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The Sussex Poets: a lecture delivered at Hastings, by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., published 1842 (30 pp., published by the author) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Andrew Borde, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.27-34) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Charles Crocker, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.87-88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Thomas May, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.150-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

John Fletcher, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.175-176) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Thomas Otway, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.203-207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

William Collins, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.220-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

William Hay, M.P., by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.235-240) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Gregory Martin, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.240-241) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

John Taylor, the "Water Poet's" Adventures on the Sussex Coast, by Unknown Author(s), published 1866 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 18, article, pp.137-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2103] & The Keep [LIB/500237] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Memoirs of Mrs. Oldfield, by her Son, and Notices of the Neighbourhood of Oldfield Lawn, from 1785 to 1808; with an Account of the Author, by Rev. Frederick Henry Arnold, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, article, pp.83-98) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Paintings in Hardham Church, published 1899 (article, West Sussex Gazette) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5378]

The Play Acted by the 'Tipteers' at West Wittering, Chichester, by James L. C. Boger, M.A., published 1901 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 44, article, pp.178-183) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2129] & The Keep [LIB/500262] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Poet of Coldwaltham, by Kenneth Povey, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 11, article, pp.481-484) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Stanley Cook. Poet of the Sussex Downs, by H. M. Walbrook, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 1, article, pp.30-31) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Clement Lambert: A Sussex Artist, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 2, article, pp.64-66) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

A Forgotten Sussex traveller & Author: Edward Daniel Clarke, by Harold Van Tromp, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 10, article, pp.466-469) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Two Sussex Amateur Artists: Hercules Brabazon and Augustus Hare, by Admiral B. M. Chambers, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 12, article, pp.555-558) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

A Modern Sussex Artist: Ethel L Rawlins, by Lydia Lidstone, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 3, article, pp.152-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500139]

An Old Poet talks of Sussex: Michael Drayton, by Harold Van Tromp, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 7, article, pp.453-455) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

The Art of William Lee-Hankey, by James Laver, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 7, article, pp.500-501) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Leonard Mascall, Author and Angler, by A. R. Horwood, F.L.S., published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 9, article, pp.609-610) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Some Women Artists, by Lady Kate, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 11, article, p.804) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

The Dickens Fellowship in Sussex, by F. J. Hansor, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 12, article, pp.851-853) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Harry Bush, a Sussex artist, by M. Newton, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 1, article, p.24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

Habberton Lulham, Sussex Poet, by Lydia Lidstone, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 7, article, pp.543-546) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Thomas May: A Sussex Dramatist, by H. Van Tromp, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 2, article, pp.101-105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

An Artist in Ironwork [George Etherton], by C. E. Tritton, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 2, article, pp.110-111) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

Sussex Drawings in the Bodleian , by L. F. Salzman, published November 1932 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 4, article, pp.74-76) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Some Literary Associations of Worthing, by A. J. Waterfield, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 2, article, pp.96-98) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

A Humourist's Sketches: Some Sussex Scenes a Hundred Years Ago [by John Orlando Parry], by Cyril Bruyn Andrews, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 1, article, pp.30-34; no. 2, pp.123-124; no. 3, pp.178-180; no. 4, pp.266-268; no. 5, pp.329-331, no. 6, pp.420-421; no. 7, pp.498-499; no. 8, pp.552-553; no. 9, pp.602-604; no. 10, pp.672-674; no. 11, pp.748-749; no. 12, pp.832-833) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Sussex Novels of Alfred Ollivant, by Gilbert Pass, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 1, article, pp.35-38) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Sussex Books of Tickner Edwardes, by Gilbert Pass, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 3, article, pp.181-184; no. 4, pp.255-259) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Sussex Novels of Ernest Raymond, by Gilbert Pass, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 6, article, pp.395-399; no. 7, pp.465-469) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Sussex Books of Arthur Beckett, by Gilbert Pass, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 8, article, pp.535-539) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Sussex Novels of W. M. Thackeray, by Gilbert Pass, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 9, article, pp.609-613) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Literary Associations in Hastings, by N. Scarlyn Wilson, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 11, article, pp.730-733) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Sussex Literature of Place, by W. Rentall Read, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 1, article, pp.44-47) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

