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Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Violet Hunt Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/OXVTA5, Texas Data Repository, V2
Violet Hunt was a British novelist, biographer, and literary hostess born in 1862 to novelist Margaret Hunt and painter Alfred Hunt. She was a part of the pre-Raphaelite social circle that included Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, and Ford Madox Brown with whom she lived for 10 years... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Washington Irving Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/YGGQ10, Texas Data Repository, V2
Washington Irving was an American author and diplomat born in 1783. He is considered to be the first international best seller and was a frequent traveler abroad. It was during these travels that he became the secretary to the American Legion in London and eventually the U.S. Min... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "William Makepeace Thackeray", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/8KJA6T, Texas Data Repository, V2
Nineteenth-century author William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his novel Vanity Fair, a portrait of English society. In addition to his talent in writing satire, he was also a skilled artist, producing many sketches and drawings that illustrate his life in Victorian Engl... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Zane Grey Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/QKPPM1, Texas Data Repository, V2
Zane Grey was an American author of popular Western adventure stories and novels. Many of his works were adapted for radio, film, or television, including his novel Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and The Lone Star Ranger (1915), which inspired the television series The Lone Ran... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "William Wordsworth Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/MBRE4N, Texas Data Repository, V2
The William Wordsworth collection contains manuscripts and letters by the English Romantic poet. Correspondents include John Gardner, Richard Parkinson, Edward Quillinan, Richard Sharpe, and Mrs. Wordsworth. |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Robert Burns Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/BS0G9T, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Robert Burns collection includes five manuscripts and three letters written by the Scottish poet. Correspondents include Allan Cunningham, Robert Muir, and an unidentified recipient. Also present are an autograph of Burns' brother Gerald Burns and a manuscript containing an a... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Charles Brockden Brown Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/HJYOT5, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Charles Brockden Brown collection includes manuscript prose and poetry pieces, mathematical calculations, and notes and architectural drawings by the American novelist, historian, and editor Charles Brockden Brown, and also some of his correspondence, most notably thirty-seve... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "John Keats Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/BXB2BI, Texas Data Repository, V2
The John Keats collection includes manuscripts and letters by the English Romantic poet. Present are fragments of poems "Isabella" and "Lamia," as well as a manuscript of his verse tragedy "Otho the Great." Two letters by Keats are included, written to his sister-in-law, Georgina... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/BBC71O, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection includes manuscripts and letters written by the American poet and educator. Among his manuscripts are notes for The song of Hiawatha. Correspondents include Alfred Domett, James R. Osgood, William Wetmore Story, Harriet Ware, and others. |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Baron Alfred Tennyson Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/C4EQ3W, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Baron Alfred Tennyson Collection includes manuscripts, fragments, and proofs of works and letters written by the English poet. The manuscripts represent Enid, The Falcon, Gareth and Lynette, Idylls of the King, The Lover's Tale, Poems (1869), The Promise of May, and other wor... |