Elizabeth Bowen:
An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
|
|
|
|
|
Creator |
Bowen, Elizabeth,
1899-1973 |
|
Title |
Elizabeth Bowen Collection
|
|
Dates: |
1923-1975 |
|
|
|
Abstract |
Irish writer Elizabeth
Bowen brought a painter's sensitivity to her creative writing, incorporating
her memories and experiences into short stories and novels. Her collection is
composed largely of works and correspondence and reflects Bowen's long and
productive literary career. A small number of legal and financial papers are
also present. |
|
Extent |
13 boxes (5.42 linear feet), 1 galley folder |
|
Language: |
English |
|
Repository: |
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Elizabeth Bowen was the only child born to Henry Cole Bowen and Florence
Colley Brown. Though the place of birth on June 7, 1899, was Dublin, her family
home was Bowen's Court, near Kildorrey, County Cork, Ireland. Because of her
father's law practice, the family divided their residency between Dublin and
Bowen's Court. Elizabeth enjoyed a normal Anglo-Irish childhood with her
parents until her father suffered a nervous breakdown in 1905 when the pattern
changed. Her father was hospitalized off and on for the following few years
and, following the advice of his physician, Elizabeth and her mother moved to
England to stay with various aunts. As a child Elizabeth insulated herself from
stress by paying close attention to her childhood world of the imagination and
the part "place" played in her life. A stammar in
her speech developed at this time which stayed with her for the rest of her
life. Her father recovered by the time she was twelve, but before the family
was fully reunited her mother, diagnosed with cancer, died when Elizabeth was
thirteen. Maternal aunts, who took over her care, arranged for her to attend a
boarding school, Downe House, in Kent, from 1914 to 1917. This school played a
significant role in her development as a young woman and as a writer with its
emphasis on limiting display of one's feelings and its strong encourgement of
sociability at meals. Later Elizabeth was known as a considerate and successful
hostess.
Elizabeth enjoyed painting and drawing as a child and in 1918 studied at
the London County Council School of Art but withdrew after two terms because of
what she considered her limited ability. She was to make use of this painter's
sensitivity in her literary work, however. She had done a great deal of
creative writing while at Downe House, mainly short stories, and decided this
was her calling. She set about incorporating her memories and experiences into
her fiction. Rose Macaulay, a friend of the headmistress of Downe House, gave
her guidance and introduced her to editors, publishers, literary agents, and
others who could help a fledgling writer.
Elizabeth's first volume of short stories,
Encounters, was published in 1923, the year
she married Alan Charles Cameron, an assistant secretary for education in
Northampton. Upon his promotion to Secretary of Education for the city of
Oxford she found the intellectual atmosphere of the city conducive to her
further development as a writer. Her second volume of stories,
Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926), was
followed by her first novel,
The Hotel (1927). During her years at Oxford
Elizabeth published her second novel,
The Last September (1929), and two
collections of short fiction,
Joining Charles and Other Stories (1929) and
The Cat Jumps and Other Stories (1934), as
well as three additional novels,
Friends and Relations (1931),
To the North (1932), and
The House in Paris (1935).
In 1935 Elizabeth and Alan moved to Regent's Park in London, which
furthered her career. She began writing reviews for the
Tatler and in 1938 her novel, the
Death of the Heart, was published, followed
by
Look at All Those Roses: Short Stories in
1941. World War II played a dominant role in her writing as well as in her
life. She became an Air Raid Precautions warden which brought her into contact
with people she would not have known otherwise and opened up new avenues of
interest for her writing. Also she and Alan often experienced the effects of
the bombing raids on their own home in Regent's Park. Two of her works from
this period, her novel
The Heat of the Day (1949) and
The Demon Lover, and Other Stories (1945),
are considered by some to be among the best records of London during the
war.
After the war Elizabeth continued to write short stories and essays, and
produced three additional novels,
A World of Love (1955),
The Little Girls (1964), and
Eva Trout; or, Changing Scenes (1968) for
which she received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1970. She wrote
essays and reviews for the
Tatler, the
Cornhill Magazine, the
New Statesman and Nation, the
New Republic, the
New York Times Magazine, Harpers, and the
Saturday Review of Literature, among others,
and became associate editor of
London Magazine. After her husband's death
in 1952 she spent part of every year in the United States lecturing and working
as a writer in residence. Elizabeth Bowen died of lung cancer at her home at
Hythe in Kent on February 22, 1973.
