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Watson/4/3
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- 1959 - 1976 (Creation)
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George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.
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This subseries is an approximately chronological arrangement of reviews of George Watson's 'Supplement' to 'The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature' and of 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'.
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1960-1969
'Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik' (1960)
'Anglia' (1962)
'A B Bookman’s Weekly' (8 December 1969)
'Times Literary Supplement' (11 December 1969)
'Fraserburgh Herald' (circa 1969-1970)
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1970
'Book Collecting & Library Monthly' (circa February 1970)
'Library Review' (Spring 1970)
'Wilson Library Bulletin' (March 1970)
'Library Journal' (1 April 1970)
'St Luke’s Journal' (June 1970)
'The Private Library' (August 1970)
'Studies in the Novel' (Autumn 1970)
'Bulletin des bibliothèques de France' (November 1970)
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1971
'AUMLA' (first half 1971)
'Journal of English and Germanic Philology' (January 1971)
'Book Review Digest' (May 1971)
'Cithara' (May 1971)
'Different Library Journal' (July 1971)
'Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Comparate' (September 1971)
'Victorian Studies' (September 1971)
'Times Literary Supplement' (15 October 1971)
Letter from J.C. Hilson from the 'Times Literary Supplement', referring to previous review
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1971)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1971) (different from above)
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1972
'Book Review Digest' (January 1972)
'Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America' (first quarter 1972)
'Seventeenth Century News' (Spring 1972)
'Bulletin des bibliothèques de France' (April 1972)
'American Reference Books Annual' (June 1972)
'Philological Quarterly' (July 1972)
'Cithara' (November 1972)
'Times Literary Supplement' (29 December 1972)
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1973
'Library Journal' (15 March 1973)
'Modern Philology' (November 1973)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1973)
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1974
'Daily Telegraph' (August 1974)
'Books & Bookmen' (October 1974)
'Milton Quarterly' (October 1974)
'Age' (November 1974)
'British Book News' (November 1974)
'Catholic Library World' (November 1974)
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1975
'Booklist' (15 January 1975)
'Choice' (January 1975)
'Reference Services Review' (January-March 1975)
'The Library' (June 1975)
'American Book Collector' (March-April 1975)
'Neophilologus' (April 1975)
'Book Review Digest' (May 1975)
'Neue Zurcher Zeitung' (September 1975)
'Comparative Literature Studies' (December 1975)
'Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Comparate' (December 1975)
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1976
'Studies in Burke and His Time' (Spring 1976)
'Études Anglaises' (April 1976)
'Cithara' (May 1976)
'American Reference Book Annual' (June 1976)
'Durham University Journal' (December 1976)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1976)