Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection

This book forms part of the Readerships and Literary Cultures Collection. This collection preserves selected editions of fiction from the period 1900-1950 and is designed to support study into the formation of literary tastes and into the creation and negotiation of reading hierarchies.

Index booklet This booklet contains an alphabetical list of authors, genres and keywords in the collection.

Contents

Author list………………………………….1

Genre List……………………………………6

Keyword List………………………………..8

Author List

A Bridge, Ann Ainsworth, William Harrison Bromfield, Louis Aldington, Richard Broster, Dorothy Kathleen Allingham, Margery Brown, George Douglas Arlen, Michael Buchan, John Ayres, Ruby Mildred Buckrose, J. E. B Burnett, Frances Hodgson Bagnold, Enid Burroughs, Edgar Rice Balchin, Nigel C Barclay, Florence Louisa Caine, Hall Bardin, John Franklin Caldwell, Erskine Bartimeus Cannan, Joanna Bates, Ralph Canning, Victor Baum, Vicki Charteris, Leslie Beerbohm, Max Chase, James Hadley Bell, Adrian Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Belloc, Hilaire Childers, Erskine Bennett, Arnold Christie, Agatha Benson, Edward Frederic Church, Richard Benson, Stella Clarke, Allen Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor Clewes, Howard Berkeley, Anthony Cole, G. D. H. Black, Dorothy Cole, Margaret Blackwell, Basil Collins, Wilkie Blake, Nicholas Compton-Burnett, Ivy Bloom, Ursula Connington, J. J. Book of Tobit Connolly, Cyril Bottome, Phyllis Corelli, Marie Bowles, Jane Auer Cozzens, James Gould Brahms, Caryl Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock Brett Young, Francis Crispin, Edmund Crofts, Freeman Wills 1

Author List

Cronin, Archibald Joseph Flower, Newman Cummins, Maria Susanna Forester, Cecil Scott Cunninghame Graham, R. B. Frankau, Gilbert D Frankau, Pamela Darling, William Young Fuller, Timothy Dataller, Roger G Davies, William Henry Galsworthy, John De la Roche, Mazo Ganpat Deeping, Warwick Garnett, David Delafield, E. M. Gilbert, Michael Francis Dell, Ethel May Glyn, Elinor Dickens, Monica Godden, Rumer Diver, Maud Golding, Louis Douglas, O. Graham, Scott Dowie, Ménie Muriel Grey, Zane Du Maurier, Daphne H E Hall, Radclyffe Eberhart, Mignon Good Hamilton, Patrick Elliott, William James Hammett, Dashiell F Hanley, James Fairless, Michael Hare, Cyril Fairlie, Gerard Hay, Ian Farnol, Jeffery Heaton, Rose Henniker Farrell, M. J. Herbert, Alan Patrick Fauconnier, Henri Hergesheimer, Joseph Ferguson, Margaret Hewlett, Maurice Feuchtwanger, Lion Heyer, Georgette Findlater, Jane Hichens, Robert Smythe Findlater, Mary Hilton, James Firbank, Ronald Hine, Muriel Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Holme, Constance

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Holtby, Winifred Laski, Marghanita Hope, Anthony Le Queux, William Hornung, Ernest William Lehmann, Rosamond Hudson, William Henry Leverson, Ada Hughes, Richard Linklater, Eric Hull, Edith Maude London, Jack Hunt, Cecil Lynd, Robert Hutchinson, A. S. M. M Hutchinson, Ray Coryton Macaulay, Rose I Macdonell, A. G. Innes, Michael Machen, Arthur Irwin, Margaret Mackail, Denis George J Mackenzie, Compton Jacob, Naomi Ellington Mannin, Ethel Jacobs, William Wymark Marrot, Harold Vincent Jameson, Storm Marsh, Ngaio Jefferies, Richard Masefield, John Jenkins, Herbert George Mason, A. E. W. Jerome, Jerome K Masterman, John Cecil Joad, C.E.M Masters, John Johns, William Earl Maugham, W. Somerset Johnson, Pamela Hansford McKenna, Stephen K Milne, A. A. Kaye-Smith, Sheila Mitchell, Margaret Kennedy, Margaret Mitchison, Naomi Keyes, Frances Parkinson Moore, John Kitchin, Clifford Henry Benn Morgan, Charles Klickmann, Flora Mottram, Ralph Hale Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott Moult, Thomas L O Lane, Margaret O'Brien, Kate