Manuscripts and correspondence make up the bulk of the Elizabeth Bowen
Collection, 1923-1975, and reflect Bowen's literary career. The material is
organized into four series: I. Works, 1926-1975 (9.5 boxes), II.
Correspondence, 1923-1969 (2 boxes), III. Financial and Legal Papers, 1927-1947
(1 box), and IV. Miscellaneous, 1951-1967 (.5 box). Within each series the
material is arranged alphabetically by title or author. This collection was
previously accessible only through a card catalog, but has been re-cataloged as
part of a retrospective conversion project.
The Works Series consists of holograph drafts, typescripts, galley
proofs, notes, and fragments of novels, stories, articles, essays, radio
broadcasts, lectures, reviews, and translations. The Center has manuscript
holdings for the majority of Bowen's novels, including
Eva Trout (1968),
Friends and Relations (1931),
The Heat of the Day (1948),
The Hotel (1927),
The House in Paris (1935),
The Last September (1929),
The Little Girls (1963),
To the North (1932), and
A World of Love (1955). Collections of short
stories include
Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926), and
Joining Charles and Other Stories (1929); in
addition, there are manuscripts for numerous short stories which were published
separately in various periodicals; and for unfinished and unpublished works.
Manuscripts for her nonfiction works include
English Novelists (1942),
The Shelbourne (1951), and
A Time in Rome (1960). Autobiographical
works include
Bowen's Court (1942),
Pictures and Conversations (1975), published
posthumously, and
Seven Winters (1962). The radio broadcasts
were mainly for the BBC on a variety of topics ranging from literary figures,
books, and places, to plays she adapted from her stories for radio.
The Correspondence Series consists principally of letters regarding
Bowen's literary work. Outgoing letters occupy two folders and were written
chiefly to her literary agents at Curtis Brown; to various publications such as
Blarney Magazine, Contact Publications, the
Cork Examiner, and
Everybody's; and to the Golden Cockerel
Press; also to literary friends Joe Ackerley, Daniel George, Glyn Jones, and
Grover Smith. Correspondence from Bowen can also be found with incoming
correspondence as she had the habit of responding on the verso of incoming
letters.
Incoming letters are more numerous and include an extensive
correspondence from her literary agents at Curtis Brown; letters from the above
mentioned publications, as well as others; and letters from publishers Eyre
& Spottiswoode; Longmans, Green, and Co.; and Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd.
Among the literary figures represented by correspondence are C. M. Bowra, Agatha
Christie, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Cyril Connolly, A. E. Coppard, Cecil Day-Lewis,
T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Rosamund Lehmann, Rose Macaulay, Ottoline Morrell,
John Middleton Murry, Sean O'Faolain, William Plomer, Edward Charles
Sackville-West, William Sansom, Eleanor Sarton, Stephen Spender, Elizabeth
Taylor, Hugh Walpole, Evelyn Waugh, Veronica Wedgwood, H. G. Wells, Eudora
Welty, Edmund Wilson, and Virginia Woolf.
Series III, Financial and Legal Papers, includes royalty statements, tax
records, and lists of memoranda of agreement with various publishing companies
for publishing rights to Bowen's works. The small Miscellaneous Series contains
two typescripts of works by Eudora Welty,
"The Bride of the Innisfallen" and
"The Wand."
Elsewhere in the Center are eight Vertical File folders which contain
newspaper and periodical clippings of articles written by and about Bowen,
reviews of her works, and a slim envelope containing items removed from her
books, and two scrapbooks of press clippings. There is one photograph of Bowen
in the Literary File of the Photography Department. Correspondence and
manuscripts relating to the publication of
Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography by J'Nan M.
Sellery and William O. Harris are found in the Ransom Center Archives.
