Item Box 7 - Clara Hopgood

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Davies/Box 7

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GB 275 Davies/Box 7

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Clara Hopgood

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(1909-1984)

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Entered St John's 1928. Jebb Studentship and Le Bas Prize 1931. BA 1931. Author of English Surrealist's manifesto, 1936 and co-curator of Surrealist Exhibition, London 1936. Surrealist prose poem 'Petron' published 1935. Published three novels 1950-60, 'The Papers of Andrew Melmoth'(1960) being the best known. Appointed College Rat Catcher 1967. Concentrated his critical talents on Wordsworth's poetry for last 20 years of his life, becoming a Trustee of Dove Cottage and having 'Wordsworth and the Worth of Words' published posthumously in 1986.

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Typescript of HSD's continuation of Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford (William Hale White).

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