Vincent Brown: A Note on a Sussex Novelist, by H. M. Walbrook, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 2, article, pp.101-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

Sussex Recalls a Great Historian [Edward Gibbon], by G. R. A. Dick, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 7, article, pp.431-433) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

William Daniell's Views of Sussex in 1823, by J. G. Garratt, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 10, article, pp.658-667) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

Medieval art in Sussex, by C. H. Blakiston, published 1946 (pamphlet, 10 pp., Sussex Churches Art Council, Brighton) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5308] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Sussex Bedside Anthology, compiled by Margaret Goldsworthy, published 1950 (619 pp., Bognor Regis: The Arundel Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2831][Lib 12403] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is a comprehensive anthology of Sussex lore, a first-rate "browsing book" both for the Native and the Foreigner whose "heart is there". The Sussex-loving poets are perhaps a loyal rather than a great company but the reader will find many old friends among them - Kipling, Belloc and others - and probably meet several new ones. There is much in the book besides poetry. In fact, there is something for everybody, historical, geographical and antiquarian information, extracts from old county records, epitaphs, letters and diaries kept by Sussex characters in remote and more robust times. There is even (in keeping with the modern convention) a quiz. Miss Margaret Goldsworthy is to be warmly congratulated on the extent and success of her researches. The book is handsomely produced and fully and carefully indexed.

Festival of Sussex: Music, Drama, Art, published 1951 (pamphlet, Festival of Sussex) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5270]

Festival exhibition of work by Sussex artists past and present, published 1951 (16 pp., Hove: Hove Museum of Art)

Sussex Drawings by John Buckler, by L. F. S. [L. F. Salzman], published November 1952 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 11 & 12, note, pp.257-258) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

It's me, O Lord! An abstract & brief chronicle of some of the life with some of the opinions of A. E. Coppard, by A. E. Coppard, published 1957 (251 pp., London: Methuen) accessible at: British Library

Autobiography of Folkestone born author, with chapters on life in Brighton in the 1880s, and later his life there in employment and as an author

Sussex authors today: being a checklist of authors born in Sussex together with brief particulars of authors born elsewhere who are currently working or residing in Sussex - an assemblage of more than 620 authors together with their addresses, and (where applicable) their pseudonyms, by G. Handley-Taylor, published 1973 (xiv + 113 pp., EddisonPress Ltd, ISBN-10: 0856490113 & ISBN-13: 9780856490118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5594] & The Keep [LIB/502239] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Poetical Directories, by M. J. Leppard, published August 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 19, article, p.96, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare, by Distad N. Merrill, published 1979 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7211]

The new art library at Brighton Polytechnic, by Paul Lavigueur, published 1980 in Art Libraries Journal (vol. 5, no. 2, article, pp.11-21)

Eric Gill: man of flesh and spirit, by Malcolm Yorke, published 1981 (275 pp., London: Constable, ISBN-10: 0094637407 & ISBN-13: 9780094637405) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Shayer Family of Painters, by Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, published 1982 (160 pp., A & C Black Publishers ltd., ISBN-10: 0853170924 & ISBN-13: 9780853170921) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11179][Lib 12369] & West Sussex Libraries

Two portraits by Van Dyck identified, by Malcolm Rogers, published April 1982 in Burlington Magazine (vol. 124, no. 949, article, pp.235-238)

At Arundel Castle.

John Cowper Powys's Sussex, by Bernard Jones, published 1983 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8830]

Artists of Harting and Surrounding Villages, by Gwen Bilibin, published 1985 (pamphlet, 63 pp., Harting Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9163] & The Keep [LIB/502802] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Writers in Sussex, by Bernard Smith and Peter Haas, published 4 April 1985 (120 pp., Redcliffe Press Ltd., ISBN-10: 0905459970 & ISBN-13: 9780905459974) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9353] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Bungalow Town: Theatre and Film Colony, by N. E. B. Wolters, published 1 October 1985 (pamphlet, 64 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0951101900 & ISBN-13: 9780951101902) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9454] & West Sussex Libraries

Heywood Hardy, 1842-1933, by Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, published 1987 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9726]