Access
Open for research
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Correspondents |
|
|
Bowra, C. M. (Cecil
Maurice), 1898-1971. |
|
|
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred
Edgar), 1878-1957. |
|
|
Day-Lewis, Cecil,
1904-1972. |
|
|
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas
Sterns), 1888-1965. |
|
|
Hartley, L. P. (Leslie
Poles), 1895-1972. |
|
|
Lehmann, Rosamond,
1901- . |
|
|
Macaulay, Rose,
Dame. |
|
|
Morrell, Ottoline Violet
Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938. |
|
|
Plomer, William,
1903-1973. |
|
|
Sarton, May,
1912- . |
|
|
Spender, Stephen,
1909- . |
|
|
Taylor, Elizabeth,
1912-1975. |
|
|
Waugh, Evelyn,
1903-1966. |
|
|
Wells, H.G. (Herbert
George), 1866-1946. |
|
|
Welty, Eudora,
1909- , |
|
|
Woolf, Virginia,
1882-1941. |
|
Organizations |
|
|
Curtis Brown,
Inc. |
|
Subjects |
|
|
Authors, English--20th
century. |
|
|
Ireland in
literature. |
|
|
War in literature. |
|
|
Women novelists, Irish--20th
century. |
|
|
Women and
literature--Ireland--History--20th century. |
|
Document Types |
|
|
Contracts. |
|
|
Financial
records. |
|
|
Galley proofs. |
|
|
Postcards. |
|
|
|
|
Other manuscripts and letters by Bowen can be found in the collections
of T. I. F. Armstrong, Jocelyn Brooke, A. E. Coppard, Kay Dick, Graham Greene,
Rayner Heppenstall, John Lehmann,
London Magazine, Compton Mackenzie, Carson
McCullers, Ottoline Morrell, PEN, J. B. Priestley, and R. S. Scott-James. |
Purchases and gifts, 1964-1995 (R2030, R2301, R5155, R6434, R6487,
R7629, R8477, R8478, R13296, R13494)
Sally M. Nichols, 1998
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 15
(Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1983). |
|
|
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 162
(Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1996). |
|
|
Glendinning, Victoria.
Elizabeth Bowen (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1978). |
Folder List
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Series I. Works,
1926-1975 |
|
|
|
Untitled stories |
box |
folder |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Fragment,
nd, 4pp |
|
|
|
|
About Amy Ticer,
nd, 4pp |
|
|
|
|
About Ellen Nevin,
nd, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
About Leonard Osten, two typescripts with corrections,
nd,7pp and 9pp |
box |
folder |
1 |
2 |
|
Alfred Knopf, article,
nd, 8pp |
|
3 |
|
Ann Lee's and Other Stories
(1926), nd, 179pp |
|
4 |
|
Anna, novel, chapters 1-4,
nd, 58pp |
|
5 |
|
Ar-Beg |
|
|
|
|
"The Art of Reserve; or the Art of
Respecting Boundaries," article,
nd, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
Attractive Modern Houses, story,
nd, 18pp |
|
|
|
|
Autobiographical material for the
Broadsheet, nd, 3pp |
|
|
|
|
Autobiographical note, 3 carbon copy typescripts, two
with corrections, nd, 6pp each |
|
|
|
|
Autobiographical note for
Everywoman, nd, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
Autobiographical note for
Mademoiselle, typescript with
corrections, nd, carbon copy,
1953, 2pp each |
|
|
|
|
"The Bazaar," story,
nd, 20pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Beauty of Being Your Age,"
essay,
nd, 15pp |
|
|
|
|
"Beginning of This Day," story,
nd, 4pp |
|
|
|
"Bergotte,"1971 |
box |
folder |
1 |
6 |
|
|
Notes on Proust, holograph draft,
nd, 24pp |
|
7 |
|
|
Typescript and carbon copy with revisions,
nd, 35pp each |
|
8 |
|
