British literature -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Carlyle collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 677
Abstract:
The Thomas Carlyle Collection is a mixed-provenance collection of material by and about Thomas Carlyle. Material includes writings, notes, maps, and correspondence that document Carlyle's research on German history and literature and on Oliver Cromwell, among other topics.
Dates:
circa 1750-1951, bulk 1827-1882
Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1998
Abstract:
Manuscripts, letters, and documents by English writer and social critic Charles Dickens, 1830-1870, collected by Richard Gimbel. Also included is Gimbel's collection of Dickensiana, 1772-1969, which consists of books, periodicals, printed ephemera, prints and stray plates, photographs, mass-produced objects, manuscripts, letters and documents, paintings and drawings, and relics and association items not created by Dickens but still relating to him. Present are letters from...
Dates:
1772-1969
Caroline Sheridan Norton collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 260
Abstract:
The collection contains letters and writings by or about Caroline Sheridan Norton. The letters are to recipients such as Robert Browning, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Mrs. Catherine Gore, Nathaniel Ogle, Lady Anna Stirling Maxwell, and Frances Trollope, as well as a letter to William Francis Cowper-Temple concerning the death of his uncle, Lord Melbourne. Writings include several autograph poems, and the autograph manuscript of "Love in the World," a novel written when Norton was a young...
Dates:
1830-1876