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Watson/5/3
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- 1962 (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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First published 1962. This subseries contains draft material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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DRAFT MATERIAL
'Preface to an Enlarged Edition (1986)'
'Chapter 11: Theory and Practice since 1960' (for the aforementioned Enlarged Edition)
'Chapter 11: Criticism since 1960' (full draft of the above, with manuscript corrections, and accompanied by a note quoting T.S. Eliot writing to I.A. Richards about the earlier edition)
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CORRESPONDENCE
ADEN, John M
BARTON, Anne
BATESON, Frederick Noel Wilse
BEZZANT, James Stanley
BLACKBURN, Alex
BROWN, Hunt
BRUNNER, Hugo
CALVOCORESSI, Peter
CARSWELL, Christine
CLARK, Charles
DAVIS, Herbert
DONAGAN, Alan
EDWARDS, Philip
EHRENPREIS, Irvin
FOWLER, Alastair
HACHETTE, Jean-Paul-Marie
HART-DAVIS, Rupert
HOLLOWAY, John
INGLESFIELD, Robert
JOHNSON, R V
KINSLEY, James
LANE, Allen
LEWIS, Clive Staples
MARKS, Emerson R
MAXWELL, James
MEASHAM, D C
MINDLIN, Murray
MOIR, Duncan W
MONK, S H
MOTION, Andrew
NEWTON, J M
PADEN, W D
PHILIPPS, Robert
REEVES, Sonia
RUOTOLO, Lucia
SCHINCKLER, C
SEATON, Mary Ethel
SEWARD, Anthony W R
SHARMA, Lila Prasad
SOUTHAM, Brian
STEINER, George
TRICKETT, Rachel
TYLER, I J
WARNER, Oliver
WEAVER, Michael
WEIDENFELD, George
WENDER, Dorothea S
WINDTHORST, Rolf E
WOZNIAKOWSKI, Jacek
ZÁNTHÓ, Robert I
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REVIEWS
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Envelope labelled '"The Literary Critics" / pbd 24 May 1962'