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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2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
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
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
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
John Lydgate and Fifteenth-Century Reception of John of Salisbury’s Entheticus Maior0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
ANTEDATINGS OF THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘THEISM, N.’0
On the Meanings of Decor and Dignitas in Bede’s Account of Cædmon0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Three Unpublished Edmund Blunden Letters0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Proffes and Prosses in Q1 Hamlet0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
New Light on the Source of the Middle English Alexander and Dindimus ( Alexander B )0
The Old English Noun * gewændung0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Keplerian, ADJ.’0
Catharine Macaulay’s Reworkings of William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) in Her Letters on Education0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
An Inspiration for Austen’s Juvenile Story Frederic and Elfrida0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
W.E. Gladstone, G.O.M.: ‘God’s OnlyMistake’0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
‘Beauties Ingredients’: Edward Herbert’s Allusion to Donne in ‘Elegy over a Tomb’0
The Actors John Green (fl. 1606–1627), William Roe (c. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
An Undiscovered Letter by Mary Wollstonecraft0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
DIFFERENCES IN THE WIVES’ RESPONSES TO FORD’S VIOLENCE IN DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR CONFIRM THE PREVIOUSLY ASSUMED CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
Stand in and be Counted0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
MARLOWE’S OTHER MAPS: TWO NEW SOURCES FOR TAMBURLAINE0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
Nancy Pearn’s Offer Letter from Curtis Brown, 26 June 1922: The Beginning of the ‘Queen of The Magazines and Newspapers’0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
An Authorship Misattribution in the George Eliot Archive0
An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon by John Tillotson Against the Earl of Rochester’s Satyr Against Reason and Mankind0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Determinism, N.’0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
GLÆDMAN HROĐGAR: CHEERFUL GIVING AT BEOWULF , l. 367b0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes0
Pugliano’s Horatian Conceit: An Apulian Wordplay in Sidney’s Exordium to the Defenceof Poesy0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Copernican, Adj.’0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
Coriolanus ’s Cushions0
On the History of ‘Spoil-Sport’, with Oed First Usage Corrections0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
Re-Presenting the Battle of Brakonwet0
Three New Letters of Vincent Leigh Hunt0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
George Eliot’s Invention of ‘Meliorism’0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
‘These are Terrible Times’: New Evidence of the Publishers’ Crash of 1826 in the Unpublished Correspondence of William Blackwood and Alexander Blackwood0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
COINED BY GEORGE J. HOLYOAKE IN1851? ANTEDATING THE OED ENTRY FOR ‘SECULARISM’0
An Uncollected Letter from Pope to Faulkner, and Faulkner’s Pope Edition0
‘Writen in Th’eir’: The Courts in Christine De Pizan’s Epistre au dieu D’Amours and Thomas Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
‘A Person not without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
‘Fusspot’: Antedating the OED Entry and A New Possible Etymology0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
Redating Two Letters of A. E. Housman to Edith Wharton0
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
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Shakespeare’s Darling Buds: Sonnet 18, Line 30
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
Old English Metrical Psalm 119:5–60
An Unnoticed Poetic Address to Roger CRAB ( d .1680), Hermit of Ickenham, Middlesex0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note CN I 449 3.310
‘THE PLAY’S THE THING’ ( HAMLET II.ii.604)0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
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
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
Correction0
The Faerie Queene III.XII.10: Borrowings from IL Libro Del Cortegiano , and an Emendation0
The Reading Practices of Edward Southwell and the First Known Reader Response to Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko , 1690S0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
The Marriage of Swetnam The Woman-Hater0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
The Fortunes of Pertinax : Burton and Johnson0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Cromwellian, adj.’0
A Lydgate Phantom No More: An Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Poem in the Chancery Miscellanea0
Poe’s Borrowing from an Unidentified Review in Blackwood’s Magazine0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Eulerian, Adj.’0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
Womanly Noblesse and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Correction to the Cataloguing of a Watercolour by Thomas Stothard RA (1755–1834) at Magdalen College, Oxford0
The Edition Behind Nietzsche’s Lecture on Byron0
E. L. W: Laurence Binyon’s Unidentified Correspondent0
A Reinterpreted Source for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
CHRIST IN THE BELFRY IN DOROTHY SAYERS’S0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
The Date of Eilmer of Malmesbury’s Flight0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
A Fragment of an Unpublished Letter from Voltaire to Richard Rolt0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
‘Plain Jane’: Did Lady Jane Grey Habitually Wear Plain and Somber Attire?0
The Spider’s Webs as Laws: Tracing a Saying of Anacharsis in News from Gravesend0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
William Mitford and the Accentual Paradigm in Old English Metrics0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
‘Sumer is Icumen in’: What is That Buck Really Doing?0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Sarah Scott and Elizabeth Montagu’s Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769): New Letters0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
An Unrecorded Middle English Bloodletting Verse in MS Ashmole 1438 (I)0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
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