"Biographical Note" (1948), two carbon
copy typescripts,
1948, 1p and 2pp |
|
9-10 |
|
Bowen's Court (1942), nonfiction,
typescript with extensive revisions,
nd, 589pp |
box |
folder |
2 |
1 |
|
Bowen's Court (cont.) |
|
2 |
|
"Britain in Autumn "(1950), essay,
nd, 10pp |
|
3 |
|
Broadcasts, A-L |
|
|
|
|
"A Year I Remember - 1918,"1949, 21pp |
|
|
|
|
"Books that Grow Up with One,"1949, 6pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Confidante,"1943, 18pp |
|
|
|
|
"Crises," 1947, 9pp; agreement with
the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1947, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Cult of Nostalgia,"1951, 7pp |
|
|
|
|
"Elizabeth Bowen and Jocelyn
Brooke,"1950, 15pp |
|
|
|
|
"Elizabeth Bowen to V.S. Pritchett,"nd, 6pp |
|
|
|
|
"How I Write," a discussion between
Elizabeth Bowen and Glyn Jones,
1950, 17pp |
|
|
|
|
"Impressions of Czechoslovakia,"
typescript with corrections, nd; carbon copy, 1948, 3pp each |
|
|
|
|
Interview with Elizabeth Bowen by John Bowen, William
Craig, W. N. Ewer,
1959, 16pp |
|
|
|
|
"London Revisited as Seen by Fanny
Burney,"nd, 7pp |
box |
folder |
2 |
4 |
|
Broadcasts,
"New Judgment; Elizabeth Bowen on Jane
Austen,"typescript photocopy with corrections, 1942, 14pp; typescript
photocopy, 1948, 24pp |
|
5 |
|
"By the Unapproachable Sea," article,
1943, 2pp |
|
6 |
|
C-English Fiction |
|
|
|
|
"Christmas Games," story,
nd, 18pp |
|
|
|
|
"A Day in the Dark," article,
offprint with corrections, nd, 11pp; typescript with corrections, nd,
5pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Demon Lover," story preface,
typescript, 1945, 7pp; broadcast of a talk on BBC by Henry Reed, typescript,
1945, 3pp |
box |
folder |
2 |
6 |
|
|
"Disappointment" (1954), essay,
carbon copy typescript, nd, 3pp; carbon copy typescript with corrections, 1953,
8pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Disinherited" (1941), story,
nd, 10pp |
|
|
|
|
"Encounters," story preface,
1949, 9pp |
|
|
|
|
"English Fiction at Mid-Century"
(1953), essay, 4pp |
box |
folder |
2 |
7-8 |
|
"English Novelists," literary history,
1942, 63pp |
|
9 |
|
"Eudora Welty," article,
nd, 17pp |
|
|
|
Eva Trout (1968), novel |
box |
folder |
3 |
1-3 |
|
|
Typescript with revisions,
nd, 496pp |
|
|
|
|
Part I |
box |
folder |
3 |
4 |
|
|
|
Carbon copy with corrections,
nd, 194pp |
|
5 |
|
|
|
Rejected drafts of chapters 1-3, 5, 7, typescript and
carbon copy with revisions,
nd, 92pp |
|
6 |
|
|
|
Chapters 1-3, 5-12, typescript and carbon copy with
corrections,
nd, 257pp |
box |
folder |
4 |
1 |
|
|
Part II, chapters 1-3, typescript and carbon copy with
corrections,
nd, 186pp |
|
2-3 |
|
|
Rejected pages, typescript and carbon copies with
revisions,
nd, 343pp |
|
4 |
|
Ex-Fo |
|
|
|
|
"Exclusion" (1962), essay,
nd, 6pp |
|
|
|
|
"Fairies at the Christening," story,
nd, 21pp |
|
|
|
|
"Firelight in the Flat" (1934),
story,
nd, 12pp |
|
|
|
|
"Flowers Will Do," story,
nd, 23pp |
|
|
|
|
"Folkestone 1945" (1946), essay,
nd, 9pp |
box |
folder |
4 |
5 |
|
Friends and Relations (1931),
novel, bound holograph draft with revisions,
nd, 345pp |
|
6 |
|
G-The Good Earl |
|
|
|
|
"Ghost story," story,
nd, 11pp |
|
|
|
|
"Girlhood," essay,
nd, 8pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Good Earl" (1946), story,
typescript with emendations, nd, 16pp; typescript and carbon copy with
corrections, nd, 18pp |
box |
folder |
4 |
7 |
|
