Lowry family fonds. 1911-1993.

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Lowry family fonds. 1911-1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606462516

The fonds consists of family papers relevant to the life and work of Malcolm Lowry, collected by Russell Lowry and including early autograph letters of Malcolm, other relevant correspondence with his parents, Arthur and Evelyn Lowry, records relevant to the family and Malcolm's estate, personal memoire of family relationship by Russell Lowry, extensive correspondence of Russell with most scholars, including Gordon Bowker, Muriel Bradbrook, Ann Smith, and Sherrill Grace, who have studied Malcolm's life and work since the early 1970s.

25 cm of textual records.

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781971

University of British Columbia Library

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Lowry, Arthur

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Lowry, Evelyn.

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Bradbrook, M. C. (Muriel Clara), 1909-1993

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Muriel Bradbrook, Mistress of Girton College and Professor of English in the University of Cambridge, wrote the book "Malcolm Lowry, His Art and Early Life" (1974). From the description of M. C. Bradbrook fonds. 1962-1976. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606462533 ...

Smith, Anne, 1944-

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Family historian, researcher, teacher and author. Mrs Ann Smith (née Broadhead) grew up in Bungonia, New South Wales, and attended Wagga Wagga Teacher's College, 1948-1950. She taught Infant's School for 37 years. Smith's main genealogical interest is the Broadhead family and her local history research has focussed on the Goulburn-Marulan-Bungonia area of New South Wales. She has published Bungonia district cemetary & burial records: a list of people who died or are buried in the Bungonia a...

Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957

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Lowry, (Clarence) Malcolm was a novelist born in New Brighton, England. He spent time at sea before studying at Cambridge. His most recognized novel is Under the Volcano (1947), set in Mexico where he resided 1936-37. Other works include Ultramarine (1933), based on his early sea travel, and the posthumous Dark is the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (1968). Most of his productive years he lived in British Columbia. From 1954 to his death he resided in England. From the description of...

Bowker, Gordon

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Sherrill, Grace.

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Lowry (family)

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Clarence Malcolm Lowry, the fourth son of a Liverpool cotton broker, Arthur Lowry and his wife, Evelyn, was born in 1909 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. His brothers were Stuart, Wilfrid, and Russell. By the age of 30, when he had arrived in British Columbia, Malcolm Lowry had received a B.A. in English from Cambridge University, published a novel and travelled to the United States and Mexico. By this time he had begun work on his major novel, Under the Volcano. In 1940 he married Margerie Bon...

Lowry, Russell.

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