Gladys Lucy Adshead papers, 1937-1965.

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Gladys Lucy Adshead papers, 1937-1965.

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Collection consists of correspondence, together with materials related to the publication of her numerous children's books. There are manuscript copies of Bells beyond the sand (published as An inheritance of poetry), Brownies, hurry! Brownies, It's Christmas, Smallest Brownie's fearful adventure, Seventeen to sing, and What Miranda knew. In addition, there is a sheet of the final dummy for Casco, the little seal as well as several page proofs for Something surprising. Adshead's correspondence relates to the history of publication for her children's books, including rejection letters and editorial suggestions. The letters document the development of her publishing relationship with editor Patricia Cummings of the Oxford University Press. The manuscript pages and copies vary in condition. The Chicago Schools journal: supplement of May-June 1951 gives biographical sketches of authors and illustrators of children's literature in the Chicago area and include Adshead's personal marginal holograph comments concerning those authors with whom she was acquainted.

1 linear ft. (2 containers)

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Cummings, Patricia

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Adshead, Gladys L.

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Gladys Lucy Adshead, author of numerous twentieth-century children's books, as well as a successful teacher and school administrator, was born to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead in West Didsbury, Manchester, England, on April 25, 1896. Her father inculcated in her a love of reading and openly avowed desire that Adshead would write children's books one day. In 1906, with the birth of her second brother, she concluded at age ten that she wanted to be a teacher for small children. ...