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Watson/5/11
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- 1973 (Creation)
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Paper.
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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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First published 1973. This subseries contains research material, a typescript, cover-design material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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Photocopied research material
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Typescript with manuscript corrections
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Cover-design template on translucent paper
Draft of back-cover description with manuscript corrections
Image of final cover
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CORRESPONDENCE
BARKER, Rodney
BAYLEY, John
BEICHMAN, Arnold
CARSON, Peter
CHALONER, W H
COLLINS, Philip A W
DODDS, Elliott
GALLAGHER, Jack
GILMOUR, Robin
GLEESON, Dermot
GORDON, Eleo
HARVEY, Heather
HENNOCK, Ernest Peter
HOLLOWAY, John
JENNINGS, Bernard
JONES, Emrys
KOSELLECK, R
MacDONAGH, Oliver
MILLER, Karl Fergus Connor
MIRFIN, Derick
MONOD, Sylvere
PELLING, Henry
PRICE, James
ROBSON, John M
SCOTT, Peter
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SISSONS, Michael
SKINNER, Quentin
STEINBERG, Jonathan
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REVIEWS
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Envelope labelled '"The English Ideology" (Allen Lane, Feb. 1973)'