Papers relating to Jane Austen, The Brontes, George Eliot, R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde
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Contains biographical notices, articles, reviews and portraits. Includes a copy of the ‘George Eliot Centenary’ edition of the Coventry Herald, 7-8 Nov 1919.
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to the theatre - programmes and articles
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Contains miscellaneous cuttings, programmes, and photographs of various plays, including private performances for the Literary Theatre Society (including a performance of Wilde’s Salome). Also includes an article on set design and other cuttings relating to the theatre, as well as biographical no...
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to the theatre - musical theatre and dance
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Contains articles, cuttings, and programmes, together with biographical notices/portraits of: Rutland Boughton; Frederic Chopin; Claude Debussy; M. Ernest Fanelli; (Miss) J. I. Gordon; Julius Harrison; Erich Korngold; Frank Liebich; Jean Sterling Mackinlay; Serge Rachmaninoff; Maurice Ravel; Hugh...
Contains assorted reproductions, photographs of his work, biographical notices, exhibition catalogues, and newspaper cuttings. Includes a biographical pamphlet on Ricketts by Gordon Bottomley (reprinted from the Durham University Journal, June 1940). Also includes catalogues and announcements for...
Separate poems and letters to the press by Gordon Bottomley
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Separate poems. Mostly typewritten or printed, but 'The Orchard Feast' is autograph. At the end are seven poems possibly not written by Bottomley. Letters published in the press, including open letters.
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to fashion
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Contains prints, postcards, reproductions etc, of various fashions of dress, assembled by Bottomley presumably as material for costume designs. Also, two articles by Charles Ricketts from The Saturday Review (9 Jan and 27 Feb 1909) on ‘Greek Dress’ and ‘The True Significance of Dress’.
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to poetry - broadsides
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Contains ‘Bellerophon’ (John and Judith Masefield); Poetry Bookshop Rhyme Sheets 4-8, 10 (Harold Monro, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Sturge Moore, Frank Sidgwick, John Drinkwater, Sydney Dobell); 'Drum and Fife' (James Guthrie, Pear Tree Press); Pear Tree Press Christmas greetings for 1920; Grassho...