Post-1800 Collections
All post-1800 monographs are catalogued in the Library Catalogue.
The Division houses growing collections
of material printed after 1800.
Notable among the authors represented are Samuel
Beckett, Edmund Blunden, Charles Dickens, Robert Graves, Leigh Hunt, Henry
James, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Siegfried
Sassoon, H.G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf. Subject concentrations in the
collections cover such areas as literary and historical works relating to
World War I, World War II,
British pacifism, Anglo-Irish literature, children's literature, imprints of
the Hogarth Press, modern Canadian poetry, imprints of Canadian
publishers, and more than 4,000 Canadian pamphlets.
Poster from World War II collection
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