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Scholars, Poets and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections
Rita Ricketts
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Description for Scholars, Poets and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 48 colour plates, 31 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DN; DQ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 784.
Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor’s son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to ‘certain death’ in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell and Laurence Binyon, whose name is recollected wherever For the Fallen is read. Most were obscure, yet their memoirs, letters ... Read more
Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor’s son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to ‘certain death’ in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell and Laurence Binyon, whose name is recollected wherever For the Fallen is read. Most were obscure, yet their memoirs, letters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244256
SKU
V9781851244256
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About Rita Ricketts
Rita Ricketts is the author of Adventurers All (2002).
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