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Auteur(s) : Ricketts, Rita
Titre(s) : Scholars, poets & radicals [Texte imprimé] : discovering forgotten lives in the Blackwell Collections / Rita Ricketts
Publication : Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2015
Description matérielle : xviii, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Preface: A democratic space / Richard Ovenden ; Prologue: The archivist's view /
Julian Reid ; Introduction: Write to be heard ; 1. An Oxford education ; 2. A dreadful
radical ; 3. Women warriors ; 4. Scholar apprentices ; 5. A baker's son ; 6. A
moral witness ; 7. The good reader ; 8. The patriots ; 9. War on many fronts ;
10. Profligate printers spellbound princess ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291) and index
Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts
discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830
and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet,
a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and
patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to 'certain
death' in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John
Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell and Laurence Binyon, whose
name is recollected wherever For the Fallen is read. Most were obscure, yet their
memoirs, letters and journals, often disregarded in recorded history, are preserved
here. This is what makes the collections a rarity and so appealing. Family memories
of the first B.H. Blackwell and the diaries of his son and first apprentices document
everyday life against the backdrop of the book trade, and also present a tableau of
nineteenth and twentieth-century history ranging far beyond Oxford. The third B.H.
Blackwell (Sir Basil) collected their stories, singling out Rex King whose diaries,
1918-1940, contain an astonishing reading list and a mordant dissection of the texts
amounting to a critique of early twentieth-century English culture; rich fodder for
any book or cultural historian. Rex King, like all the characters in this book, wrote
for posterity. And Rita Ricketts, a consummate storyteller, has ensured that they
will be read by a new generation
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Scholars, poets and radicals
Sujet(s) : Édition -- Oxford (GB) -- Histoire
Blackwell (Firme) -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
070.592 (23e éd.) = Éditeurs commerciaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781851244256 (rel). - ISBN 1851244255 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443206040
Notice n° :
FRBNF44320604
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