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Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982

 Person

Biography

Frank Arthur Swinnerton (1884-1982), English novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Beer family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas...
Dates: 1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981

Joseph Conrad Collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1207
Abstract:

The Joseph Conrad Collection contains writings, correspondence, and other material by or relating to Joseph Conrad.

Dates: 1860-1957

William McFee collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 991
Abstract: The William McFee Collection contains correspondence between McFee and literary colleagues, publishers, friends, and family; third-party correspondence concerning McFee, his family, and his friendship with James T. Babb; autograph manuscript or typescript drafts for most of McFee's novels, and for short stories, essays, books reviews, and poems; autograph manuscript diaries, 1911-1963; writings of others, including Margery Allingham and Beatrice Allender McFee; photographs of McFee and...
Dates: 1862-1966, bulk 1900-1966

Letters to Stephen McKenna

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 316
Abstract:

Letters to the English novelist Stephen McKenna, principally from other authors, including Alfred Austin, Arnold Bennett, John Drinkwater, John Galsworthy, Compton Mackenzie, John Masefield, Arthur Wing Pinero, Frank Swinnerton, Hugh Walpole and Arthur Waugh. Many of the letters concern invitations to literary dinners and other social events.

Dates: 1917-1939

Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 80
Abstract:

The papers document the literary and personal lives of Morgan and Theis, and contain correspondence, subject files, and professional papers related to the 20th century British literary world. There is correspondence regarding Evelyn Scott, and correspondence as well as poems by Nancy Cunard.

Dates: 1903-1983, bulk 1930-1960