Terry Castle

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Bonamy Dobrée

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of itscharacters' psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: `permanently avant-garde' in Terry Castle's words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Graham Greene

Edward Dahlberg

Kathleen Raine

Sir Herbert Edward Read

Barbara Hepworth

Lady Margaret Ludwig Read

1) manuscript of Read's novel 'The Green Child' (box 18); 2) manuscript of Read's play 'The Parliament of Women: a drama in three acts', 1960; 3) manuscripts of Read's non-fiction monographs: 'Arp', 1968, 'Art and Alienation: the role of the artist in society', 1967, 'The Beautiful and the Sublime: An Introduction to the Visual Arts' (renamed afterwards?); 'Creative Humanism' (renamed afterwards?); 'The Redemption of the Robot: my encounter with education through art', 1966; 4) typescripts and manuscripts of various essays, articles, speeches, and lectures by Read; 5) manuscripts and typescripts of Read's poetry; 6) Read's correspondence (mainly from 1965 to 1968) with W.H. Auden, Ian Bevan, André Breton, Basil Bunting, Edward Dahlberg, Valentine and Bonamy Dobrée, T.S. Eliot, Ruth Francken, Graham Greene, Michael Hamburger, Jean Hélion, Rayner Heppenstall, Barbara Hepworth, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Carl Jung, G. Wilson Knight, Oskar Kokoschka, Pierre Matisse, Henry Miller, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Roland Penrose, Kathleen Raine, and thousands of other individuals and institutions (in many cases carbon copies of Read's part of the correspondence also survives); 7) photographs and slides of art work, sometimes accompanied by related correspondence with artists; 8) personal photographs; and 9) miscellaneous material including personal items (domestic and financial records, passports, pocket diaries) and Lady Margaret Read's material including manuscript music, plans and programmes related to the Hovingham Hall Festival.

Papers and Correspondence of Herbert Read

Bonamy Dobree

Three Eighteenth Century Figures: Sarah Churchill, John Wesley [and] Giacomo Casanova

First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Studies in Seven Authors

The Lamp and the Lute

Bonamy Dobrée

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