Notes and Queries

Papers
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John Masefield2
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss2
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick1
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere1
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life1
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)1
Sterne, Trollope, and Temptation1
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy1
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
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
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll1
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)1
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost1
John Ray on Bookwheels0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
A Pun On ‘Desultory’ in ‘The Ring of Time’0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Stephen Hawes and the Death of Henry VII0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
‘Grandeza en la humildad’: The Further Story of Hopkins’s ‘In Honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez’0
From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
Provenance of Significant Manuscript Witness to Katherine Philips’ Poetry, WOR. MS. 58, Revisited0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
The ‘[H]aterell’ as Blind-Fold in the York Pageant of ‘Christ’s Trial Before Herod’0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
The Correct Publication Date of Mary Wellington's ‘1718’ Edition of Hamlet0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
A Burlesque Middle English Mathematical Question0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
Samuel Richardson’s Misattribution to Pliny in Sir Charles Grandison0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Bad Sheep: References to Brain Infections in the Cloud of Unknowing0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
OE don, macian, and wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
Books Received0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
Charming Words: A Possible Source for the Opening Section of A Talkyng of the Love of God0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: L. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and L. 193 ‘Dok’0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
‘The Flitting Phantoms of Iniquity’: A Spenserian Source for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Fancy’s Show Box: A Morality’ in the Ninth Canto of Book Two of The Faerie Queene0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults0
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘that Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
The Expression to Fanny About0
The Origins of £: S: D0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘to His Coy Mistress’?0
Cant in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild0
George Aitken’s Genealogy of Dr John Arbuthnot0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, John Donne, and William Perkins0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
A Possible Allusion to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 in East Coker IV0
Two Versions of Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Revision0
Roger Daniel and the Printing of Francis Finch’s Friendship (1654)0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
Lewis Carroll and ‘Dinah’: An Unnoted Joke in the Oxford Pamphlets0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Andrew O. Winckles, Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: ‘Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader’0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Jean R. Brink. The Early Spenser: ‘Minde on Honour Fixed’0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Latches in Shakespeare0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Urquhart’s Pantochronochanon: What’s in the Name0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Gower’s ‘Ovidian’ Source for line V.1283 of the Confessio Amantis0
An Unidentified Latin Poem by William Alabaster and its Translation by Abraham Cowley0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
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
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
‘Mi Minde is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
‘[T]hat Other Great Poet’: Double Falsehood, The Arden Shakespeare, and Further Evidence for Fletcher0
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive’0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
John Gower and ‘John of Bridlington’: An Unnoticed Borrowing0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
An Early Vernacular Annal on the First Crusade from Christ Church, Canterbury0
Stand in and be Counted0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
The Meaning of Old English Oft in Beowulf, with Notes on UnfÆgne/unfÆge at Beowulf, lines 572b and 2291a0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Correction0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
Phineas and His Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
OUP accepted manuscript0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
The Oldest English Lawyer Joke? Guthlac A, l. 265a and Christ II, l. 733a0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
A List of Fifty Toponyms in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
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
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
Keats, Kean, and Othello0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
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