![]() ![]() ![]() The purpose of this short article is to describe – and, for the first time, to catalogue – what we found there.īurgess was hired by the Yorkshire Post as a fiction reviewer in January 1961. Like most English newspapers, the Yorkshire Post has no published index, but a few months ago I visited the Brotherton (with Russell Thorne, my research assistant) in search of Anthony Burgess’s "lost" journalism from the early 1960s. The Brotherton Library also holds a complete collection of back numbers of The Yorkshire Post, the most significant regional newspaper of the North of England, whose editorial offices are in Leeds. Yet beneath the Brotherton’s impressive dome stands a remarkable set of archives, including the private papers of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the records of the Independent Labour Party (among whose prominent members were George Orwell and Graham Greene). ![]() The university buildings, including the magnificent library, are loftily dismissed as "a bad moment" by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in his architectural gazetteer, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire West Riding (second edition, Penguin, 1967, p. The circular Brotherton Library, built in 1936, stands at the heart of the city campus of the University of Leeds. ![]() Anthony Burgess In The Yorkshire Post By Andrew Biswell ![]()
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