University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Margaret Higginson Galway

Lectures and other notes, 1930s-1960s; drafts of a book entitled The Gay Science ; notes for a book entitled Courtly Love ; manuscript and typescript copies of articles; offprints of publications; press-cuttings relating to T.S.Eliot.

Margaret Higginson Galway, b. 1900, was a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Birmingham. She retired in September 1961. She published numerous articles and book reviews for academic journals. These included: Chaucer, Graunson, and Isabel of France in The Review of English Studies , vol. 24, October 1948; Froissart in England in University of Birmingham Historical Journal , vol. 7, no. 1, 1959; Geoffrey Chaucer, J.P. and M.P in Modern Language Review , vol. 36, no. 1, January, 1941; Joan of Kent and the Order of the Garter in University of Birmingham Historical Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 1947; The Wilton Diptych : a postscript in Archaeological Journal , vol. 107, 1950; and Philippa Pan; Philippa Chaucer in The Modern Language Review , vol. 55, no. 4, October 1960.

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This collection was presented by the Galway family; the gift is reported in the University Librarian's annual report for 1968/69.

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