Notes and Queries

Papers
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E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick3
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
The Book of Wisdom and the Dægweorc in the Old English Exodus1
Schubert’s ‘Adieu’ in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply1
‘No Love Sincerer’: Byronian Intertextuality in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake’1
GRAY’S ‘ADVERSITY’ AND MESOMEDES’ ‘NEMESIS’1
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle1
Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and Puck’s Joke1
The Latin Epigraph of Jonson’s News from the New World Discovered in the Moon1
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
A New Jacopo Corbinelli’s Annotated Printed Book1
An Early English Example of the ‘Kings are Gods’ Argument1
Another Possible Etymological Origin for ‘Gibe | Jibe, V.’1
DIFFERENCES IN THE WIVES’ RESPONSES TO FORD’S VIOLENCE IN DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR CONFIRM THE PREVIOUSLY ASSUMED CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
An Unrecorded Middle English Bloodletting Verse in MS Ashmole 1438 (I)0
Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a Letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
Catharine Macaulay’s Reworkings of William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) in Her Letters on Education0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
Correction to the Cataloguing of a Watercolour by Thomas Stothard RA (1755–1834) at Magdalen College, Oxford0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
A Reinterpreted Source for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Theodor Adorno’s Comments on Ernest Hemingway0
The Edition Behind Nietzsche’s Lecture on Byron0
Shakespeare’s Darling Buds: Sonnet 18, Line 30
An Inspiration for Austen’s Juvenile Story Frederic and Elfrida0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
E. L. W: Laurence Binyon’s Unidentified Correspondent0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note CN I 449 3.310
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
COINED BY GEORGE J. HOLYOAKE IN1851? ANTEDATING THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘SECULARISM’0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Cromwellian, adj.’0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
The Spider’s Webs as Laws: Tracing a Saying of Anacharsis in News from Gravesend0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine , 1849–1851: a supplement to the union list0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
ANTEDATINGS OF THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘THEISM, N.’0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
A Possible Source for the Term Mental Sight in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 11.418 in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed I: 40
Sarah Scott and Elizabeth Montagu’s Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769): New Letters0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
Pugliano’s Horatian Conceit: an Apulian Wordplay in Sidney’s Exordium to the Defenceof Poesy0
Proffes and Prosses in Q1 Hamlet0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
George Eliot’s Invention of ‘Meliorism’0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
Stand in and be Counted0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
Redating Two Letters of A. E. Housman to Edith Wharton0
John Lydgate and Fifteenth-Century Reception of John of Salisbury’s Entheticus Maior0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
‘Beauties Ingredients’: Edward Herbert’s Allusion to Donne in ‘Elegy over a Tomb’0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
OE Don, Macian, and Wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
A Fragment of an Unpublished Letter from Voltaire to Richard Rolt0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
Antedatings of The Oed Entry for ‘Eulerian, adj.’0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
Womanly Noblesse and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
Re-Presenting the Battle of Brakonwet0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Keplerian, ADJ.’0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Three New Letters of Vincent Leigh Hunt0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon by John Tillotson Against the Earl of Rochester’s Satyr Against Reason and Mankind0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
The Old English Noun * gewændung0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Determinism, N.’0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
The Actors John Green (fl. 1606–1627), William Roe (c. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes0
‘THE PLAY’S THE THING’ ( HAMLET II.ii.604)0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
THE FORTUNES OF PERTINAX : BURTON AND JOHNSON0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
Nancy Pearn’s Offer Letter from Curtis Brown, 26 June 1922: The Beginning of the ‘Queen of The Magazines and Newspapers’0
ANTEDATING OF THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘RATIONALISM, N.’0
THE READING PRACTICES OF EDWARD SOUTHWELL AND THE FIRST KNOWN READER RESPONSE TO APHRA BEHN’S OROONOKO , 1690S0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
Poe’s Borrowing from an Unidentified Review in Blackwood’s Magazine0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
On the Meanings of Decor and Dignitas in Bede’s Account of Cædmon0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
‘Plain Jane’: Did Lady Jane Grey Habitually Wear Plain and Somber Attire?0
An Uncollected Letter from Pope to Faulkner, and Faulkner’s Pope Edition0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Copernican, Adj.’0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
‘WRITEN IN TH’EIR’: THE COURTS IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN’S EPISTRE AU DIEU D’AMOURS AND THOMAS HOCCLEVE’S LETTER OF CUPID0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
‘A Person not without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
New Light on the Source of the Middle English Alexander and Dindimus ( Alexander B )0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
A Lydgate Phantom No More: An Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Poem in the Chancery Miscellanea0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
An Undiscovered Letter by Mary Wollstonecraft0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
‘These are Terrible Times’: New Evidence of the Publishers’ Crash of 1826 in the Unpublished Correspondence of William Blackwood and Alexander Blackwood0
Coriolanus ’s Cushions0
W.E. Gladstone, G.O.M.: ‘God’s OnlyMistake’0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
The Faerie Queene III.XII.10: Borrowings from IL Libro Del Cortegiano , and an Emendation0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
An Authorship Misattribution in the George Eliot Archive0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
On the History of ‘Spoil-Sport’, with Oed First Usage Corrections0
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D’Argenville and the “Natural History of Shells” Series in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1755–1759: A Supplement to the Union List0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
Correction0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Old English Metrical Psalm 119:5–60
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
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