GB 0103 DAVISON - Davison Papers

56 boxes

GB 0103 DAVISON [1978-2000] Collection (fonds) 56 boxes Davison , Peter , fl 1980-2004 , Professor of English

Peter Davison was editor of The Complete Works of George Orwell and Professor and Senior Research Fellow in English and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester. Davison was originally commissioned in 1981 to produce corrected versions of Orwell's nine separate books. He also edited the Facsimile of the Manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four and was commissioned in 1982 to produce a collected edition of Orwell's shorter writing which developed into the production of The Complete Works. He was President of the Bibliographical Society, 1992-1994, whose journal, The Library, he edited for 12 years. He was also a Shakespeare expert on whose plays he published a number of works.

Publications:

The Complete Works of George Orwell editor

Songs of the British Music Hall: A Critical Study

Popular Appeal in English Drama to 1850

Contemporary Drama and the Popular Dramatic Tradition

Hamlet: Text and Performance

Henry V: Masterguide

Othello: The Critical Debate

George Orwell: A Literary Life

Presented by Peter Davison, 2004.

Papers of Peter Davison, [1978-2000] relating to The Complete Works of George Orwell, including Davison's notebooks and notes; letters relating to errors in The Complete Works; letters to publishers; biographical material relating to Orwell; drafts of The Complete Works and photocopies of Orwell's correspondence, diaries, book reviews and works from the BBC - many annotated by Davison.

Original order.

Closed pending cataloguing. Please contact the UCL Special Collections Team for further information.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
English

Box list.
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Sep 2008 Davison , Peter , fl 1980-2004 , Professor of English Literature Blair , Eric Arthur , 1903-1950 , novelist and journalist known as George Orwell x Orwell , George BBC , British Broadcasting Corporation

Presented by Peter Davison, 2004.

Papers of Peter Davison, [1978-2000] relating to The Complete Works of George Orwell, including Davison's notebooks and notes; letters relating to errors in The Complete Works; letters to publishers; biographical material relating to Orwell; drafts of The Complete Works and photocopies of Orwell's correspondence, diaries, book reviews and works from the BBC - many annotated by Davison.

Original order.

Closed pending cataloguing. Please contact the UCL Special Collections Team for further information.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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English

Box list.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels