NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS

Part 1: The Browning, Eliot, Thackeray and Trollope Manuscripts from the British Library, London

This is a key source for all scholars of Victorian Literature, both for textual scholars studying individual works and those interested in the life and times of major authors.

Part 1 concentrates on the papers of five major authors. It contains:

• The complete holograph manuscripts of seven novels by George Eliot including Adam Bede and Middlemarch.
• Two of Eliot’s notebooks and four volumes of her correspondence.
• Eleven volumes of diaries, 1832-63, by William Thackeray, together with a further eleven volumes of his sketches and literary manuscripts.
• Anthony Trollope’s manuscript Autobiography.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese.
• Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book.