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This article focuses on the Royal Manuscript 18 B II which is the earliest and most complete surviving witness to the Middle English prose "Melusine." The article discusses the single-text codex and its features including the number and placement of capitula and explores the hypothesis that the manuscript was translated from the first edition of writer Jean d'Arras's "Mélusine" printed by Adam Steinschaber in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1478.

Focuses on the allusions in the book 'Paper's Complaint,' by John Davies. Criticisms of several poets; Imagery in the texts; Derivation of the theatrical nickname 'Ajax.'

The article explores the eighteenth-century newspaper war between journalist Mary Singleton of "The Old Maid" and Mr. Town of "The Connoisseur." Topics discussed include the documentation of the exchanges between Singleton and Mr. Town on issues such as competition and hypocrisy, the way Mr. Town published criticisms of Singleton in "The Connoisseur," and the response offered by Singleton about the involvement of single women in newspaper publishing.

The article refers to a June 1753 letter written by English author Samuel Richardson to British poet Elizabeth Carter, as well as Carter's letter in response, which discuss the British Jewish naturalization Act of 1753. Richardson refers to a "little paper" which he included with his letter to Carter. The article argues that this was a pamphlet attributed to Philip Carteret Webb having the abbreviated title "The Bill, Permitting Jews to be Naturalized by Parliament, Having Been Misrepresented in the London Gazetteer, of Friday the 18th May."

The article discusses a passage B XV 417-28a from Langland's C-Papers by Piers Plowman. Piers Plowman B XV 417 has presented itself to any editors or readers as a crux, either textual or interpretive. As a standalone passage; its point is clear the manuscript variants are minor. In the poem Anima, he discusses the contemporary followers of the apostles. Quotations from the book "Piers Plowman: The B Version" have been used in the article to analyze the passage. The passage doesn't look like ur-B material of revision, rather seems to be a draft of matter perhaps originally intended for the opening of C XVII, but eventually discarded and nor recalled from the ur-B papers, its best material is for use where appropriate.

Focuses on Anthony Wood's bibliographical attachment which accompanied the legal document, identified in the Christ Church library, Oxford, England and dated 1151. Information on Wood's treatment of the documents he examined; Reference to a series of unsuccessful claims made by the canons of Saint Frideswide's against the canons of Oseney in 1151,1174 and 1200; Accusations made against the archdeacon of Oseney by the Prior of Saint Fridewside.

Focuses on several articles on John Hardyng's poem, 'Chronicle, which have appeared since 1980, describing a positive renaissance in the field. Suggestion from A.S.G. Edwards that the second version of Hardyng's 'Chronicle,' does not exist in anything like a stable form; Importance of the codicology of each manuscript of the second version of the poem.

The author discusses possible copying errors on manuscripts of the play "A Yorkshire Tragedy" by Thomas Middleton. The author describes emendations based on the misreading of the ascenders of handwritten letters, and cites editors John Jowett and Stanley Wells' interpretation of the play. The debated scene is between a husband and an adulterous wife, and handwriting samples from Middleton's play "A Game of Chess" are described. Paper from the Jacobean era and the depictions of time and the murder of children in the play are also discussed.

The article analyzes how author Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses the metaphor of rooms as used by author Charles Dickens to highlight the claustrophobic experience of the narrator in her novel "The Yellow Wall-Paper." She praised him for transcending sex his fiction. Her claustrophobic experience in "The Yellow Wall-Paper' shows two earlier rooms of Dickens where the tyranny of enclosed space takes a psychological toll on male characters. The nursery room wall in her novel shares the panoptic vision of the character Pip's wall.

Provides information about John Aubrey and the circulation of Edmund Waller's poem 'Of a Tree Cut in Paper.' Copy of the 22-line version; Interpretations of the poem; Analysis of the manuscript date.

The author presents a list of the sales of the art and books of English author William Blake between 1997 and 2016.

This article presents information related to the papers of litterateur Charles James Fox whose papers were passed to his nephew, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third baron of Holland (1773-1840), who intended to write a biography of his uncle who was assisted in this by John Allen, his physician and companion, who published a collection of Fox memoirs under his own name. The Fox papers were then bequeathed to his son, George Macaulay Trevelyan, who consulted them in writing his "Lord Grey and the Reform Bill (1920)." It was he who donated the papers, in 1951, to their present owner, the British Library.

This article presents information about several Book "Occasional Papers of the Shipston-On-Stour and District Local History Society." edited by Sylvia M. Gardner. The book contains a brief foreword from which people learn that the Society was in the nineteenth year of its existence in 1984, when the volume was published. New series starting in this last quarter of the twentieth century have to face financial difficulties unknown before librarians and others who wish to have information about this series may obtain further information from H.O. Parry of the Society, at 32 Callaway's Road, Shipston-on-Stour.