Lucile Selk Edgerton Papers c.1905-1962 1936-1962

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Lucile Selk Edgerton Papers c.1905-1962 1936-1962

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The collection consists of Lucile Selk Edgerton's professional papers, including manuscripts of unpublished novels, original sketches, assorted printed magazines, copies of her published novels, California research notes, some printed items, and ephemera.

141 items

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The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department

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Rogers, Earl, 1870-1922

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Edgerton, Lucile Selk

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Lucile Selk Edgerton (1896-1987) graduated from East High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1915. She attended the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and was an art critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel. By 1937 she was living in Los Angeles. She was a prolific writer of short stories and novels, many of them with Western themes, during the 1930s and 1940s. She was the author of two published novels, In walked Anny (1940) and Pillars of gold (1941), a romance set in Civil War California. ...