2006-2007 James M. Osborn Post-doctoral Research Fellow in British Studies
Michael Londry

Michael Londry completed his doctorate in English literature at the University of Oxford as a
Commonwealth Scholar. His thesis was a critical edition of the works of the eighteenth century
poet and feminist Elizabeth Tollet. Recently, at the University of Alberta as a
Postdoctoral Fellow, he has researched a newly-surfaced manuscript volume that contains
the text of the extensive commonplace book of Jane Collier, author of one of the bestknown
prose satires of the mid eighteenth century, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously
Tormenting (1753). His articles have appeared in the TLS, The Library, Harvard Review,
and the Oxford DNB, and his poems in Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets and The
May Oxford and Cambridge Anthology of Poetry, as well as in journals in Canada and
England. His long poem Aubade was published separately in 1999, having won the
Hartley Prize at Balliol the previous year. In 2001 he was awarded the Richard Ellmann
Prize by Oxford's Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon.

Dr. Londry's research project at Beinecke is titled "The Hilda Londry Project: Women &
Manuscript, 1700-1900." The Hilda Londry Project is the first research project devoted
to conducting a systematic analysis of a large, representative group of manuscript
volumes containing English literature by or relating to women of the period 1700-1900.
The Hilda Londry Collection is Dr. Londry's own collection, which he began forming
during his doctoral studies at Oxford, and it holds over 2,900 manuscript poems or
portions of poems. Dr. Londry will spend research time at the Beinecke comparing the
manuscripts in his collection to manuscripts in the Osborn Collection. The Hilda Londry
Project proposes to substantially supplement the knowledge of women's writing provided
by such recent projects as the Oxford DNB, the Orlando Project at the University of
Alberta, and the Perdita Project at Nottingham.

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