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Author List

Onions, Oliver Strachey, Julia Frances Oppenheim, Edward Phillips Stratton-Porter, Gene Orczy, Emmuska (Baroness) Street, A. G. P Struther, Jan Pargeter, Edith Sue, Eugène Pett Ridge, W. Swan, Annie S. Plaidy, Jean Swinnerton, Frank Priestley, J. B. Swinton, E. D. Q Symons, Julian Quiller-Couch, Arthur T R Taylor, Elizabeth Raymond, Ernest Templer, John. Redlich, Monica Tey, Josephine Reid, Mayne Thirkell, Angela Ritson, Kitty Thoreau, Henry David Roberts, Cecil Thorne, Anthony Robertson, E. Arnot Tillyard, Aelfrida Weenhall Roth, Henry Tomlinson, H. M. S Tressell, Robert Sabatini, Rafael V Sadleir, Michael Von Arnim, Elizabeth Sale, Charles W Sayers, Dorothy L. Wallace, Edgar Sharp, Margery Walpole, Hugh Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs. Ward, Humphry, Mrs. Shute, Nevil Warner, George Townsend Spring, Howard Waugh, Alec Squire, John Collings Webb, Mary Stacpoole, H. De Vere Webster, Nesta Helen Steel, Flora Annie Webster Wells, H. G. Steen, Marguerite White, Antonia

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Wilder, Thornton Y Williamson, Henry Yates, Dornford Wolfe, Thomas Yerby, Frank Wood, Henry, Mrs. Young, Emily Hilda Wren, Percival Christopher

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Genre List

Definitions of these terms can be F found at: Family -- Fiction http://www.worldcat.org/genres/ Family saga Fantasy fiction A Farce Feminist fiction Adventure fiction H Allegories American fiction Historical fiction Arthurian romances Horror fiction Autobiographical fiction Humorous fiction Autobiography Hunting stories B M Bildungsromans Medical novels Biographical fiction Melodramatic fiction Biography Metafiction Modernism (Literature) C Mysticism -- Fiction Children's stories O Comedies Comedy of manners Occult fiction Country life -- Fiction P D Parables Dark humour Pastoral fiction Detective and mystery stories Political fiction Diary fiction Psychological fiction Didactic fiction R Disasters -- Fiction Realism -- Fiction Domestic fiction Religious fiction Dramatic monologues Road fiction E Roman a clef Epistolary fiction Romantic fiction Essays Rural fiction

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Genre List

S Satire Science fiction Sea stories Serialised fiction Short stories Spy stories Suspense fiction T Tragedies Travel fiction Travel writing W War diaries War stories Western stories Whimsical fiction Working class -- Fiction Y Young adult fiction

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Keyword List

16th century Amateur arts 17th century Ambulance Corps 18th century America 1910s American Civil War 1920s American Deep South 1930s American Mid-West 19th century British politics American West 19th century Italy Americanisation 19th century Americans abroad Anarchy A Ancestry Abortion Anglican life Absolutism Anglo-French marriage Abused wives Anglo-Irish country life Academic parody Anglo-Irish relations Academics Anglo-Irish society Actors Anglo-Saxon England Adele (Fictitious character) Animal stories Adultery Animal, dignity Advertising Anti-clericalism Aestheticism Anti-egalitarianism Africa (4) Anti-feminism Africans Anti-government fiction Ageing actors. Anti-intellectualism Ageing Anti-religious polemic Agricultural catastrophe Anti-romance Agricultural workers Anti-Semitism Air Police Anti-suburban fiction Aircraft factories Anti-suffrage Adlerian psychology. Anti-Victorianism Alcohol addiction Anti-war Alleyn, Inspector (fictitious character) Arab identity

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Keyword List

Archaic discourse (pastiche 17th Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879- century) 1964 Archaic discourse (pastiche Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 Elizabethan) Bereavement Architecture Bestsellers (13) Aristocracy Bible Art world Bigamy, fear of. Artistry Birthday parties Artists Blackmail Atheism Boarding schools Atonement Boer War Australia Bohemian London. Austria Bohemianism Authors and authorship Bolsheviks Automatic writing Bolshevism Aviation Bond Street jewellers Awakening to adulthood Book history Book trade B Border smuggling Backstage intrigue Boston marriage Back-to-the-land Boxing Ballet world Bradford (England) Balloon debate Breweries Barbarism Bristol (England) Barnes, Djuna British Army Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860- British Empire 1937 British Navy Barrister detective British officers Barsetshire Britishness Battle of the Somme Brittany (France) Battles of Waterloo Broadcasting Battle of Ypres Brothers

