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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2
An Early English Example of the ‘Kings are Gods’ Argument1
Another Possible Etymological Origin for ‘Gibe | Jibe, V.’1
Sterne, Trollope, and Temptation1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
Schubert’s ‘Adieu’ in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
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 New Jacopo Corbinelli’s Annotated Printed Book1
Gray’s ‘Adversity’ and Mesomedes’ ‘Nemesis’1
The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake’1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary1
Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and Puck’s Joke1
The Latin Epigraph of Jonson’s News from the New World Discovered in the Moon1
Edward Howard’s The Man of Newmarket (1678) and the King’s Company’s Complaint Against Dryden1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
A Note and Letter Accompanying the 1863 Duchuxuan Edition of Haoqiu Zhuan at the Bodleian Library1
The Book of Wisdom and the Dægweorc in the Old English Exodus1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle1
Coriolanus ’s Cushions0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
A Lydgate Phantom No More: An Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Poem in the Chancery Miscellanea0
The Old English Noun * gewændung0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
‘Beauties Ingredients’: Edward Herbert’s Allusion to Donne in ‘Elegy over a Tomb’0
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
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
An Uncollected Letter from Pope to Faulkner, and Faulkner’s Pope Edition0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Three New Letters of Vincent Leigh Hunt0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber0
POE’S BORROWING FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED REVIEW IN BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE0
W.E. Gladstone, G.O.M.: ‘God’s OnlyMistake’0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
A Reinterpreted Source for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
Stand in and be Counted0
The Date of Eilmer of Malmesbury’s Flight0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
The Reading Practices of Edward Southwell and the First Known Reader Response to Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko , 1690S0
Early English Saints and Tenth Century Wessex: The Evidence of The Metrical Calendar Of Hampson0
An Unnoticed Poetic Address to Roger Crab ( d .1680), Hermit of Ickenham, Middlesex0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
‘Writen in Th’eir’: The Courts in Christine De Pizan’s Epistre au dieu D’Amours and Thomas Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid0
‘These are Terrible Times’: New Evidence of the Publishers’ Crash of 1826 in the Unpublished Correspondence of William Blackwood and Alexander Blackwood0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note CN I 449 3.310
Christ in the Belfry in Dorothy Sayers’s0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
John Lydgate and Fifteenth-Century Reception of John of Salisbury’s Entheticus Maior0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
Sarah Scott and Elizabeth Montagu’s Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769): New Letters0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Correction0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
The Marriage of Swetnam the Woman-Hater0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
The Spider’s Webs as Laws: Tracing a Saying of Anacharsis in News from Gravesend0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
GLÆDMAN HROĐGAR: CHEERFUL GIVING AT BEOWULF , l. 367b0
Eucharistic Allusion in the Franks Casket?0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Keplerian, ADJ.’0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
A Source for the ‘Wild Angel’ in Joyce’s Portrait : Walter Pater and Hugh Miller0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
Redating Two Letters of A. E. Housman to Edith Wharton0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon by John Tillotson Against the Earl of Rochester’s Satyr Against Reason and Mankind0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a Letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion0
William Mitford and the Accentual Paradigm in Old English Metrics0
Correction to the Cataloguing of a Watercolour by Thomas Stothard RA (1755–1834) at Magdalen College, Oxford0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Nancy Pearn’s Offer Letter from Curtis Brown, 26 June 1922: The Beginning of the ‘Queen of The Magazines and Newspapers’0
Not ‘Eased/With Being Nothing:’ the Potential Contribution of Shakespeare’s Richard II to Yeats’s ‘Fergus and the druid’0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
‘A Person not without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
Proffes and Prosses in Q1 Hamlet0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
An Unrecorded Middle English Bloodletting Verse in MS Ashmole 1438 (I)0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Eulerian, Adj.’0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
E. L. W: Laurence Binyon’s Unidentified Correspondent0
New Light on the Source of the Middle English Alexander and Dindimus ( Alexander B )0
Differences in the Wives’ Responses to Ford’s Violence in Different Versions of Merry Wives of Windsor Confirm the Previously Assumed Chronological Order0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Copernican, Adj.’0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
The Actors John Green (fl. 1606–1627), William Roe (c. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Determinism, n.’0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
The Edition Behind Nietzsche’s Lecture on Byron0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
Womanly Noblesse and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
An Authorship Misattribution in the George Eliot Archive0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
George Eliot’s Invention of ‘Meliorism’0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
The Fortunes of Pertinax : Burton and Johnson0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
The ‘Missing Day’ and Gawain’s Mid-Holiday Departure: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Lines 1020–3, 1046–510
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
‘THE PLAY’S THE THING’ ( HAMLET II.ii.604)0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
Old English Metrical Psalm 119:5–60
Catharine Macaulay’s Reworkings of William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) in her Letters on Education0
Coined by George J. Holyoake in1851? Antedating the OED Entry for ‘Secularism’0
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
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
An Undiscovered Letter by Mary Wollstonecraft0
An Inspiration for Austen’s Juvenile Story Frederic and Elfrida0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
On the Meanings of Decor and Dignitas in Bede’s Account of Cædmon0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Re-Presenting the Battle of Brakonwet0
Pugliano’s Horatian Conceit: An Apulian Wordplay in Sidney’s Exordium to the Defenceof Poesy0
The Contemporary Reputation of the Publisher Humphrey Moseley0
Shakespeare’s Darling Buds: Sonnet 18, Line 30
Three Unpublished Edmund Blunden Letters0
‘Plain Jane’: Did Lady Jane Grey Habitually Wear Plain and Somber Attire?0
The Faerie Queene III.XII.10: Borrowings from IL Libro Del Cortegiano , and an Emendation0
Marlowe’s Other Maps: Two New Sources for Tamburlaine0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
A Fragment of an Unpublished Letter from Voltaire to Richard Rolt0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
The ‘There’s Hair’ Song and Motifs in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
‘Fusspot’: Antedating the OED Entry and a New Possible Etymology0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Theism, n.’0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
John Ray on Bookwheels0
‘Sumer is Icumen in’: What is That Buck Really Doing?0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
On the History of ‘Spoil-Sport’, with Oed First Usage Corrections0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Cromwellian, adj.’0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
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