Collection Level Description: Papers of Angelina Parker
Reference: MSS. Eng. lang. d. 69-76
Title: Papers of Angelina Parker
Dates of Creation: 19th-20th cent.
Extent: 8 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Scope and Content
Papers of Angelina Parker on Oxfordshire dialect, consisting of:
- Oxfordshire dialect dictionary, compiled by Angelina Parker 'from the English Dialect Dictionary
[by J. Wright], with many additional words ... collected by me'
- Collections of games, nursery rhymes and pronunciations, with extracts from talks by Mrs Parker, cuttings
and notes
- Letters to Mrs Parker, with a few to her daughter, 1878-1926
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were given to the Library by Angelina Parker's daughter in 1928.
Access Conditions
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a
valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).
Further Information
Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the
Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 40461-8.
Access Points
English language | Dialects | England | Oxfordshire | Dictionaries
Parker | Angelina | fl 1878-1926
Oxfordshire (England)
Enquiries
Transformation from XML to HTML by Lawrence Mielniczuk
09 June 2011