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It seems that Toynbee had been assisting his wife in her literary endeavours for many years, and after her death he completed her three unfinished volumes of letters from
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Reminiscences Written by Mr. Horace Walpole in 1788 for the Amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, Now First Printed in Full from the Original Ms.
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to Walpole, published in 1912. He also edited the three supplementary volumes to her edition of Walpole's Letters, published 1918–1925.
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The current Paget Toynbee Lecturer in Italian Medieval Studies at Balliol College (as of 2024) is Professor Elena Lombardi.
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In the years immediately before his death, Toynbee donated manuscripts, papers and correspondence relating to Dante and to
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in 1881 and Japan and Australia 1886–87, he decided to concentrate on literary research and writing. Beginning with
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The forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1926
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Britain's tribute to Dante in literature and art; a chronological record of 540 years (c. 1380-1920)
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British Academy (Dante Commemoration 1921). London: Humphrey Milton, Oxford University Press (1921)
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He was the honorary secretary of the Oxford Dante Society from 1916 to 1928; he was elected
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of Balliol in 1922, and later donated some books to the college library. He was awarded an
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The Paget Toynbee lectures on Dante have taken place annually in Oxford since 1995.
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The thirty-eighth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1919
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The twenty-fourth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1905
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The thirty-sixth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1917
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The twenty-ninth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1910
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Toynbee married Helen Wrigley (19 October 1868–18 April 1910) on 23 August 1894 in
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A Historical Grammar of the French Language: from the French of Auguste Brachet
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Seventeenth annual report of the Dante Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1898
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has described Toynbee as 'the most influential Dantean scholar of his time'.
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Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante
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in 1901. After spending some years as a private tutor, including periods in
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and other Oxford libraries. Further papers were bequeathed by him in 1932.
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A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante
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and his wife Harriet. One of nine children, he was the brother of the
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886
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language and literature, he turned to Dante, compiling the index to
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The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771)
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4th, revised & enlarged ed. London: Methuen & Co. (1910)
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With Notes and Index by Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1924)
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Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)
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Lettres de la Marquise du Deffand à Horace Walpole (1766–1780)
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Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
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This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a
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Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures. 1995–2003
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Toynbee also provided thousands of quotations for the
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Martin McLaughlin and Michelangelo Zaccarello (eds.)
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Robert Hollander in 'Introduction' to Paget Toynbee,
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Fisher Unwin. pp. 116–7. 713: 711: 709: 707: 705: 320:Specimens of Old French (IX–XV Centuries) 196:Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford 958:, University of Oxford, 21 January 2009. 811: 809: 551:Annual Report of the Dante Society, 1899 18: 837: 763:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 717: 282: 98:in January 1874, aged 19 where he read 1117: 922: 856:"The Archives and Special Collections" 760:(May 2006). "Toynbee, Paget Jackson". 752: 750: 748: 746: 744: 742: 740: 702: 438:Oxford: Clarendon Press (1920). Editor 220: (bound with Vol. 3) •  1125:Academics of the University of Oxford 806: 1062: 796:(New York: Dover Publication, 2005) 198:. (16 vols. 1903-5, Supplement, ed. 102:; B.A. 1878, M.A. 1880; he gained a 841:Haileybury College Past and Present 756: 737: 631:, tome 39 n°153, 1910. pp. 114-116. 616:. 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Walter Stoneman
FBA
Dante
Robert Hollander
Wimbledon, London
otolaryngologist
Joseph Toynbee
economic historian
Arnold Toynbee
Grace Frankland
universal historian
Arnold J. Toynbee
Jocelyn Toynbee
Haileybury College
Balliol College, Oxford
Classics
D. Litt
Cape Colony
Old French
Edward Moore
C. M. Ady
Fellow of the British Academy
Honorary Fellow
honorary degree
LLD
University of Edinburgh
Oxford English Dictionary
Burnham, Buckinghamshire
Horace Walpole

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