Authors Collection, 1845-1986
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Authors Collection
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Scope and Contents of the Collection Gertrude Stein, ca. 1900 The Authors Collection is comprised of bibliographies of women writers, both from the U.S. and abroad; general files on women authors by country; and files on individual authors and poets. In a few cases there are typescripts of an author's works, photographs, biographical information, newspaper clippings, and some reviews. The collection dates approximately from 1845 to 1976. Individual authors represented include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tillie Olsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf, among others. There is one complete manuscript, How to Make Love to a Man in Five Languages, by Doris Lilly. A substantial section on Margaret Mitchell includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and correspondence about Mitchell, the publication of Gone With the Wind, the release of the movie, and efforts of the Atlanta Smith Club to raise money for Margaret Mitchell scholarships to send Georgia women to Smith. Correspondence includes letters from Mitchell to Julia Collier Harris and her husband Julian Harris (circa 1936-47), both newspaper editors who, together, received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for their editorials in the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer-Sun against the Ku Klux Klan.
Authors--Biography--Sources
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Women authors--Biography--Sources
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
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Lorde, Audre
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949--Correspondence
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SERIES I. GENERAL
Bibliographies
"Women Writers"
"Neglected American Women Writers"
"Women and Literature"
Digging Out: Lost Voice of New England Women Writers (New England Women Writers Project)1978
Miscellaneous articles and fliers on women authors
SERIES II. COUNTRIES
General: clippings
Canada
England
General
Berners, Dame Juliana
Carroll, Lewis: "The Real Alice"
France
Beauvoir, Simone de
de Staël, Madame
Collette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Sand, George
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Japan
Norway
Portugal: Margarida Ofelia Avelar de Carvalho
Spain
Sweden: Selma Lagerlöf
SERIES III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
Adams, Hannah
Alcott, Louisa May
Louisa M. Alcott, Her Life, Letters and Journals, edited by Ednah D. Cheney
Alexander, Francesca
Allinson, Anne C.E.
Baldwin, Faith
Barr, Amelia E.
Bates, Katherine Lee
Bottome, Phyllis
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Brachen, Peg
Bradstreet, Anne
Brontë;, Charlotte and family
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Penini (son)
Buck, Pearl S.
Burnett, Constance Buell
Cary, Alice and Phoebe
Cather, Willa S.
General and photograph
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletters 1962-76
Cheney, Ednah Dow
Child, Lydia Maria: correspondence, clippings, and Letters from New York1845
Cleghorn, Sarah N.
Converse, Florence
Creevey, Caroline Althea
d'Arona, Florence Roosevelt: photograph
De la Ramée, Louisa
Dickinson, Emily
Diver, Maud
Bibliography
Letters
Illustration for Royal India
Dodge, Mary Mapes
Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley
Elliot, George
Evans, Anne
Fairfield, Genevra
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fry, Anne
Fuller, Carol: typed copy of Vestal Flame
Fuller, Margaret
Gale, Zona
Gardener, Helen Hamilton (Alice Chenowith Day)
Gardner, Isabella Stewart
Genlis, Felicite Ducrest Contesse de
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell
Hall, Evelyn Beatrice
Hamilton, Edith
Harper, Frances E.W.
Hobart, Alice Tisdale
Lilly, Doris: How to Make Love in Five Different Languages (manuscript)
Jackson, Helen Hunt
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Larcom, Lucy
A New England Girlhood 1890
Lazarus, Emma
Leitch, Mary Sinton
Lerner, Gerda
Levertov, Denise
Lilly, Doris
Lowell, Amy
Macaulay, Catharine
Macaulay, Rose: letter to M. Nicolson
Martineau, Harriet
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Mitchell, Margaret
Mitchison, Naomi
Mitford, Mary Russel
Moore, Julia A.
Norris, Kathleen
O'Conner, Flannery
Olsen, Tillie
Ostenso, Martha
Prairie Bird, pseud.
Pratt, Annies
Rand, Ayn
Randall, Margaret
Resse, Elizabeth Phelps, Countess
Richards, Laura
Sachs, Emanie
Sampter, Jessie E.
Sayers, Dorothy L.: letter to M. Nicolson
Schreiner, Olive
Sitwell, Edith
Stein, Gertrude
Stephens, Ann Sophia
Sterling, Dorothy
Stern, G.B.: letter to M. Nicolson
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Susann, Jacqueline: Every Night, Josephine
Swenson, May
Teasdale, Sara
Todd, Mabel Loomis
Todd, Mary Ives
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart
Wells, Carolyn: verse
Wharton, Edith Newbold
Wheatley, Phillis
Whitman, Walt: letter to Mary (Smith) Costelloe Berenson (photostat)
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Woolf, Virginia
Zangwill, Israel
Ziegler, Marianne
SERIES IV. POETRY
General; poetry reviews
Margaret Mitchell
University of Georgia Libraries: information on Mitchell collection
Letter from Mildred Thompson to Margaret Storrs Grierson
Smith College Libraries Annual Report: description of Mitchell Collection
Clippings about Gone With the Wind
Clippings about Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind: articles and pamphlets
Smith College Scholarship Fund
Photographs: Smith College, publicity, and miscellaneous
Correspondence (to and from Margaret Mitchell)
Clark, Annetta and Mary 1936, 1939
Dick, Jackson P. (including review of Gone With The Wind) 1937
Draper, Jesse: letters written during WWII to friend, describing life in wartime Atlanta 1941-45
Dunn, Harris A. 1936
Grierson, Margaret Storrs 1942
Harris, Julia Collier 1936, 1947
Harris, Julian 1936-37
Thompson, Mildred 1937-38
Plattner, Gladys (Lee) 1936, 1940
Hill, Edith (Editor of Smith Alumnae Quarterly) 1936
Neely, Rachel S. 1907
Hungarian movie magazinecirca 1937
Rachel Schlesinger Neely to her daughter Rachel Neely Parker about Margaret Mitchell 1939
Gone With the Wind (Motion Picture Edition) 1939
Lorde, Audre: conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin (orginally recorded for Essence magazine, December 1984 issue): audio recording, transcript, correspondence, and notes 1983
[Original audio tapes closed - use copies on CD]
Books on Shelf
Anne Evans, Poems and Music 1880
Sarah Josepha Hale, Biography of Distinguished Women; Or, Woman's Record, From the Creation to A.D. 18691876
Margaret Mitchell Commemorative Stamps (US Post Office) 1986