Chichester Artists, 1530-1900, by Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, published October 1987 (56 pp., Canterbury: Bladon Press, ISBN-10: 0951281402 & ISBN-13: 9780951281406) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9881] & West Sussex Libraries

Unknown to History or Fame: Collection of Prose, Poetry and Photographs from 19th Century Walberton, West Sussex, by Brenda Dixon, published 1 June 1992 (128 pp., Woodfield Publishing, ISBN-10: 1873203136 & ISBN-13: 9781873203132) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11753] & West Sussex Libraries

Keats at Chichester, by Amy Clampitt, published 1993 in New England Review (vol. 15, no. 1, article, pp.111-113)

The poet John Keats (1795-1821) stayed in Chichester in 1819, and began writing 'The Eve of St Agnes' there, inspired by the Cathedral.

The Invisible Man, by Elizabeth Chesters, published April 1993 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 5 Number 3, article, pp.27-30, Spring 1993) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15968]

H G Wells' story is supposedly set in Iping near Midhurst. This article looks at the origins of the places mentioned in the book and whether or not they were based in reality.

Some Aspects of Art at Pallant House Gallery, by Pat Saunders, published 1994 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12286]

Public art in West Sussex, by Susan Potter, Clare Jones and Martin O'Neill, published 1995 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 086260334X & ISBN-13: 9780862603342) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Henry Fryer Tidey, 1814-1872, Poet & Artist, by Merle G. Rafferty, published March 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 5, article, pp.177-179) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Discovery of details of the works of Henry Fryer Tidey, one of the eleven children of John Tidey (1773-1849), poet and artist.

Hans Feibusch: Chichester and Northampton, by Marcy Leavitt Bourne, published January 1996 in Burlington Magazine (vol. 138, no. 1114, article, pp.46-47)

German artist (1898-1998] who settled in Chichester.

Two arts and crafts interiors by Aston Webb, by Ian Dungavell, published 1997 in Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850-the Present (vol. 21, article, pp.103-115)

One of the interiors is Paddockhurst, near Turner's Hill, which in 1933 became Worth Abbey

Adrian Hill 1895-1977, by Joy Collingwood, published April 1997 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 9 Number 3, article, pp.22-27, Spring 1997) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15969]

Short biography of Adrian Hill, artist and BBC presenter of 'Television Sketch Club' from 1953-1962, and who lived for many years at Midhurst.

Have you ever seen a fairy funeral? , by E V Lucas, published April 1997 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 9 Number 3, article, pp.37-38, Spring 1997) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15969]

Extract from Highways and Byways of Sussex by E V Lucas. Short article about the life of William Blake, who lived in Felpham from 1800-1803. Blake was interested in all things spiritual and supernatural. He was tried and acquitted of sedition at Chichester in 1803.

Ralph Gordon Ellis, 1885-1963, of Arundel: Designer and Painter of Inn Signs - A Biography, by Margaret G. Gowler, published 1 December 1997 (194 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953171108 & ISBN-13: 9780953171101) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

From Cuckfield to Camden Town: The story of artist Robert Bevan (1865-1925) , by Frances Stenlake, published 1999 (64 pp., Trustees of Cuckfield Museum, ISBN-10: 0953539601 & ISBN-13: 9780953539604) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501548] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Statin 'n' Velvet Goatcher, by Roger Goacher, published June 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 6, article, pp.211-212) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508821] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

In 1867, when 15 year-old Philip William Goatcher, son of Philip Goatcher from Petworth, jumped ship in Melbourne, none could have predicted that he was heading for a legendary career in Australian theatre.

Eric James Mellon: Ceramic Artist, edited by Paul Foster, published 29 March 2000 (Otter memorial paper, 112 pp., Chichester: University College, ISBN-10: 0948765887 & ISBN-13: 9780948765889) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Re-presenting Fanny Cornforth: The makings of an historical identity, by Anne Drewery, Julian Moore and Christopher Whittick, published 2001 in British Art Journal (article, pp.3-15)

Fanny Cornforth (1835-1909), born Steyning, died Chichester, was both model and mistress of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet.

Re-presenting Fanny Cornforth: The makings of an historical identity, by Anne Drewery, Julian Moore, and Christopher Whittick, published 2001 in British Art Journal (article, pp.3-15)

Fanny Cornforth (1835-1909) was born at Steyning and died in Chichester. She was an artists' model for pre-Raphaelite painters, and was also Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mistress.

