Books from the library of Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien

Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien (born 18 June 1929) is the fourth and youngest child of J. R. R. Tolkien, his only daughter and only living child. 

Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien's library

Armour, Margaret (Translated by). Nibelungenlied: a prose translation. London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca from Chris. December 25th, 1943’.

Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1869.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca: wishing you a happy Christmas from Michael and Joan. Christmas, 1941’.

Boswell, James. Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: including the correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide) Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. London: Heinemann, 1952.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien from Christopher. Christmas, 1952.’

Carpenter, Humphrey. The Inklings: C .S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their friends. London; Boston: George Allen and Unwin, 1978.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla with much love from Humphrey’.

____ . W.H. Auden: a biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
Description: Inscribed ‘Prisca |with very much love from Humphrey. January ‘82’.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Stories, essays and poems. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1948.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien Lady Margaret Hall. Oxford, 4.6.49’; ‘3. Manor Road Oxford’.

Dumas, Alexandre. Marguerite de Valois. London: J. M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1927.
Description: Inscribed ‘June 18th 1942. Priscilla from Mummy’.

____ . The three musketeers. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1941.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Priscilla from Chris. June 18th 1942’.

Farrer, Katharine, Gownsman’s gallows. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957.
Description: Inscribed ‘Katherine Farrer (I would have given it to you if I had fewer??) Priscilla Tolkien.’

____ . The Cretan counterfeit. London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1954.
Description: Inscribed ‘Who went and bought it for the profit, pleasure and shame of Katherine Farrer’; ‘Priscilla Tolkien 1.4.54’.

____ . The missing link. London: Collins, 1952.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien bought this book herself but ought to have had it as a present. As it was, she got nothing but love from Katherine Farrer’.

Farrow, John. Pageant of the Popes. London: Sheed and Ward, 1943.
Description: Inscribed Signed by J.R.R. Tolkien ‘P.M.R. Tolkien’.

Fergusson, James, Sir. Alexander the Third: King of Scotland. London: Alexander Maclehose & Co., 1937.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla with love from John. January 1945’.

Flieger, Verlyn. A question of time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s road to Faërie. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997.
Description: Inscribed ‘For Priscilla | whose contribution to this book made all the difference. With love, Verlyn’.

____ .; Hostetter, Carl F. (Edited by). Tolkien’s legendarium: essays on The history of Middle–earth. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Description: Inscribed ‘For Priscilla | To mark many years of rewarding friendship. With gratitude and love, Verlyn’.

Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph. Histories of the Kings of Britain. Translated by Sebastian Evans. London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1941.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca from Chris. Christmas, 1942’.

Higgens, Deborah A. Anglo-Saxon community in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Toronto: Oloris Publishing, 2014.
Description: Inscribed ‘Dear Priscilla, Thank you for your kind friendship and for being a touchstone with this book, and its English Hobbits. I loved the Jack story you shared with me after Tea at the Kilns | the “fox” story | how lovely and how like Jack! I hope you enjoy the read. God Bless, Debbie, 19/7/14’.

Hooper, Walter. Through joy and beyond: a pictorial biography of C.S. Lewis. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1982.
Description: Inscribed ‘Christmas 1982 for my dear little Prisca with love and greetings from Walter’.

Johnston, George Burke. Reflections. Blacksburg, Virginia: The White Rhinoceros Press, 1978.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Miss Priscilla Tolkien | with esteen and friendship, | George Burke Johnston | Aprile 6, 1983’.

Lewis, C. S. Broadcast talks: reprinted with some alterations from two series of broadcast talks (Right and wrong: a clue to the meaning of the universe , and What Christians believe ) given in 1941 and 1942. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien given to me by Chris. September 1945’.

____ . Selected Literary Essays. Edited by Walter Hooper. Cambridge: At the  University Press, 1967.

Description: Inscribed ‘For Prisca | with love and duty | from Walter | 6 December 1969'.
Notes: Preface '... Miss Priscilla Tolkien ... have help me in ways too numerous to recall but no less appreciated Jesus College. Oxford. September 1968'.

