Ethel Mannin papers

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Ethel Mannin papers

1922-1989

Collection of materials, predominantly correspondence, relating to the life and work of twentieth-century English author Ethel Mannin.

4.25 Linear Feet (7 containers)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668186

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Mannin, Ethel, 1900-1984

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The oldest of three children, Ethel Edith Mannin was born on October 11, 1900 in Clapham, a suburb of London, to Robert Mannin and Edith Gray Mannin. She was author of almost one hundred books (her goal was to publish one novel and one work of nonfiction each year). She published novels, travelogues, autobiographies, children's books, collections of short stories, books on child-rearing, and articles on pacifism and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Her journalistic career began at age seventeen, when ...

Turner, Gilbert, 1911-1983

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Gilbert Turner was born in Bournemouth, England in 1911. He was educated at the University of London General School and also received the Fellowship of the Library Association. Turner started working in libraries in 1927, and spent his first eighteen years working in Bournemouth, Twickenham and Chelsea. In 1946, he became the Borough Librarian of the London Borough of Richmond on the Thames. He had a love of classical music and was an instrumental force in bringing record collections to the p...

Huxter, Robert

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Robert Huxter was the biographer of Reginald Reynolds and Ethel Mannin. Huxter graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1962, and worked as an actor, playwright, and journalist. Like Reynolds, Huxter was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). At the time of the publication of Reg and Ethel, Huxter and his wife were co-wardens of the Friends Meeting House, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, and Huxter also wrote two books about that Meeting House. He worked for the Society of ...