The family circle and career of William Burrell, antiquary, by John H. Farrant, published 2001 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 139, article, pp.169-185) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14916] & The Keep [LIB/500292] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In the 1770s and '80s Dr William Burrell (1732-96) formed the antiquarian collection which underpinned the Sussex county histories of 1815-35. Born into the mercantile community of London with connections to the great joint stock and insurance companies and to government, he made his career in the capital as a civil lawyer and an Excise Commissioner. He never lived in Sussex, and his researches may have been prompted by his bachelor uncle who, with his father, used their commercial wealth to buy back much of the ancestral estate in Sussex and who built for himself a country seat at West Grinstead.

Lord Egremont and Flaxman's "St Michael overcoming Satan', by Philip McEvansoneya, published June 2001 in Burlington Magazine (vol. 143, no. 1179, article, pp.351-359)

Sculpture by John Flaxman (1755-1826), made about 1826, at Petworth House.

Martina Thomas 1925-1995 Painter, edited by Paul Foster, published 2003 (pamphlet, 96 pp., Chichester: University College, ISBN-10: 0948765933 & ISBN-13: 9780948765933) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15068] & West Sussex Libraries

Small, but perfectly formed? Art and Design Books in Brighton, by Mary Nixon, published 2003 in Art Libraries Journal (vol. 28, no. 4, article, pp.27-30)

The Visual Arts in Regency Brighton and Hove, by Jill Seddon, published 2003 in The Georgian Group Journal (vol. XIII, article, pp.273-280)

They Wrote about Sussex. A collection of biographical studies, by Richard Knowles, published 1 April 2003 (126 pp., Country Books, ISBN-10: 1898941815 & ISBN-13: 9781898941811) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15154] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

"No County in England has been more written about than Sussex." That was the opinion of Arthur Beckett when he launched The Sussex County Magazine in December 1926. A decade later George Aitchison wrote: "Of the making of Sussex books there in no end." There is still no end to the making of Sussex books, more of them appear every year, and some like The South Downs by Peter Brandon, which was published in 1998, seem sure to take their place among the county's classics. Every collector of Sussex books will have his own ideas about which books are local classics and their opinions will differ. There are, nonetheless, a small number of books that you might expect to find in any significant collection. These are books like The Spirit of the Downs by Arthur Beckett, The Shepherds of Sussex by Barclay Wills and A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect by the Rev. W.D. Parish; books that have stood the test of time without losing any of their appeal. This volume provides biographical sketches of the authors of these works, highlighting how they were connected with the county.
Some of the writers were, as one might expect, born and bred in Sussex, but some came to the county as children, some came later in life and one was only ever a visitor. Some were concerned to record a local way of life that was disappearing and some sought to uncover the past, while others simply celebrated their emotional attachment to the county by trying to explain what made it so special for them. All gave their work a personal stamp, an originality that sets it apart from run of the mill county guides and memoirs.

Chichester & the Arts 1944-2004: A Celebration, edited by Paul Foster, published 2004 (232 pp., Chichester: University College, ISBN-10: 094876581X & ISBN-13: 9780948765810) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Design Archive at Brighton: serendipity and strategy, by Jonathan M. Woodham, published 2004 in Art Libraries Journal (vol. 29, no. 3, article, pp.15-21)

The Brighton School: George Albert Smith, James Williamson and the early development of film in Brighton & Hove, 1895-1901, by William Francis Drayton Gray, 2004 at University of Brighton (Ph.D. thesis)

This study is devoted to the work of two early English film-makers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the "Brighton School" and positioned as being at the forefront of Britain's contribution to the birth of film language. The years 1895 to 1901 provide this study with its focus as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology and a new form of entertainment. Smith (1864-1959) established his film factory at Hove in 1897 and from here produced his major films. For this work, he drew upon his knowledge of contemporary music hall, theatre, pantomime, popular literature, mesmerism, the magic lantern and the work of other film-makers. Out of this context, Smith made two very significant edited films: The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) and Grandma's Reading Glass (1900). Williamson (1856-1933) drew on similar impulses for his films as well as photography and current events such as the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion. His films of 1900 and 1901 were inspired by Smith's concept of the edited sequence and, as a result, he produced his first multi-shot narrative films, Attack on a China Mission (1900) and Fire! (1901). This work by Smith and Williamson provided their contemporary film-makers with a new understanding of the edited film - a concept which would enable film-makers to move beyond the paradigm of theatre and into a consciousness determined by the developing nature of cinematography itself.