"The Good Tiger" (1964), children's
story, typescript with corrections, 1964, 10pp; typescript with emendations,
nd, 33pp; carbon copy with revisions, nd, 25pp; carbon copy with corrections,
nd, 33pp |
box |
folder |
5 |
1 |
|
"Hand in Glove" (1952), story, two
carbon copy typescripts with corrections, 1952, 14pp each |
|
|
|
The Heat of the Day (1948),
novel |
box |
folder |
5 |
2-4 |
|
|
Chapters 1-17, holograph draft and typescript with
revisions and inserts,
nd, 685pp |
|
5 |
|
|
Publisher's blurb,
nd, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
Holograph corrections to text of printed book,
nd, 13pp |
box |
folder |
5 |
6 |
|
"Her Table Spread" (1930), story,
nd, 15pp |
|
7 |
|
"Home for Christmas" (1955), essay,
nd, 12pp |
|
8 |
|
The Hotel (1927), novel, bound
holograph draft with revisions,
nd, 339pp |
box |
folder |
6 |
1 |
|
The House in Paris (1935), novel,
bound holograph draft with revisions,
nd, 365pp |
|
2 |
|
"Hungary" (1948), essay, two carbon
copy typescripts, 1948, 10pp each |
|
3 |
|
I |
|
|
|
|
"I Died of Love" (1946), story,
nd, 10pp |
|
|
|
|
"I Hear You Say So" (1945), story,
galley proof, nd, 3pp [removed to Galley Files] |
|
|
|
|
"The Idea of France" (1944),
essay, 6pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Idea of the Home," essay,
nd, 18pp |
|
|
|
|
"In the Square" (1941), story,
nd, 11pp |
|
|
|
|
Index to the Letters of Flaubert,
nd, 17pp |
box |
folder |
6 |
4 |
|
"The Inherited Clock" (1944), story,
two typescripts with revisions, nd, 22pp and 29pp |
|
|
|
Introduction to The Observer Prize stories, two galley
proofs, nd, 2pp each [removed to Galley Files] |
box |
folder |
6 |
5 |
|
"Ireland," essay,
nd, 20pp |
|
6 |
|
"Jane Austen" (1936), essay,
nd, 17pp |
|
7 |
|
Joining Charles and Other Stories
(1929), holograph draft with revisions,
nd, 254pp |
|
|
|
Kinsale, Son et Lumière |
box |
folder |
6 |
8 |
|
|
Historical notes, typescript and carbon copy,
nd, 9pp |
|
9 |
|
|
Script, carbon copy typescript with corrections, nd,
48pp; typescript photocopy, nd, 35pp |
|
10 |
|
"The Last Bus" (1944), story,
1944, 8pp |
|
|
|
The Last September (1929),
novel |
box |
folder |
7 |
1 |
|
|
Bound holograph draft with emendations,
nd, 385pp |
|
2 |
|
|
Broadcast, typescript,
1948, 3pp |
|
|
|
|
Preface to 2nd ed. (1952), typescript with revisions,
nd, 7pp |
box |
folder |
7 |
3 |
|
Lectures |
|
|
|
|
"Language," two holograph drafts,
nd, 4pp and 6pp |
|
|
|
|
Notes for lectures at Vassar College on the short story,
in two spiral notebooks,
nd |
|
|
|
|
"The Poetic Element in Fiction,"
typescript with emendations, and carbon copy,
1950, 14pp each |
|
|
|
The Little Girls (1963),
novel |
box |
folder |
7 |
4 |
|
|
Holograph notes in spiral notebook,
nd, 20pp |
|
5 |
|
|
Typescript and carbon copy, incomplete, with
emendations,
nd, 57pp |
|
6 |
|
|
Typescript and carbon copy fragments,
nd, 120pp |
|
7-9 |
|
|
Typescript and carbon copy with revisions,
nd, 466pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
1 |
|
|
Corrections, holograph draft,
nd, 9pp |
|
2 |
|
"The Little Girl's Room" (1933),
story,
nd, 20pp |
|
3 |
|
Lo-Lz |
|
|
|
|
"Look at All Those Roses" (1941),
story,
nd 14pp |
|
|
|
|
"Lost Art of Living" (1948),
essay, 8pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
4 |
|
Ma-Mi |
|
|
|
|
"Mainie Jellett" (1944), essay,
nd, 7pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Man and the Boy," story,
