Notes and Queries

Papers
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E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick3
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
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
A Note and Letter Accompanying the 1863 Duchuxuan Edition of Haoqiu Zhuan at the Bodleian Library1
The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake’1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
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
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
GRAY’S ‘ADVERSITY’ AND MESOMEDES’ ‘NEMESIS’1
The Book of Wisdom and the Dægweorc in the Old English Exodus1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
‘No Love Sincerer’: Byronian Intertextuality in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman1
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
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
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
New Light on the Source of the Middle English Alexander and Dindimus ( Alexander B )0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
The Old English Noun * gewændung0
‘Writen in Th’eir’: The Courts in Christine De Pizan’s Epistre au dieu D’Amours and Thomas Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid0
Stand in and be Counted0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
An Inspiration for Austen’s Juvenile Story Frederic and Elfrida0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
MARLOWE’S OTHER MAPS: TWO NEW SOURCES FOR TAMBURLAINE0
‘Fusspot’: Antedating the OED Entry and A New Possible Etymology0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
Catharine Macaulay’s Reworkings of William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) in Her Letters on Education0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Determinism, N.’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
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
‘Beauties Ingredients’: Edward Herbert’s Allusion to Donne in ‘Elegy over a Tomb’0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Old English Metrical Psalm 119:5–60
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
‘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
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
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
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
An Authorship Misattribution in the George Eliot Archive0
Coriolanus ’s Cushions0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
Three New Letters of Vincent Leigh Hunt0
The Reading Practices of Edward Southwell and the First Known Reader Response to Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko , 1690S0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
On the History of ‘Spoil-Sport’, with Oed First Usage Corrections0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
Womanly Noblesse and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice0
Re-Presenting the Battle of Brakonwet0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
‘These are Terrible Times’: New Evidence of the Publishers’ Crash of 1826 in the Unpublished Correspondence of William Blackwood and Alexander Blackwood0
The Edition Behind Nietzsche’s Lecture on Byron0
Shakespeare’s Darling Buds: Sonnet 18, Line 30
George Eliot’s Invention of ‘Meliorism’0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
An Uncollected Letter from Pope to Faulkner, and Faulkner’s Pope Edition0
An Unnoticed Poetic Address to Roger CRAB ( d .1680), Hermit of Ickenham, Middlesex0
‘A Person not without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
A Fragment of an Unpublished Letter from Voltaire to Richard Rolt0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Redating Two Letters of A. E. Housman to Edith Wharton0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
‘Plain Jane’: Did Lady Jane Grey Habitually Wear Plain and Somber Attire?0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
Correction0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
William Mitford and the Accentual Paradigm in Old English Metrics0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note CN I 449 3.310
The Fortunes of Pertinax : Burton and Johnson0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
A Lydgate Phantom No More: An Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Poem in the Chancery Miscellanea0
An Unrecorded Middle English Bloodletting Verse in MS Ashmole 1438 (I)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
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
On the Meanings of Decor and Dignitas in Bede’s Account of Cædmon0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
The Faerie Queene III.XII.10: Borrowings from IL Libro Del Cortegiano , and an Emendation0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
John Lydgate and Fifteenth-Century Reception of John of Salisbury’s Entheticus Maior0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
The Marriage of Swetnam The Woman-Hater0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
E. L. W: Laurence Binyon’s Unidentified Correspondent0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
The Date of Eilmer of Malmesbury’s Flight0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
W.E. Gladstone, G.O.M.: ‘God’s OnlyMistake’0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Cromwellian, adj.’0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Eulerian, Adj.’0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
The Actors John Green (fl. 1606–1627), William Roe (c. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Poe’s Borrowing from an Unidentified Review in Blackwood’s Magazine0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
Correction to the Cataloguing of a Watercolour by Thomas Stothard RA (1755–1834) at Magdalen College, Oxford0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
A Reinterpreted Source for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
CHRIST IN THE BELFRY IN DOROTHY SAYERS’S0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
DIFFERENCES IN THE WIVES’ RESPONSES TO FORD’S VIOLENCE IN DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR CONFIRM THE PREVIOUSLY ASSUMED CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER0
‘Sumer is Icumen in’: What is That Buck Really Doing?0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Nancy Pearn’s Offer Letter from Curtis Brown, 26 June 1922: The Beginning of the ‘Queen of The Magazines and Newspapers’0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon by John Tillotson Against the Earl of Rochester’s Satyr Against Reason and Mankind0
Sarah Scott and Elizabeth Montagu’s Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769): New Letters0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
Three Unpublished Edmund Blunden Letters0
The Spider’s Webs as Laws: Tracing a Saying of Anacharsis in News from Gravesend0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Keplerian, ADJ.’0
Pugliano’s Horatian Conceit: An Apulian Wordplay in Sidney’s Exordium to the Defenceof Poesy0
Proffes and Prosses in Q1 Hamlet0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
GLÆDMAN HROĐGAR: CHEERFUL GIVING AT BEOWULF , l. 367b0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Copernican, Adj.’0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
ANTEDATINGS OF THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘THEISM, N.’0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
An Undiscovered Letter by Mary Wollstonecraft0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
COINED BY GEORGE J. HOLYOAKE IN1851? ANTEDATING THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘SECULARISM’0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
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