In Fiction
A fictionalised version of Anthony Wood is one of four narrators in Iain Pears' 1998 novel An Instance of the Fingerpost, which is set in the early 1660s.
Intimate details of Wood's life are recorded in his Diaries (1657–1695) and autobiography; all earlier editions were superseded by
- Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, described by himself (Oxford Historical Society, 1891–1900, 5 vols. 8vo).
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