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Keyword List

Bruddersford (Bradford) Childhood, pre- World War, 1914-1918 Burma Childhood Business Children with disabilities. Butlin's (Firm) Children Children's perspective C China Café proprietorship Chivalry Cafés Chorus girls California (United States) Christian authors and authorship. Cambodia Christian missions Camp humour Christianity Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940 Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965 Campus life, America Cigar trade Canada Circuses Canary Islands City of London Caravaggio Civil servants Cardiff (Wales) Civilians in wartime Cars Civilization, superficial Casinos Class mobility Cassell's Publishing Company Class prejudices Castles, Holland Class tensions Castles, Germany Class Cathedral towns Clergymen Catholicism Clerkenwell (London, England) Catholic priest detectives Clerks Celebrity actresses Climate change Celebrity (3) Clowns Central Europe Coastal town Chapman, Guy (2) Cockney life Chastity Colette, 1873-1954 Chelsea (London, England) Collaboration Child abuse College reunion

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Keyword List

College teachers Cowboys Colonialism Cricket Comedians Crime and punishment Communism Crime Commercial travellers Cross dressing Composer and pianist Cross-generational romance Composers Croydon (London, England) Condition of England Cultural conflict Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 Cultural hierarchy Conservatism Cultural history Conservative MP Cumberland (England) Consumption Czechoslovakia Contract bridge D Controversy Daily Mail newspaper (London, Convents England) Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986 Dandyism Cornwall (England) Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Corrupt Western civilization Decadence Country gentry Decline of aristocracy Country house murder Demeter (Greek deity) Country house restoration Dependent men Country house retirement homes Dependent women Country house decline Depravity, genetic inheritance Country houses, Ireland Desertion Country houses Deserts Country inns Desire Country life Despair Country orchestra Despotism Courtesan Detective authors and authorship. Courtship Devon (England) Cousins Devotion Cowardice

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Keyword List

Dialects Engineering Dickens' Life of our Lord England Dido, Queen of Carthage English abroad, Africa Disability English abroad, Malaya Docklands (London, England) English aristocracy Doctors English Civil War, prelude Domestic happiness English Civil War Domestic tyranny English decadence Domesticity English gentleman Domesticity, rejection of English intellectuals Dorset (England) English Literature Drama Englishness Drugs Entertainers, travelling Drug addiction. Entertainment Druid stone circle Escape Duckworth (Firm) Espionage Dwellings, design and construction Euripedes Dystopia Europe, condition of European aristocracy E Evening Standard Newspaper (London, East end (London, England) England) Eastern wisdom Exhumation Eco-catastrophe Exmoor (England) Edwardian England Expatriate's children Edwardian London Edwardian middle class F Edwardian politics Fabian Society Elemental nature Faithful dog Elizabethan England Family drama Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Family honour Emancipation of slaves Family relationships End of Empire Family secrets

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Keyword List

Family Freewoman Fancy-dress parties French decadence Fantasy French drama Far East (Java) French family Far East French farming communities Farming French planters Farming communities French Revolution Fascism Frenchness Father and son relationships Freud, Sigmund Fathers Fugitives Faustian pact G Fear of rape Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C. Femininity Gallipoli campaign Femme fatale Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 Feminism Gambling houses Feudal fantasy Gangs, women Feudal nostalgia Gangsters Film stars, Hungarian Gardening Film world Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882 Finance Gas taps Fin-de-siecle Gender identity Fire of London Gender of authorship First love Gender roles Fishing Gender Fleet Street (London, England) Genetic identity Florida (United States) Genetics Food shortages Gentility Foreign Legion Gentle-violent hero Foster homes German East Africa Foster parents German invasion of France France German spies Fraud

