Established in 1901 by bequest of Sarah Dunn Jones Bancroft, widow of Professor Bancroft, and gift of the Honorable F. A. Gaskill, Class of 1866, to be used to purchase books in English literature. Professor Bancroft was class of 1859 and on the Brown faculty from 1868-1890.

Materials purchased with this fund include:

» The N-Town play : drama and liturgy in medieval East Anglia

» A Katherine Mansfield chronology

» Poetry and ecology in the age of Milton and Marvell

» Conversion and reform in the novel in the 1790s : a revolution of opinions

» Writing the empire : Robert Southey and Romantic colonialism

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