Glennyth M. Woods and Francis Watson collections on Robert Harborough Sherard, 1881-1987

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Glennyth M. Woods and Francis Watson collections on Robert Harborough Sherard, 1881-1987

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The Robert Harborough Sherard collection is comprised of papers and correspondence regarding or written by Robert Harborough Sherard, and collected by both Glennyth M. Woods and Francis Watson. Oscar Wilde and his posthumous reputation figure importantly in the correspondence collected here, and other documents discuss Sherard's own career and other acquaintances.

.5 linear feet (1 box)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7393431

University of California, Los Angeles

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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Watson, Francis, 1907-....

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Francis Leslie Watson, OBE, the biographer, critic, and radio feature writer, was born on 7 August 1907 to Major Frank Leslie Watson and his wife Charlotte Ethel (ne Barber), a Yorkshire-based family, and educated at Giggleswick School and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages, mainly French and German. After work on the Yorkshire Post, he found his bent as an independent writer, mainly of biography. Lord Dawson of Penn (1936) was followed by Wallenstein (1938), before he we...

Sherard, Robert Harborough, 1861-1943

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Woods, Glennyth M.

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Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945

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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas was an English writer, best known for his controversial personality and scandalous relationship with Oscar Wilde. Born into an aristocratic family, Douglas attended Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he wrote and participated in sports, but didn't take a degree. His well-chronicled relationship with Oscar Wilde provoked Douglas' father to insult Wilde, prompting a disastrous lawsuit that ended with Wilde imprisoned for two years. Douglas had a strong...