Women authors, American -- 20th Century -- Archives
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Ann Petry manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 206
Scope and Contents:
The Ann Petry Manuscripts contains the writings of American author Ann Petry. Writings consist of drafts of Petry’s novels Country Place (1947) and The Street (1946), some with extensive revisions. Some draft pages were written on the back of Negro Women, Incorporated, newsletters and governance documents. Also included are drafts of Petry's review of Margaret Halsey’s Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the...
Dates:
circa 1944-1947
Margaret Fuller Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 373
Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Connecticut-based author Margaret Witter Fuller (1872-1954).
Dates:
1832-1956, bulk 1872-1954
Meryle Secrest papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 201
Scope and Contents:
The Meryle Secrest Papers, which span from 1900 to 2019, contain writings, notes, correspondence, research materials, and computer and audiovisual media related to the life, work, and primarily the writings, of Meryle Secrest. Correspondents include Svetlana Allilueva, Kenneth Clark, Hugh Leonard, H. R. Trever-Roper, and Herman Wouk. The collection also contains photographs of Amedeo Modigliani and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Dates:
1900-2019
Mary Hoyt Wiborg papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1408
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, printed material, and electronic files by or relating to Mary Hoyt Wiborg. Materials document her life as an expatriate in France, service as a volunteer nurse in both World Wars, and work as a playwright. Included are letters from Wiborg to her father Frank Bestow Wiborg in 1918, describing her experiences at a French military hospital during World War I, and correspondence with her sisters Sara Murphy and...
Dates:
circa 1910s-2017, bulk 1914-1964