Depictions of Georgina: Aspects of Social Identity in Two Portraits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, by Christopher Whittick and Julian Moore , published 2005 in British Art Journal (vol. 6, no. 1, article)

Georgina was a Brighton woman painted by Rossetti]

Stunner: the fall and rise of Fanny Cornforth, by Kirsty Stonell Walker, published 2006 (286 pp., Lulu Publishing, ISBN-10: 1475229070 & ISBN-13: 9781475229073)

Fanny Cornforth was a Victorian supermodel whose face epitomised the vision and life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth reveals a woman who flouted Victorian rules and fought against a society designed to stifle her passion and personality. Through previously unpublished letters and little-known portraits, enter the world of a beguiling thief and a seductive liar, who assisted in founding one of America's foremost art collections.

David Goodman Artist and Essayist: Chichester Modern Artists Two, edited by Paul Foster, published 7 October 2006 (72 pp., Chichester: University College, ISBN-10: 0948765984 & ISBN-13: 9780948765988) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Sussex Writers and Artists, by Edward Lucie-Smith, published 11 April 2007 (96 pp., Snake River Press, ISBN-10: 1906022011 & ISBN-13: 9781906022013) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Philip William Cole 1884-1964: Master and Artist of Hastings, Sussex, by Diane Cole, published 2009 (22 pp., Caudle Publishing, ISBN-10: 0956320805 & ISBN-13: 9780956320803) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501651] & East Sussex Libraries

Philip William Cole, A.R.C.A.,R.B.A.,A.W.G. was a gifted and talented artist who spent most of his life in Hastings, Sussex. He was principal of Hastings School of Art, succeeding Michael Sullivan, and a contempory of Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Leslie Badham.

Art and design at Brighton 1859-2009: from arts and manufactures to the creative and cultural industries, edited by Philippa Lyon and Jonathan Woodham, published 16 January 2009 (408 pp., Brighton: University of Brighton, ISBN-10: 1905593589 & ISBN-13: 9781905593583) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502262] & British Library

The anniversary book examines the role that the School of Art, now the Faculty of Arts & Architecture, has played since it was first established in rooms within the Brighton Royal Pavilion in 1859. It maps the development of the School against a variety of significant regional, national and international contexts, including interactions with local educational authorities, changes in art and design education and the symbiotic relationship between design and industry.
Features on a selection of staff and alumni of the School are a major part of the book, as is an account of the School's dynamic and integral role in the social and cultural life of Brighton and the South East over the last 150 years: from the art students' seaside pageants in the 1920s to alternative performance at the Zap Club.

Evolving archival interfaces and the University of Brighton Design Archives, by S. Breakell, published 2010 in Art Libraries Journal (vol. 35, no. 4, article, pp.12-17)

Another form of her genius: Lee Miller in the kitchen, by Becky E. Conekin, published 2010 in Gastronomica (vol. 10, no. 1, article, pp.50-60)

Lee Miller (1907-1977), the noted photographer, as a cook at her home, Farley Farm House, Chiddingly.

Swallowed by the Sea; Artists, antiquaries and Middleton's lost church; Studies in the history of Felpham and Middleton no. 2, by Winifred D. Abbott, published July 2010 (48 pp., Felpham and Middleton Local History Workshop, ISBN-10: 0951648241 & ISBN-13: 9780951648247) accessible at: Felpham and Middleton Local History Workshop & West Sussex Libraries

