Women authors collection, Ba-Be, 1814-1952.

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Women authors collection, Ba-Be, 1814-1952.

Single item and one-folder collections of letters and writings by women authors are described in this aggregate record. Included are five letters from Enid Bagnold to Clifford Musgrave, 1944-1952, and one to Margaret MacKail, 27 July 1931; ten letters (one to Brooke Lambert) and one manuscript by Annie Wood Besant, 1880-1890, n.d. Also, Sylvia Baker note on postcard advertising her book Portraits in the London zoo, n.d.; Anna Letitia Barbauld letters to Mrs. Greg, 1822, and My dear friends, 1814.

20 items.

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Bagnold, Enid, 1889-1981

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Enid Bagnold, a twentieth-century British author, is best known for her novel National Velvet (1935) and her play "The Chalk Garden" (1955). Born in Rochester, England she spent much of her early life abroad. As a child Bagnold lived in Jamaica where her father was stationed with the Royal Engineers. She was educated in Germany and France. During World War I, Bagnold served in an English hospital and drove an ambulance for the French army. Drawing on these expe...

Mackail, Margaret.

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Wife of J.W. Mackail. From the description of Letter : Salisbury, to Laurence Housman, 1905 May 7. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25286065 Epithet: née Burne-Jones wife of J W Mackail British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0000d6 ...

Lambert, Brooke,

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Besant, Annie, 1847-1933

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Theosophist and political leader in India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Crowther, 1888 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623129 Annie Wood Besant was born in London to Irish parents. An early marriage to a young clergyman ended in divorce, as Annie's increasing progressivism led to social activism. She renounced the Church, and became one of the most formidable and sought after writers and lecturers for such causes as the Freethink...

Greg, Mrs.,

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Musgrave, Clifford

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