____ . Studies in words. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1967.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien’.

____ . The discarded image: an introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1970.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien’.

____ . They stand together: the letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963). Edited by Walter Hooper. London: Collins, 1979.
Description: Inscribed ‘3 May 1979. For Prisca, with gratitude for her encouragement, and with best love from Walter’.

Lorenz, Konrad. King Solomon’s ring: new light on animal ways. Translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson. London: Methuen, 1955.
Description: Inscribed ‘Daddy, with very much love from Prisca. Christmas, 1957’.

____ . Man meets dog. Translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson. London: Methuen & Co., 1955.
Description: Inscribed ‘Daddy, with very much love from Prisca. Christmas 1957.’

Malory, Thomas. Le morte d’Arthur. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien’.

Milne, A. A. The Christopher Robin Birthday Book. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1934 (3rd ed.).
Description: Inscribed ‘P.M.R. Tolkien’; 1st January ‘John Campbell’; 3rd January ‘Daddy’; 4th January ‘Auntie Magdalene’; 12th January ‘Maria Faoken’; 5th February ‘Auntie | Jean Hammond’; 12th March ‘Elspeth Buocton | 1926’; 29th April ‘Phoebe Coleo | Joan Rimer’.

Sackville-West, Vita. The Garden. London: Michael Joseph, 1947 (3rd imp.).
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien. | 3, Manor Road. | Oxford. September, 1947.’

Scott, Walter. Peveril of the peak. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1932.
Description: Inscribed ‘Prisca from John, Christmas 1942’

____ . Rob Roy. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca with love from Chris. Xmas 1940’.

____ . The abbot. London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1936.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla M.R. Tolkien, from F.C., Christmas 1940.’

____ . The black dwarf: A legend of Montrose. London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1933.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca from Chris. December 25th, 1943.’

____ . The fair maid of Perth. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca from Chris, Christmas 1941’.

____ . Waverley. London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1937.
Description: Inscribed ‘July 1941, with best wishes to Prisca from C.R.T.’

Stevenson, Robert Louis. St. Ives. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla with love from John, 1943.’

____ . The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses. London : Cassell & Co., 1916.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla M.R. Tolkien from F.C. Christmas, 1941.’

Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon. London: Chatto and Windus, 1948.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla | Christopher, Oxford 1949.’

Trevelyan, G. M. An Autobiography and Other Essays. London: Longmans, 1949.
Description: Inscribed ‘Priscilla Tolkien’

Waugh, Evelyn. A handful of dust. London: Chapman and Hall, 1948.
Description: Inscribed ‘Prisca | Faith, Christmas 1950.’

____ . Scott-King’s modern Europe. London: Chapman and Hall, 1947.
Description: Inscribed ‘Prisca from Chris: Christmas 1950.’

Yonge, Charlotte Mary. The dove in the eagle’s nest. London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929.
Description: Inscribed ‘To Prisca from Chris. Christmas 1942.’


Biography [Wiki]
Priscilla Tolkien had long been hoped for, and was born to Tolkien and his wife in their house at 22 Northmoor Road in Oxford shortly before the couple moved into their new one at 20 Northmoor Road in 1930. She completed her B.A. degree in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1951. She accompanied her father to a two-week holiday in Italy from late July to mid-August 1955. After that, she started living in the further side of the Oxford city from her parents' house but still saw them frequently and started working as a probation officer in the city. She was also a social worker. Tolkien wrote his last letter to Priscilla in August 1973. She is the honorary vice-president of the Tolkien Society. She wrote an article titled "My Father the Artist" in December 1976 for Amon Hen, the bulletin of the Tolkien Society. After her eldest brother John returned to Oxford in 1987, the siblings began identifying and cataloging the large collection of family photographs.