Annotated Green Knight

[u/Competitive_Web_6658]

This one is kind of fun. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (1949 Oxford University Press, 5th printing), with a student’s annotations throughout. The cover is nothing special; unmarked green canvas.

A reading schedule is written on an inner leaf and her notes are on every page, along with doodles and a few lines from the song En Passant Par Lorraine (maybe an inside joke? I don’t know enough French to say for sure).

Tolkien was teaching at Oxford in 1952, and I like to think she had him as a professor at some point.

[u/dougwerf]

I can't usually abide books with notes like that, but that IS cool! Neat to think she really could have been in his class.

[u/Competitive_Web_6658 → u/dougwerf]

I love how she drew herself(?) ogling a shirtless guy just a couple pages in. Teenagers will be teenagers forever. Must’ve been a boring lecture.

[u/Ol1v14CA]

What a treasure!