Deborah Evetts collection of Hroswitha Club material, 1944-1994.

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Deborah Evetts collection of Hroswitha Club material, 1944-1994.

Minutes (with some gaps), meeting announcements (1971-1994), membership and books lists documenting the activities of the Hroswitha Club from its founding in 1944 to 1994. Also: lists of books presented to the Hroswitha Club, and tributes to two deceased members, Eleanor Cross Marquand and Lola Szladits. The collection includes a copy of Hroswith of Gandersheim, by Anne Lyon Haight (1965).

1 box (.5 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6710384

Grolier Club

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Evetts, Deborah

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The Hroswitha Club of women book collectors was founded in New York City in 1944 to bring together women devoted to the arts of the book and active as collectors. The 200th meeting was held in 1994. Meetings have been held at homes of members as well as at major libraries and collections, primarily in the Northeast. In 1965 the Club issued its major publication, Hroswitha of Gandersheim: her life, times and works, by Anne Lyon Haight, to honor the 10th century German abbess, playwright, poet and...

Marquand, Eleanor Cross, 1873-1950

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Eleanor Cross Marquand (1873-1950) is most noted for her research on the botanical symbolism of the Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was granted an honorary M.A. by Princeton in 1948. Cross Marquand was a student of horticulture and botany. She contributed to the Garden Club of America Bulletin and the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. She was born in New York in 1873 and died in Princeton, N.J. in 1950. She bequeathed her botanical and horticultural library to t...

Haight, Anne Lyon.

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Hroswitha Club

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The Hroswitha Club of women book collectors was founded in New York City in 1944 and took its name from a 10th century female German poet (Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca. 975). Meetings were scheduled three to four times a year during the winter months and held at the homes of members as well as at major libraries and private collections, mainly in the northeast. In 1948, the Club founded its Sarah Gildersleeve Fife Memorial Library (named after one of the Hroswitha Club's founders) consist...

Hroswitha, ca.935-ca.975

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Szladits, Lola L.

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Curator, Berg Collection, New York Public Library. From the description of Reminiscences of Lola L. Szladits : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147525 ...