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Paul West papers

1951-2004

https://aspace.libraries.psu.edu/repositories/3/resources/1298

This collection contains notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs for his biographical sketches, book reviews, essays, literary criticism, memoirs, poems, short stories, and unpublished and published novels, including Alley Jaggers, Bela Lugosi's White Christmas, Caliban's Filibuster, Colonel Mint, Gala, I'm Expecting to Live Quite Soon, Lord Byron's Doctor,Love's Mansion, The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests, Rat Man of Paris, Tenement of Clay, The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg, and The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper. Also, includes photographs, a taped interview by Martha Deane on WOR radio (1970), cover painting of Tenement of Clay, awards, reviews of his work, and letters from Walter Ernest Allen, Frederick Wilse Bateson, Marguerite Caetani, Northrop Frye, Elizabeth Jennings, V.S. Pritchett, Alan Pryce-Jones, John Crowe Ransom, James Reeves, Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, Martin Seymour- Smith, John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, Robert Penn Warren, Basil Willey, and others.

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Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001

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Elizabeth Joan Jennings was born on July 18, 1926, in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, to Henry Cecil Jennings, a medical officer of health, and Helen Mary Turner. Raised as a Roman Catholic, she attended Rye St. Antony School and later Oxford High School. When Jennings was thirteen years old she discovered poetry, first struck by Chesterton's The Battle of Lepanto. She found early encouragement in teachers and an uncle, himself a poet. Jennings studied English at St. Anne's College, Oxford from 1...