nd, 10pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
4 |
|
|
"Miss Jolley Has No Plans for the
Future," story,
nd, 7pp |
|
|
|
|
"Miss Willis" (1952),
essay, 3pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
5 |
|
"The Most Unforgettable Character I've
Met" (1944), essay,
nd, 18pp |
|
6 |
|
Mov-Mz |
|
|
|
|
"The Move-In," chapter 1 of an
unfinished novel,
1973, 9pp |
|
|
|
|
"Mysterious Kôr" (1944), story,
nd, 20pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
7 |
|
Now-Pa |
|
|
|
|
"Now the Day Is Over," story,
nd, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
"On Giving a Present" (1953), essay,
nd, 8pp |
|
|
|
|
"Only Young Once," story,
nd, 10pp |
|
|
|
|
"Opening up the House" (1945),
essay,
nd, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
"Outrageous Ladies" (1956), essay,
typescript with revisions, carbon copy,
nd, 6pp and 8pp |
|
|
|
|
"Paris Peace Conference: 1946,"
essay,
nd, 7pp |
|
|
|
|
"Paris Peace Conference: Some
Impressions," essay,
nd, 12pp |
|
|
|
Pictures and Conversations (1975),
memoirs |
box |
folder |
8 |
8 |
|
|
Holograph notes, in three spiral notebooks,
nd, 16pp |
|
9 |
|
|
Chapter I, Origins |
|
|
|
|
|
Holograph in notebook,
nd, 9pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Typescripts,
nd |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fragment, 1p |
|
|
|
|
|
|
With revisions, 36pp |
|
|
|
|
|
With emendations, 34pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
10 |
|
|
Chapter II, Places, holograph draft and typescript with
revisions, nd, 12pp; typescript and carbon copy draft fragments, nd, 27pp;
typescript and carbon copy with corrections, nd, 23pp each |
|
11 |
|
|
Chapter III, People, typescript and carbon copy with
corrections, nd, 7pp; typescript, trial endings, nd, 3pp; typescript draft
fragments, nd, 11pp |
|
12 |
|
Prefaces to |
|
|
|
|
North and South by Elizabeth
Gaskell,
1951, 7pp |
|
|
|
|
Persuasion by Jane Austen,
typescript with emendations and carbon copy,
nd, 9pp each |
|
|
|
|
The Second Ghost Book, ed. by
Cynthia Asquith, typescript, nd; and carbon copy, 1952, 4pp each |
|
|
|
|
The Stories and Poems of Elizabeth Bibesco,
nd, 6pp |
|
|
|
|
Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, two
carbon copies with corrections,
1949,4pp each |
box |
folder |
8 |
13 |
|
R |
|
|
|
|
"Reduced" (1935), story,
nd, 16pp |
|
|
|
|
"Regent's Park and St. John's Wood"
(1949), contribution to
Flower of Cities, ed. by Max
Parrish, two typescripts with emendations, nd, 6pp and 8pp; two carbon copies
with emendations, 1949, 8pp and nd, 9pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
14 |
|
|
Reviews of |
|
|
|
|
|
Arnold Bennett by Reginald
Pound, entitled
"Celebrity," two carbon copy
typescripts with corrections, 1952, 4pp each |
|
|
|
|
|
Dr. E. OE. Somerville, a Biography,
by Geraldine Cummins, entitled
"The Big Master," 1952,
4pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Dublin: 1660-1860 by Maurice
Craig,
nd, 3pp |
|
|
|
|
|
The Fire in the Dust by Francis
Macmanus, entitled
"Fire and Water,"nd, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Ireland and the Irish by Charles
Duff, entitled
"Come to Ireland,"1952, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
|
James Joyce's Dublin by Patricia
Hutchins, entitled
"Immortal City,"nd, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Late Arrival by Martha Edith
Almedingen,
