9%20%282022%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20New%20College%20MS%20380.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1009832" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN9 (2022) Skelton-Foord on Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ MS 380.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">986.16 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:36:50 +0000 Christopher 2601 at /node/2600 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20Keynes%201.jpg.webp?itok=o-KE3dHg" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Library, Oxford, Keynes 1" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Other Samuel Johnson’s English Grammar </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/422" hreflang="en">Robert Lowth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/426" hreflang="en">Samuel Johnson</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/423" hreflang="en">Randal Keynes</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/427" hreflang="en">Letters</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>An anonymous grammar was published a few years after Robert Lowth’s <em>A Short Introduction to English Grammar</em> (1762)—<em>The First Easy Rudiments of Grammar, Applied to the English Tongue</em> (1765), attributed to Samuel Johnson. But copies are elusive. Who was this Samuel Johnson, and what was his connection to our Ç¿¼éÊÓƵ scholar and fellow Robert Lowth?</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Library, Oxford, Keynes 1</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN8%20%282022%29%20Tieken-Boon%20van%20Ostade%20on%20The%20Other%20Samuel%20Johnson.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=267984" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN8 (2022) Tieken-Boon van Ostade on The Other Samuel Johnson.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">261.7 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:04:42 +0000 Christopher 2600 at