Manuscripts : of James Branch Cabell, 1911-1951, n.d.

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Manuscripts : of James Branch Cabell, 1911-1951, n.d.

The collection contains typed manuscripts, many with holograph corrections, of short stories, articles, reviews, novels, and a bibliography by Cabell; one manuscript draft of a novel; galley and page proofs of several novels; illustrations from novels and the wills of Cabell and Margaret Waller Freeman Cabell.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7289874

University of Virginia. Library

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

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Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is best known for his controversial book, Jurgen (1919), a fantasy set in Cabell's mythical medieval world of Poictesme (pronounced Pwa-tem). The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice contended the book was obscene. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Throughout the 1920s, Cabell's literary peers, including H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, praised his works. Cabell was born April 14, 1879, at 101 E. Frank...

Cabell, Margaret Freeman, 1893-1983

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Margaret Waller Freeman Cabell (1893-1983) was an interior decorator, founding editor of The Reviewer, and supporter of the arts. Born in Richmond, Virginia on August 29, 1893, Cabell graduated from Miss Jennie Ellett’s School (now St. Catherine’s School) and in the 1920s became one of the founding editors and the business manager of the Richmond-based literary magazine The Reviewer. During the 20s, Cabell also briefly studied interior design in Paris which would later lead to he...