Love, Harold Halford Russell

Positions summary

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of English, 1964-2002; Emeritus Professor 2003.

Biography

Harold Love was born in Brisbane on 4 August 1937 and died in Melbourne on 12 August 2007. He qualified with BA(Hons) from the University of Queensland, and gained a PhD from Oxford in 1964. Appointed as a lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in English at Monash (1964-1973), then Reader and Professor of English from 1973-2003. Professor Love was Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library 1986-87; and a Member of Advisory/Editorial Boards for - Australasian Drama Studies; Academy Editions; Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth Century English Literature and Thought; English Literary Manuscripts 1100-1700; Verdi and His Major Contemporaries; Oxford Companion to Music in Australia; Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700. Major publications include: The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse (1968) Jonathan Swift Collection (1969) The Golden Age of Australian Opera (1981) The Australian Stage (1984) The Works of Thomas Southerne (1988) Attributing Authorship (2002) Plays, Poems and Miscellaneous Writings Associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (with R. Hume; 2007)

Papers

Correspondence 1959-2007
Miscellaneous collection arranged in roughly chronological order, with a separate alpha run covering the 1990s.

Manuscript material 1963-2006
Mss printed on A4 and held in spring binders, the earliest of which are drafts for Prof. Love's doctoral dissertation (Cambridge, 1964). Also included are unpublished playscripts and poetry; notes for addresses; offprints of published journal articles; and CD copies of the Restoration Theatre Song Archive, and the Source Index to English Clandestine Satire.

Music scores 1981-2006
Collection of sheet music composed or arranged by Prof. Love (many for recorder or viol which he played).

Research material related to early Melbourne theatre 1970-1993

Research material related to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1980-2000

Research material related to works of Thomas Southerne 1965-1985

Research notebooks 1960-2005
Series of note books used by Prof. Love (and occasionally his assistants) in the course of research in libraries chiefly in Australia and Britain.

Staff Drama Group records 1964-1967
Prof. Love was an active member of the group as performer, musical arranger and director. Series includes posters, handouts and programs, Newsletters for 1966-1967; and several unidentified black and white photographs of a performance.

Teaching files 1959-2005
Files related to courses taught within the English department at Monash 1964-2003. File contents include lecture and seminar notes, course handouts and booklets. Also included are files related to lectures given at University of New England, 1959; in department of Music at Monash, 1992; and in Britain and United States, 2003-2005.

Working files 1960-2007
Papers associated with published articles, reviews and contributions to composite volumes. Files may include research materials, draft and final papers, correspondence, and agreements with publishers.

See also
The Independent: Professor Harold Love

Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Harold Halford Russell Love

Australian Academy of the Humanities, Harold Love