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Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Swiss manuscripts

Sir Thomas Phillipps’ Swiss manuscripts

As part of our exploration of the manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Dr Angéline Rais examines the fate of the Swiss manuscripts owned by Phillipps. Although Sir Thomas Phillipps spent a year in Switzerland in 1822–23 and purchased there more than 250...

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Where have all the Phillipps manuscripts gone?

Where have all the Phillipps manuscripts gone?

Continuing our exploration of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ remarkable manuscript collection, Toby Burrows (University of Oxford; University of Western Australia) examines the fate of the collection - @TobyBurrows The vast manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps...

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Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett’s legacy George Cruikshank, Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith, in a Series of Forty-One Plates (London: C. Tilt. 1832), [S.L.] IV [Cruikshank, G. – 1832] The prolific Regency and Victorian caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank...

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Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett’s contemporaries Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Journal (London: Mrs. Dodd, 1752), [S.L.] I [Fielding – 1752] fol. Although Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett may never have met each other in person, they were aware of each other and each other’s work....

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Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett as translator Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, trans. by Tobias Smollett (London: A. Millar et al., 1755), [S.L.] I [Smollett – 1755] fol. Smollett was as a translator as well as an author. Most of his...

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Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett Scintillates at 300

Smollett Scintillates at 300 If attendees were flocking to the University of London’s Senate House to attend the IES conference ‘Tobias Smollett at 300: The Work of Writing’, Senate House Library would be regaling them with books pertaining to Smollett to examine. As...

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