Elizabeth Hudson collection of E. Œ. Somerville &personal papers 1879-1970

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Elizabeth Hudson collection of E. Œ. Somerville &personal papers 1879-1970

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Collection contains correspondence,writings, drawings and paintings, and other papers documenting the life of E.Œ. Somerville, as well as materials related to Elizabeth Hudson's interest inthe military and her involvement in the relief efforts of World Wars I and II.Correspondence includes letters to Hudson from the Chiswick Press, HildegardeCoghill, Geraldine Cummins, Edith Somerville, Moira Somerville, and A. J. A.Symons concerning the Somerville family's life in Ireland, Edith Somerville'swriting, and efforts by Hudson and Somerville to publish a bibliography of theworks of Somerville and Ross. Other letters include correspondence betweenSomerville and various individuals and some third-party letters. Writingsinclude drafts and proofs of Hudson's Somerville and Ross bibliography,typescript copies of portions of Somerville's diary, and a typescript ofSomerville's play Flurry's Wedding. Artwork contains original and reproductiondrawings and paintings by Somerville. Photographs include pictures ofSomerville, her sister Hildegarde Coghill and others. Other materials includenotes and papers related to the bibliography and to Somerville's writing ingeneral, as well as transcriptions of automatic writing and spiritualcommunications with Somerville, her cousin Martin Ross, and Hudson's friend andcompanion Dorothy Sturges. Papers related to war and the military documentHudson's service in the American Red Cross Military Hospital No. 1 during WorldWar I, and her involvement in relief efforts for France during World War II.Included are letters to Hudson from soldiers, nurses and children, photographsof Paris, military hospitals, soldiers and nurses, scrapbooks of newspaperclippings, and other papers.

Total Boxes: 21; Other Storage Formats: 2 broadsides; Linear Feet: 10.00

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349735

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Chiswick Press

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The founder of Chiswick Press was Charles Whittingham (1767-1840). Upon completion of his printing apprenticeship in Coventry, Whittingham set up his own press in London in 1795, a short-lived Tory journal The Tomahawk. He eventually settled in the Thameside suburb of Chiswick, giving the name of the town to the book publishing division of Charles Whittingham and Co. Whittingham's nephew, Charles Whittingham the younger, joined his uncle as a partner in the firm. The fir...

Hudson, Elizabeth

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Edith Anna Oenone Somerville was born on 2 May 1858 in Corfu, Greece, where her father, a British army lieutenant colonel, was stationed. He retired to Ireland a year later, and Somerville grew up at Drishane House in County Cork. She attended Alexandra College and studied painting in London, Dusseldorf and Paris, but soon returned to Ireland. In January of 1886, Somerville first met her younger cousin Violet Martin (almost always referred to as Martin Ross). The two beg...

Coghill, Hildegarde.

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Cummins, Geraldine

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Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949

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E. Œ. Somerville, Irish author. From the description of E. Œ. Somerville Collection, 1935-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83632141 From the description of E. Œ. Somerville collection, 1935-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702161295 Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (1858-1949) was an Irish writer, illustrator, and painter. She wrote many books with her cousin, Violet Florence Martin (1862-1915, Martin Ross, Pseud.) as the co-authors somerville and Ross. ...

Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

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Alphonse James Albert Symons was born in a suburb of London and privately educated, until apprenticed to a furrier at age fourteen. With little experience in the book trade, he founded the First Editions Club, and soon published a bibliography of William Butler Yeats. An avid collector, he was editor of the Book-Collector's Quarterly, establishing himself as an authority on literature of the 1890s with essays and lectures. He wrote several biographies, notably The Quest for Corvo, an innovative ...

Somerville, Moira.

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Ross, Martin, 1862-1915

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