Local Artist Henry Browning, by Tony Turner, published 2012 (Nuthurst Local History Society) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Any Sawyer of Ditchling: Artist, Eccentric and Lady of Letters, by Anne Parfitt-King, published 1 November 2013 (189 pp., Country Books, ISBN-10: 1906789886 & ISBN-13: 9781906789886) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict, by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Paul Quinn, published 17 September 2014 (286 pp., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history, religious and intellectual history and English literature to offer new perspectives on early-modern Sussex. Essays discuss a wide variety of topics: the coherence of a county divided between East and West and Catholic and Protestant; the art and literary collections of Chichester cathedral; communities of Catholic gentry; Protestant martyrdom; aristocratic education; writing, preaching and exile; local funerary monuments; and the progresses of Elizabeth I. Contributors include Michael Questier; Nigel Llewellyn; Caroline Adams; Karen Coke; and Andrew Foster. The collection concludes with an Afterword by Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester). This volume extends work done in the 1960s and 70s on early-modern Sussex, drawing on new work on county and religious identities, and setting it into a broad national context. The result is a book that not only tells us much about Sussex, but which also has a great deal to offer all scholars working in the field of local and regional history, and religious change in England as a whole.

Two Sussex Authors: Thomas Drant and Anthony Copley, by Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield, published 17 September 2014 in Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict (Chapter 2., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

Lambert Barnard, Bishop Shirborn's 'Paynter', by Karen Coke, published 17 September 2014 in Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict (Chapter 3., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

"Your daughter, most devoted": The Sententious Writings of Mary Arundel, Duchess of Norfolk, Given to the Twelfth Earl of Arundel, by Elizabeth McCutcheon, published 17 September 2014 in Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict (Chapter 6., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

Public Sculpture of Sussex, by Jill Seddon, Peter Seddon and Anthony McIntosh, published 1 November 2014 (xviii + 222 pp., Liverpool University Press, ISBN-10: 1781381259 & ISBN-13: 9781781381250) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508708] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is the 17th volume in the series the Public Sculpture of Britain, part of the PMSA National Recording Project, which will eventually cover the whole of the country. The introduction considers the ways in which the rural and urban landscapes of Sussex, from market town, rural village and country estate, to city, major seaside resort and new town development, are reflected in the county s public sculptures. The historical period covered ranges from the allegedly pre-historic (the Long Man of Wilmington) to the present day (the most recent entry is Maggi Hambling s The Resurrection Spirit, 2013). There is a high proportion of nineteenth- century sculptures, including significant works by John Flaxman, Michael Rysbrack, Frances Chantrey and John Edward Carew; the statuemania that characterised the last part of this century is well illustrated by Thomas Brock s imposing statue celebrating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on Hove seafront. The achievements of major twentieth and twenty-first century sculptors are represented by Elisabeth Frink and William Pye among others. Many works from this period are the result of public art initiatives by local councils, often as part of more wide-ranging regeneration schemes for Sussex towns. The patronage of health authorities, influenced by new thinking about the calming and healing qualities of art in public places has also benefitted both local sculptors and those based elsewhere in the country. Each individual work is catalogued, with precise details of location, condition and history, including commissioning, opening ceremonies and re-siting. Most are individually illustrated in black and white. Biographies of local and less well-known sculptors, together with a selected bibliography are included at the end of the volume.

The Bullet Point Book of Chichester Art, by P. N. Moore, published 28 January 2015 (60 pp., Rivers Books, ISBN-10: 0954306481 & ISBN-13: 9780954306489) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

An Opus Reunited: Society acquires remaining Petrie images of Sussex buildings, by Emma O'Connor, published August 2015 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 136, article, pp.10-11, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In late April the Society was made aware of an interesting lot coming up for sale at Sotheby's.
The material being sold was a collection of 75 early 19th century pencil, pen and ink and wash views of historic buildings across Sussex. Included with these finished views were four hand written lists, possibly itineraries, and around 150 sheets from sketch books of preparatory drawings and studies of architectural detail, all by the same artist, Henry Petrie (1768-1842).

Visiting Edward Johnston, by Margaret Alexander, published November 2015 in The Journal of modern craft (8(3), article, pp.383-387)

Reproduces passages from material held at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft in an unpublished memoir by calligrapher Margaret Alexander (1902-1997) about her visits to calligrapher and typographer Johnston (1872-1944) at Ditchling

Friendship by design, by Peyton Skipwith, published 26 July 2017 in Country life (211 (30), article, pp.90-91)