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Keyword List

German-Anglo romance Hemingway, Inspector (Fictitious Germany character). Ghosts Heroism Glasgow (Scotland) Hidden identity Golf clubs Hidden treasure Gorbals (Glasgow) High Society Governesses Himalayas Governor General of Canada (3) Historical reconstruction Graham, Billy, 1918- History of reading Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946 Hit-and-run Great Plague Hoaxes -- Fiction Greed Hodder and Stoughton Grosvenor, Susan Holy Grail Grub St Home Front Guardian newspaper (England) Homosexual identity Guardianship of house Horse racing Guatemala Horses Hostage-taking H Hotel porters Haliford (fictional town) Hotel proprietors, Female Hallucinations Hotels Hamlet (Legendary character) House ownership Hampstead (London, England) House parties Hanaud, Inspector (Fictitious Houses of Parliament character). Human isolation Hard-boiled detectives Human-animal relations Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (2) Humiliation Harmsworth Humour Harvard University Hunting Haute-couture Hurricanes Health farms Huxley family

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Keyword List

I Interwar generation Idealism Interwar Germany Identity swap Interwar London Identity Intrigue Illegitimacy Ireland, Political conflict Imaginary countries Ireland Immigration Irish Immortality Island Imperial fantasies Islington (London, England) Imperialism Isolation Impersonation Italy, Politics Incest fears Italy Independence J Independent women Jacobite rebellion, 1745-1746 India, 200 B.C. Jamaica India James, Henry, 1843-1916 India, Kashmir. Jealousy India, north-west frontier Jersey Individualism Jewellery thieves Industrial north Jewish community Industrial tycoon Jewishness Inheritance (6) Jews, Polish Inquisition Jews Insurance (2) Journalism Intellectuals Journalism, magazine Intercultural relations (2) Julius Caesar Intergenerational conflict Justice Interior decorating taste International capitalists K International threat Kent (England) Internment Kindness versus cleverness Interwar Bombay King Arthur’s childhood.

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Keyword List

Kingliness Lower middle class origins Kingship Lower middle class Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 Lust

L M Labour Party Madness, Feigned Lancashire (England) Magistrates Landowners and land agents Majorca (Spain) Laundry businesses Malaria Leadership Malaya Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895- Male carers 1978 Male inadequacy Leeds (England) Male literary aspirations Leftist politics Male neediness Legal procedure Mallett, Inspector (fictitious character). Lesbianism Man against nature Letters Man-animal Liberalism Manchester (England) Libraries Manipulative middle class family Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Man-woman relationships Literary agents Marital problems Literary allusions Marriage and passion Literary celebrities Marriage as career Literary history Marriage Literary pretention Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 Literary society Mary Ward settlement Literary tastes Masculinity London (England) Mass culture London theatre Materialistic wives London dialects Maternal deprivation Lost leaders Maternal love Love triangle Matriarchs

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Keyword List

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Modernism Somerset), 1874-1965 Modernity Mayfair (London, England) Money Meaning of life Monmouth rebellion Medical ethics Morris, William, 1834-1896 Medicine Moscow (Russia) Medieval England Mother and daughter relationships Mediterranean Motherhood Members of Parliament Murder, justified Memory Murder Mental illness Murderers, psychology Merchant seamen Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957 Metamorphosis Music Halls Metropolitan areas Music Metropolitan corruption Muslim dancing girls Metropolitan decadence Mystery writers Mexico Mysticism Middlebrow Mythology Middlebrow authors and authorship N Middle class bullying Napoleonic Wars Middle class England. National Identity Middle class marriage National Velvet Middle class values Natural history Middle class Naturalists Middle East Nature and society Midlands (England). Nature Military convalescent hospitals Naval warfare Mill towns Nazi Germany Mining communities Nelson's Publishing House Mississippi (United States). New Mexico Mixed ethnicity New Woman. Modern women

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Keyword List

New York (N.Y. America) Parcel delivery men Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England) Parental relationships Newspapers Paris (France) Nicholson, William, 1872-1949 Paris aristocracy Nitzschean superman Parody Norman France Passion North Devon (England). Paternity North-East England Penny Paper Northern dialects Phoenicians Northern England Photography Northern Europe Physical training college Northern Ireland Piety Novel writing Pirates, women Pirates O Plantations Obsession Ploegsteert (Belgium) Office workers Plymouth Brethren Opera singers Plutocracy Opium addiction Poaching legislation Ordinary life Poetry Orientalism Poets Orphans Poisons Oxford (England) Political idealism Oxford aestheticism Politics Oxford University Popular authors and authorship. Oxfordshire (England) Postmodern elements P Post-war Europe Paddington (London, England) Potterism Painters Pottery towns Painting Poverty, genteel Pan (Greek deity) Poverty, rural Papacy Poverty, urban

