Frank Harris Collection 1888-1955

Young, Filson, 1876-1938

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Filson Young was born in County Antrim and was a war correspondent, musician, journalist and soldier. His works include: Ireland at the Cross Roads (1903), and When the Tide Turns (1908). From the description of Filson Young fonds. [1912-1913]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676808666 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00020b ...

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Cochran, Evelyn

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Pearson, Hesketh, 1889-1964

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Scully, Frank, 1892-1964

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Scully graduated from Columbia University in 1927 and began working for the "New York Sun" as a reporter. After working briefly for the "Chicago Tribune" and "Variety," Scully ghosted a book on the life of George Bernard Shaw for Frank Harris. He ran unsuccessfully for the California Legislature's 57th District from 1934-1948 and served as secretary and administrative assistant of the California Department of Institutions from 1937-1941. Scully also authored several gag ...

Dowling, Allan, 1903-

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Roots, Edward Merrill, 1895-1973

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Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard Grayville, Countess of, 1861-1933

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Ross, Author Leonard

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Marlow, Louis, 1881-1966

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Epithet: novelist, al 'Louis Marlow' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x0003af Louis Umfreville Wilkinson was born in 1881, the only son of a clergyman. He attended Radley School where he struck up a correspondence with Oscar Wilde, then imprisoned in Reading Goal. He attended Oxford for four semesters before being "sent down" for blasphemousness in 1901. He next went to St. John's College, C...

Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950

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Mitchell Kennerley served as the publisher for "Wine of the Puritans," "John Addington Symonds" and "The World of H. G. Wells." From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1909-1915. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 181337904 Mitchell Kennerley (1878-1950) was an American publisher and art dealer. He worked for various literary magazines and published several others. From 1916 to 1929 and 1937 to 1939 he was president of the Anderson G...

Harris, Frank

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James Thomas Harris was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1856, the fourth of five children. After the early death of their mother, Harris was raised largely by his siblings before his father, a commander in the British Coast Guard, sent him to school in Wales. Harris ran away from school in 1871 and sailed to America. Between 1871 and 1872 Harris worked as a bootblack, construction worker, hotel clerk, and possibly as a cowboy. He traveled from New York to Chicago and ended u...

Compagnie Generale

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Auer, Harold C.

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Turner, Reginald, 1869? -1939

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Pollock, Granville A.

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Perowne & Co.

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Vallentin, Antonina, 1893-1957

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Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940

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Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia but had to leave because of her criticism of the Bols...

Tobin, A. I.

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Macedo, Elizabeth B. de.

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Davray, Henry-D., 1873-

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000383 Henry-D. Davray (b. 1873) was a French translator. From the description of Henry-D. Davray translations of Oscar Wilde poems, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367507466 From the guide to the Henry-D. Davray translations of Oscar Wilde poems, 1899, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Harris, Helen O'Hara

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Vernon, Madeleine

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Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967

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Son of Oscar and Constance Wilde. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Montgomery Hyde, 1953 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270974215 ...

Bruno, Guido, 1884-1942

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Guido Bruno was a writer, editor, and bookseller known for publishing a number of avant-garde works. Born in Bohemia and educated in several European cities, he emigrated to America in 1906 as a newspaper correspondent. He continued to work as a correspondent, drama critic, editorial writer, and war correspondent, before becoming the editor of numerous literary magazines. A bit of a self-promoter, he included his name in many of his publications, but helped authors such as Hart Crane and Djuna B...

Caton, Reginald Ashley, 1897-1971

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Curtis Brown Ltd.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Incorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son. From the guide to the Curtis Brown, Ltd. Records, 1914-2006., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co...