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Watson/5/18
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- 1987 (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 1987. This subseries contains typescripts, photocopied material pertaining to the Chinese edition, correspondence and one review. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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Introductory notes for a course on 'Dissertations: Or How to Write' (13 October 1986)
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Typescript with manuscript corrections
Contents page
Typescript with additional manuscript corrections
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Sample cover
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Two photocopies of the Chinese edition's opening chapter, with a printed AbeBooks.co.uk catalogue page for same
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Correspondence with Andrew McLennan and Mark Anderson of Longman. As this is a short correspondence with two figures from the same company, it has been considered one chronologically arranged file, and not sequenced alphabetically by correspondent as elsewhere in George Watson's papers.
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One review, from the Spring 1987 issue of an unidentified history magazine
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Folder labelled 'Watson: "Writing a Thesis" 4-12-85'