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Allen, Walter Ernest, (1911-1995), novelist, literary critic, broadcaster

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Surname: Allen
Forenames: Walter Ernest
Gender: Male
Date: 1911-1995
History: Literary critic, journalist and author; expert on English authors of the nineteenth century.
Biography: ODNB link for Allen, Walter Ernest (1911-1995) Novelist Literary Critic and Broadcaster
References: Who Was Who; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275875 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P161363 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1948-1950: Robert Adams: 1949 tour to British Guiana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, lecturing on...
The National Archives, Kew
BW 83/8
2
1930s-1995: records incl literary manuscripts, personal corresp from literary friends and writers, L P Hartley, Robert Graves, J B Priestley, Rebecca West, carbon typescript of 'Blind Man's Ditch', copies of published articles, reviews and broadcasts, poetry, other writings, contracts
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
MS2
NRA 42276 Allen

See Annual Return 2002, 2010
3
1934: letters (26) to Walter Brierley
Derbyshire Record Office
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
4
1960: corresp and statements rel to the trial of Lady Chatterley;s Lover
Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections
DM 1679
NRA 39438