Jane Burr Papers, circa 1860s-1958
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Jane Burr Papers
Burr, Jane, 1882-1958
Biographical History for: Jane Burr Papers
Biographical Note Jane Burr atop the Savoy Hotel with Houses of Parliament in distance, London, 1922 Rosalind Mae Guggenheim, better known as Jane Burr, was born in Cleburne, Texas, December 27, 1882, the daughter of Bertha Kaufman and Leopold Guggenheim. She married Horatio G. Winslow in 1911 and they divorced in 1925. During the 1910s and 20s, she resided in New York City and was part of the Greenwich Village crowd of radicals, artists, and writers. She wrote articles on women's rights, marriage, dress reform, birth control, and changing sexual attitudes. In 1922 she traveled around the world studying and writing articles about the condition of women for United Press. In London she caused a stir by wearing her famous "knickerbockers." Jane Burr published a number of novels, poems and plays. Some of her better known works include City Dust (1917), The Glorious Hope (1918), The Passionate Spectator (1921), Marble and Mud (1935), The Queen is Dead (1938), and Fourteen Radio Plays (1945). Beginning in the 1940s she lived in Woodstock, New York where she opened her farmhouse as an inn for writers and ran an antique shop from her barn. Jane Burr died in 1958.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Jane Burr Papers include articles by and about Burr, photographs of Burr and her family, and about 150 letters to her. There is personal correspondence from Havelock Ellis from 1892-1935, mostly about their common interest in sex reform and the position of women: marriage, divorce, birth control; and a freer attitude toward sex. Other correspondents include Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Agnes Smedley, Fannie Hurst, Roger Baldwin, and Max Eastman. Burr's letters to Margaret Grierson, Director of the Sophia Smith Collection, contain detailed descriptions of her papers and provide valuable biographical context. Descriptions written on the back of the photographs of family and places provide additional biographical information. There are a number of photographs of Burr's home town, Cleburne, Texas.
Bohemianism--New York (State)--New York
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Clothing and dress--Social aspects--History--20th century--Sources
Jewish women--United States--Biography--Sources
Marriage, Companionate--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Women authors, American--20th century--Biography--Sources
Women journalists--United States--Biography--Sources
Baldwin, Roger, 1884-1981--Correspondence
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Burr, Jane, pseud.
Eastman, Max--Correspondence
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939-Correspondence
Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968-Correspondence
Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966--Correspondence
Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950--Correspondence
Wells, H.G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--Correspondence
Winslow, Rosalind Mae Guggenheim, 1882-1958
Guggenheim family
Contents
Photographs
Jane Burr, alone, circa 1895-1950s, n.d.
Family groups, friends, and scenes, circa 1870s-1950s, n.d.
Framed portraits of Bertha (mother) and Rosa (aunt) Kaufman, circa 1860s
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Clippings about Jane Burr, 1918-47
Writings by Jane Burr, 1922-24, n.d.
Correspondence to Jane Burr
Agronsky, Gershan, 1938
Baldwin, Roger, 1945
Block, Anita, 1950
Cohn, Alfred, 1930
Dell, Floyd, 1949
Eastman, Max, 1944, 1949
Ellis, Havelock, 1922-35
Forrest, Elizabeth, 1925
Freeman, Joseph, 1947, 1949
Goldman, Edwin Frank, 1943
Goldring, Douglas, 1932, 1949, 1950
Hahn, Emily, 1945, 1950
Jonkman, Jeanette, 1925
Hurst, Fannie, 1914, 1947, 1948, 1950
Lane, Rose Wilder, 1932, 1943, 1945
Liverwright, Horace, 1919
Mana-Zucca, n.d.
Martin, Helen, n.d.
Menninger, William C., 1950
Michaelis, Karin, 1938
Nordau, Max, 1938
Palmer, Cecil, 1935, 1936, 1938
Rosenblatt, Frank, n.d.
Sanger, Margaret, 1949
Smedley, Agnes, 1949
Stefansson, Vilhtalmur, 1939
Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1939
Weisgard, Runard, 1949, 1950, n.d.
Wells, H.G., 1938, n.d.
Correspondence from Jane Burr to Margaret Storrs Grierson, 1949-53
Mildred Sales: excerpt from "Books and Authors," n.d.
Horatio G. Winslow: divorce papers, 1925
Framed portrait (drawing) of Jane Burr by Edward C. Caswell, n.d. (oversized)