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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... |
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... |