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Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
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... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
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... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
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... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
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.... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
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... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
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... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Jack London Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/R6RODU, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Jack London collection includes manuscripts and letters by the American author and journalist Jack London. London's letters are directed to Edward Martin Moore, H. Ray Peck, and Vincent Starrett. There are also three letters by his wife, Charmian Kittredge London, to poet Joh... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Joel Chandler Harris", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/ZF8QQZ, Texas Data Repository, V2
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, author, and folklorist, best known for his Uncle Remus stories. He lived in Atlanta for much of his life, where he served as an associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution. The Joel Chandler Harris collection includes manuscripts... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Joseph Conrad Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/VXATC2, Texas Data Repository, V2
Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in 1857 in Berdychiv, which is part of modern Ukraine. As a young man he spent 19 years as a merchant marine sailing on French and British ships. His years at sea and the various persons he encountered served as inspiration for events and... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Julia Ward Howe", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/XALAED, Texas Data Repository, V2
Julia Ward Howe was a musician, a celebrated abolitionist, and a women's rights advocate. She was a member of the Woman Suffrage Association, organized the Woman's Peace Congress in London in 1871, and was eventually elected President of the Association of the Advancement of Wome... |