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Keyword List

Poverty Quest for marriage. Predatory women. R Prehistoric man Race Prejudice against trade Racial identity Prejudice Racism, anti-French Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894- Racism, anti-German 1984 Racism Primitive and civilised Rags-to-riches Prisoners of war, German Railways, London Prisoners of war, Italy Rape Private medicine in London Reading Professional musicianship. Rebellion Profiteering Redemption Prohibition Reed, Carol, 1906-1976 Promiscuity Reformatory for girls Property Refugees Proprietors, women Regency England Providence Regency London Provincial life Regional entertainment Psychiatrists, women Regional life Psychiatrists Reincarnation Psychic powers Religion versus science Psychology Religion Public health Republicanism Public schoolboys Retail trade Public school Reuters Ltd Public versus private Revenge Pubs Rich Pygmies Right-wing conspiracy England Q Rima, the Bird Girl Quakers Riviera (France)

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Keyword List

Roaring Twenties Scotland Roman Britain Scott, Charles Prestwich, 1846-1932 Roman Catholicism Scottish dialects Romanies Scottish lowlands Romantic authors and authorship. Sea Rome (Italy) Sealers (Persons) Rosary Sealing ships Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Self-discovery Ruined abbeys Selfishness Rural America Self-loathing Rural dialects Self-made man Rural life, England Self-sacrifice Rural life, Scotland Sentiment Rural life Sex antagonism Rural middle class. Sex Rural mysticism Sexual assaults Rural Oxfordshire Sexual awakening Rural upper middle class. Sexual continence Russian ballet Sexual humiliation Sexual hypocrisy S Sexual identity Sacrifice Sexual masochism, women Sacrificial love Sexual relationships Saint Augustine Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Sailors Shangri-La Salvation Sheffield (England) Salvation Army Shell-shock Satanic rituals Shepherd Schoolboys Sheringham, Roger (Fictitious Schools and schooling character) School teachers Ship building Scientists Ship wreck

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Keyword List

Shipowners Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) Shropshire (England) Spain Siege of Alcazar Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Singapore Spanish inquisition Single parenthood Spanish Sinn Fein Spinsterhood Slums Spiritual life Small holding (vineyard) Spiritual medium Small town politics. St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) Snobbery State finance Social ambition Statues Social cohesion Stockbroker Social conservatism Stockbroker detective Social mobility Stoicism Social order Suburban London Social work Suburbanisation Socialism Suffragettes Sophistication Supernatural South Africa Surreal nightmares South America Surrey (England) South American jungle Survival South American novelists Sussex (England) South American travellers Sussex dialects South East London Swallows and Amazons South East England Sweden South Midlands (England) Sword fights South of France T Southend (England) Television series Southern American gentleman Templar, Simon (Fictitious character) Southern England . Tenant farmers South London Tennis South Wales

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Keyword List

Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 Upper class The Bookman (magazine) Upper middle class. The Classics Upstairs-downstairs The London Mercury (magazine) Uruguay Theatre Utopia Thomas Hardy V Thriller authors and authorship. Venice (Italy) Tibet Victorian Childhood Time travel Villages Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), Violence 1892-1973 Violent sex Trade Violinist Traffic accidents, female victim Visions Tramping Trauma W Travel, Europe Waiters, Italian Travel Waitresses Treason Walsinghams's secret service Trenches War Effort Trial War journalism Troop ship War, brutality of Twelfth Night War, psychological impact Twins War Tyrannical patriarchs Water supply Weaving trade U Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866- Ugly hero 1946 Unemployment West End clubs Unhappy marriages West Indies United States, East Coast. West Yorkshire (England) United States Whimsical fiction University life Whitby (England)

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Keyword List

Whitechapel (London, England) World War 1914-1918 Whitehall, London World War 1939-1945 White Russian World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects Widows World War, 1914-1918, Prelude to Williamson, Henry World War 1939-1945, aftermath Wiltshire (England) X Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious Xenophobia character) Women artists. Y Women authors and authorship. Yorkshire aristocracy Women carers Yorkshire villages Women’s identity Yugoslavia Women's intelligence Woman's personal space Women’s power Woman-woman relationships Women farmers Women, semi-educated Women, unsocialised Women, unscrupulous Women Women, middle-aged Women's education Women's independence Women's political and family roles Women, predatory. Women, professional Women, suffering Women's suffrage Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Working mothers World War 1914-1918, aftermath

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