Harry Ransom Center

The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Its extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of writers and artists, deepening our understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. Visitors engage with the Center's collections through research and study, exhibitions, publications, and a rich variety of program offerings including readings, talks, symposia, and film screenings.

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Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection Apr 22, 2022 Harry Ransom Center, 2022, "Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/H9JSKE, Texas Data Repository, V1 The digital collection of British author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) and partner, artist and translator Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (1887-1963), contains approximately 61,600 images representing the entirety of their papers at the Ransom Center. This data is the folder-level des...
Sound Recordings Data May 17, 2021 Harry Ransom Center, 2021, "Sound Recordings Data", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/OXY4AC, Texas Data Repository, V1 This data comes directly from the Sound Recordings database, the institutional database for cataloging sound recordings in the Harry Ransom Center collections.
Mel Gussow Interview Recordings Apr 9, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Mel Gussow Interview Recordings", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/KC7OK8, Texas Data Repository, V2 The collection includes 90 recordings with actors, playwrights, novelists, cultural critics, and others conducted by theater critic and author Mel Gussow.
Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection (project REVEAL) Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2017, "Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection (project REVEAL)", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/A8DMKB, Texas Data Repository, V2 Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet born in London in 1830. Her lyric poetry is often described as romantic or devotional in nature. Her most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862, and established her as the leading female poet of the...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2017, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/PLT37J, Texas Data Repository, V2 The Dante Gabriel Rossetti collection includes manuscripts and correspondence by or related to the British poet and painter, who is remembered as one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Manuscripts for several of Rossetti's works of poetry are present in the collec...
Edward Lear Collection Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Edward Lear Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/HKHQGP, Texas Data Repository, V2 Edward Lear was an English artist, author, musician, and poet born in 1812. He has been dubbed by some the Father of Nonsense because of his use of literary nonsense throughout his work. The Edward Lear collection includes manuscripts and letters. One of his better-known works, B...
Gerard Manley Hopkins Collection Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Gerard Manley Hopkins Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/5NTI0C, Texas Data Repository, V2 Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 in Stratford, Essex, near London as the first of nine children of Manley and Catherine "Kate" (Smith) Hopkins. His father founded a marine insurance firm and was also a published poet, and his mother, who was the well-educated daughter of a...
Hart Crane Collection Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Hart Crane Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/A6DIXF, Texas Data Repository, V2 Strongly influenced by T. S. Eliot's work, Hart Crane's poetry is a mix of American modernism and romanticism. Though born in Ohio in 1899, he chose to move to New York City as a young adult. He embraced the urban environment, and his work was inspired by the culture of the city....
Henry James Collection Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Henry James Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/K2JAWP, Texas Data Repository, V2 Henry James was an American writer born in 1843. Throughout most of his life, he alternated his time between America and Europe, eventually settling in England. His works often commented on the relationship between Americans and Europeans, and toward the end of his life, he becam...
Henry David Thoreau Collection Feb 13, 2018 Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Henry David Thoreau Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/NJJAYV, Texas Data Repository, V2 Henry David Thoreau, born in 1817, was an American author, historian, poet, naturalist, and philosopher. He was a leader of transcendentalism and came to find a mentor and friend in Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau's better-known works include Walden and Civil Disobedience. The Henry...

Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection

Apr 22, 2022

Harry Ransom Center, 2022, "Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/H9JSKE, Texas Data Repository, V1

The digital collection of British author Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) and partner, artist and translator Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (1887-1963), contains approximately 61,600 images representing the entirety of their papers at the Ransom Center. This data is the folder-level des...

Sound Recordings Data

May 17, 2021

Harry Ransom Center, 2021, "Sound Recordings Data", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/OXY4AC, Texas Data Repository, V1

This data comes directly from the Sound Recordings database, the institutional database for cataloging sound recordings in the Harry Ransom Center collections.

Mel Gussow Interview Recordings

Apr 9, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Mel Gussow Interview Recordings", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/KC7OK8, Texas Data Repository, V2

The collection includes 90 recordings with actors, playwrights, novelists, cultural critics, and others conducted by theater critic and author Mel Gussow.

Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection (project REVEAL)

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2017, "Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection (project REVEAL)", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/A8DMKB, Texas Data Repository, V2

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet born in London in 1830. Her lyric poetry is often described as romantic or devotional in nature. Her most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862, and established her as the leading female poet of the...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2017, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/PLT37J, Texas Data Repository, V2

The Dante Gabriel Rossetti collection includes manuscripts and correspondence by or related to the British poet and painter, who is remembered as one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Manuscripts for several of Rossetti's works of poetry are present in the collec...

Edward Lear Collection

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Edward Lear Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/HKHQGP, Texas Data Repository, V2

Edward Lear was an English artist, author, musician, and poet born in 1812. He has been dubbed by some the Father of Nonsense because of his use of literary nonsense throughout his work. The Edward Lear collection includes manuscripts and letters. One of his better-known works, B...

Gerard Manley Hopkins Collection

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Gerard Manley Hopkins Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/5NTI0C, Texas Data Repository, V2

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 in Stratford, Essex, near London as the first of nine children of Manley and Catherine "Kate" (Smith) Hopkins. His father founded a marine insurance firm and was also a published poet, and his mother, who was the well-educated daughter of a...

Hart Crane Collection

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Hart Crane Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/A6DIXF, Texas Data Repository, V2

Strongly influenced by T. S. Eliot's work, Hart Crane's poetry is a mix of American modernism and romanticism. Though born in Ohio in 1899, he chose to move to New York City as a young adult. He embraced the urban environment, and his work was inspired by the culture of the city....

Henry James Collection

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Henry James Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/K2JAWP, Texas Data Repository, V2

Henry James was an American writer born in 1843. Throughout most of his life, he alternated his time between America and Europe, eventually settling in England. His works often commented on the relationship between Americans and Europeans, and toward the end of his life, he becam...

Henry David Thoreau Collection

Feb 13, 2018

Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Henry David Thoreau Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/NJJAYV, Texas Data Repository, V2

Henry David Thoreau, born in 1817, was an American author, historian, poet, naturalist, and philosopher. He was a leader of transcendentalism and came to find a mentor and friend in Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau's better-known works include Walden and Civil Disobedience. The Henry...

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