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Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "L. Frank Baum Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/N6XE5X, Texas Data Repository, V2
The L. Frank Baum collection includes two manuscripts by the American children's book author, who is best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). The manuscripts represent The Magic of Oz (published posthumously in 1919) and The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918). The Magic of... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Mary Elizabeth Braddon", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/P66RQH, Texas Data Repository, V2
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a prolific English writer of popular fiction in the Victorian period. Her best-known work is Lady Audley's Secret, published in 1862. The Mary Elizabeth Braddon collection is drawn from a portion of the Robert Lee Wolff collection of nineteenth-century... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "O. Henry Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/RVDCIW, Texas Data Repository, V2
O. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter, was an American author of short stories. His works are remembered for their wit and wordplay, and often feature surprise endings, as seen in his Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi." O. Henry was born in North Carolina in 18... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Oscar Wilde Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/EA4GZC, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Oscar Wilde collection includes manuscripts and letters written by the Irish poet and playwright. Series I. is composed of five major works by Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, and A Woman of No Importance are present as complete typescripts... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Robert Louis Stevenson Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/CKRKJJ, Texas Data Repository, V2
The Robert Louis Stevenson collection includes manuscripts and letters written by the Scottish novelist, as well as letters and manuscripts about him by others. Correspondents include Stevenson's wife, mother, and cousin, as well as writers Edmund Gosse and H. Rider Haggard. Also... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Sara Teasdale Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/CRIWDF, Texas Data Repository, V2
Sara Teasdale was an American poet born in 1884. Over the years, she ran with several literary and poetry circles, even starting a literary magazine with one group called The Potter's Wheel. Through these circles, she met Vachel Lindsay, with whom she had a relationship and a lat... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Thomas Hardy Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/4Z1GAK, Texas Data Repository, V2
English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England to stonemason Thomas Hardy and his wife Jemima. He was taught at home by his mother and at the local school until he was sent to Dorchester in 1850, where he spent six years learning La... |
Feb 13, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center
Ballou, Jullianne, 2018, "Vachel Lindsay Collection", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/7YRHOS, Texas Data Repository, V2
American poet Vachel Lindsay sought to amplify the musical quality of poetry. He is remembered as one of the founders of modern singing poetry, a style in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. Lindsay was friends with poets Langston Hughes and Sara Teasdale, and was also... |
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... |