Letters From Famous People, Publishers, Friends and Fans c 9 Mar 1946-c 19 Jul 1967

Bagnold, Enid, 1889-1981

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Enid Bagnold, a twentieth-century British author, is best known for her novel National Velvet (1935) and her play "The Chalk Garden" (1955). Born in Rochester, England she spent much of her early life abroad. As a child Bagnold lived in Jamaica where her father was stationed with the Royal Engineers. She was educated in Germany and France. During World War I, Bagnold served in an English hospital and drove an ambulance for the French army. Drawing on these expe...

Folio Society (publishers : active 1968-2001)

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Bell, John, active 1962-1965, of Oxford University Press

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Epithet: of Oxford University Press British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x000102 ...

Dent, J M and Sons (publishers : active 1920-1982)

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Gollancz, Victor, 1893-1967

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Epithet: publisher and author Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0000b8 Victor Gollancz (1893-1967) was educated at St. Paul's School and New College, Oxford. Having been judged unfit for foreign service during the First World War, he spent the period teaching at Repton. In 1920 Gollancz began his first job in publishing, working for Benn's publishing ho...

Treece, Henry William, active 1940-1993, writer

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000167 ...

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed and autograph postal card signed : Petersfield, to Denys Blakelock, 1958 Dec. 10 and [1959] Sept. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870929 Access to the archive was provided to Piers Paul Read who wrote the authorised biography of Alec Guinness. Therefore the archive, to some extent, has been arranged and information has been collected and added by Read. The impact of his use of the archive is most noticeable...

Royal Society of Literature (active 1837-1994)

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Tynan, Kenneth, 1927-1980

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Epithet: theatre critic and impresario British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x00000d Director and theater personality. Kenneth Tynan, born in Birmingham, England, stuttered as a child but was highly precocious, and was already keeping a diary by the age of six. A brilliant pupil at Kind Edward's School in Birmingham, Tynan won a scholarship to Oxford at the end of WWII, where he became an intellectual and soc...