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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2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An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0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