Memory Maps reading list

A selection of books to inform and inspire:

Addison, William, Epping Forest (1977)

Allingham, Marjorie, crime novelist; many books set in Essex

M T Anderson, 'Introduction to Edward Benlowes, "A Glance at the Glories of Sacred Friendship"', on University of Birmingham 'Philological Museum' website: http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/library.html

Appleton, Jay, The Symbolism of Habitat (1990), The Poetry of Habitat (1978)

Baring Gould, Sabine, Mehala (1892)

Baker, J A, The Peregrine (2005)

'The Battle of Maldon' (991AD)

Bennett, Arnold, Journals (1932-3)

Benham, Charles, Essex Ballads (1895)

Benham, Harvey, The Last Stronghold of Sailing (1948). Also, other books on sailing

Benham, Harvey, Essex Gold: Fortunes of the Essex Oystermen (1993) 

Benlowes, Edward, Sphinx Theologica (London, 1626)

Benlowes, Edward, Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice: A Divine Poem, (London, 1652)

Benlowes, Edward, A Glance at the Glories of Sacred Friendship (London, 1657)

Bensusan, S L, Many books set in Essex marshes, about 1930-1950

Berridge, Jesse, The Stronghold (1926)

Betjeman, John, 'Essex' (poem) 

Blythe, Ronald, Word From Wormingford trilogy (1997)

Brown, Arthur, Essex People 1750-1900 (1972)

Browne, Thomas, Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial or A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk (1658), ed R H A Robbins (Oxford, 1972)

Brydges, Sir Egerton, Restituta; Titles, Extracts and Characters of Old Books in the English Language (4 Vols) (London, 1814-16)

Butler, Samuel, Characters and Passages from Notebooks, ed. A R Walker, (Cambridge, 1908)

Clare, John, Nightingale at High Beach, London v. Epping Forest, A Walk in the Forest. Exact dates unknown but Clare was in Essex from 1837-1841

Clark, Tom, Who Is Sylvia? (1979)

Cole, Martina, Various crime novels

Crabbe, George, St Oysth

Davie, Donald, Essex Poems (1969)

Defoe, Daniel, Moll Flanders (1722), Tour Through The Eastern Counties (1722)

Ellman, Lucy, Man Or Mango? (1998)

Erskine, Barbara, Hiding from the Light (2003) and other novels.

Finch, Jack

Fuller, Thomas, The History of the University of Cambridge, (London,1659)

Gifford, Nick (Keith Brooke), Piggies (2003), Flesh and Blood (2004)

Grieve, Hilda, The Great Tide (1959)

Haggard, Rider, Rural England (1902)

Hope, T M, Essex Pie (1952) Anthology of pieces about Essex, illustrated by Essex artist John O'Connor

Hughes, Carlyon, History of Harwich Harbour (1939)

Jenkins, Harold. Edward Benlowes (1602-1676): Biography of a Minor Poet. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1952)

Johnson, Nicholas, Cleave (2002)

Kane, Sarah, Playwright

Kastor, Frank, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, (Boston, 1978)

Kilworth, Garry, Witchwater Country (1987), Spiral Winds(1987)

Levertov, Denise, 'A Map of the Western Part of Essex', in Poems 1960-1967 (1983)

Lindsay, Jack, Fanfrolico and After (1962). Classical scholar, translator, novelist, lived in Castle Hedingham latterly and elsewhere in Essex

Liddell, Bill and Liddell, Sue, Imagined Land: Essex in Poetry and Prose (1996)

Ludgater, Alfred, Mistress Of Broad Marsh (1924)

Mays, Spike, Ruben's Corner (1969)

Mead, Isaac, The Life Story of an Essex Lad (1923)

David Mellor, Gill Saunders and Patrick Wright, Recording Britain: A Pictorial Domesday of Pre-War Britain, (London, 1990)

Milner, John, Kenneth Rowntree, (London, 2002)

Morrison, Arthur, Cunning Murrel (1900)

Moss, Roger, The Game of the Pink Pagoda (1986)

Niemeyer, Carl, 'New Light on Edward Benlowes', in, Review of English Studies, Vol. 12, No.45, January 1936, pp.31-41

Raban, Jonathan, Coasting (2003)

Ransome, Arthur

St John's College, Cambridge website: http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books

Scott, Miranda, The Boudica Trilogy (2006)

Smith, David, No Rain in those Clouds (1943)

Thompson Sizer, Kate, The Wooing of St Osyth (1893)

Thompson, June

Townsend Warner, Sylvia, The True Heart (1929)

West, Rebecca, 'Mr Setty and Mr Hume from A Train of Powder' (l955), in Samuel Hynes (ed), Rebecca West: A Celebration (l977)

Wheatley, Dennis, The Devil Rides Out (1934)

Wells, H G, Mr Britling Sees It Through (1916)

Winterton, Ralph (trans), The Considerations of Drexelius Upon Eternitie (London, 1654)

Woodhouse, Martin, Tree Frog (1966)

Worpole, Ken, Here Comes the Sun (2000) or 350 Miles: An Essex Journey (2005)

Wright, Patrick. The River The Thames in Our Time (l999)