1952, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Portrait of a Genius, But... by
Richard Aldington,
1950, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Sheridan le Fanu by Nelson
Browne, entitled
"The Land Behind,"nd, 3pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
14 |
|
|
|
Wait Now! by Rachel Knappett,
entitled
"Explorer,"1952, 2pp |
|
|
|
|
|
A Writer's Diary by Virginia
Woolf, entitled
"What I Now Want To Do...,"nd, 5pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
15 |
|
Seven Winters (1962),
autobiographical, two typescripts with corrections, nd, 25pp and 26pp; carbon
copy with corrections, nd, 26pp |
|
16 |
|
Sh-Sti |
|
|
|
|
The Shelbourne (1951),
nonfiction, chapter I,
"Today," nd, 8pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Short Story in England" (1945),
essay, two carbon copy typescripts, one with corrections, 1945, 8pp
each |
|
|
|
|
"Songs My Father Sang Me" (1944),
story,
nd, 14pp |
|
|
|
|
"Sources of Influence" (1953),
essay,
nd, 4pp |
|
|
|
|
"Still the Moon," story,
nd, 5pp |
box |
folder |
8 |
17 |
|
"The Story of the Nativity of Jesus; a
Reflection," play,
nd, 44pp |
box |
folder |
9 |
1 |
|
T-Th |
|
|
|
|
"A Thing of the Past" (1944), story,
nd, 4pp |
|
|
|
|
"Thoughts in New York" (1950),
essay, 9pp |
|
|
|
A Time in Rome (1960),
nonfiction |
box |
folder |
9 |
2 |
|
|
Prelims, 1960, holograph draft and printer's mock-up;
typescript and carbon copy, 4pp each |
|
|
|
|
Chapters 1-2, nd, holograph draft with revisions, 52pp;
holograph and typescript versions with revisions and inserts, 79pp |
box |
folder |
9 |
3 |
|
|
Chapter 1,
"The Confusion," typescript,
incomplete, with corrections, nd, 17pp; typescript, nd, 28pp; two carbon copies
with revisions, nd, 16pp and 21pp |
|
4 |
|
To the North (1932), novel, bound
holograph draft with revisions,
nd, 461pp |
|
5 |
|
"The Tommy Crans" (1930), story,
boxed,
nd, 13pp |
|
6 |
|
"Toys" (1944), essay, carbon copy
typescript with corrections, 7pp |
|
7 |
|
Translations of |
|
|
|
|
"Colère" by Jacques de Lacretelle,
nd, 28pp |
|
|
|
|
"L'Education Sentimentale" by
Flaubert,
nd, 17pp |
box |
folder |
9 |
8 |
|
|
The Letters of Flaubert, typescript, nd, 38pp;
incomplete typescript, nd, 14pp; carbon copy with corrections, nd,
40pp |
|
9 |
|
|
Le Temps Retrouvé by Marcel
Proust |
|
|
|
|
|
Vol. I, p. 7, holograph draft with corrections, nd,
7pp; typescript with corrections, nd, 5pp |
|
|
|
|
|
Vol. II, pps. 9-261, holograph with corrections, nd,
48pp; carbon copy typescript with corrections, nd, 31pp |
box |
folder |
9 |
10 |
|
|
"Was It an Art?," essay, typescript,
nd, 9pp |
|
11 |
|
|
"Why Do I Write?," an exchange of
views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and V. S. Pritchett (1948),
composite holograph draft, typescript, and carbon copies,
nd, 97pp |
|
12 |
|
|
"Woman's Place in the Affairs of
Man" (1961), article, typescript with emendations, 4pp |
box |
folder |
10 |
1 |
|
|
"Women in Love," nd, story,
typescript with corrections, 26pp; incomplete carbon copy, nd, 21pp |
|
2-3 |
|
|
A World of Love (1955), novel,
chapters I-XI, typescript with revisions and inserts,
nd, 318pp |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Series II. Correspondence,
1923-1969 |
|
|
|
Subseries A. Outgoing,
1931-1966 |
box |
folder |
10 |
4 |
|
|
A-Z |
|
5 |
|
|
Curtis Brown Ltd.,
1944-1961 |
|
|
|
Subseries B. Incoming,
1923-1969 |
box |
folder |
10 |
6 |
|
|
Unidentified; A-C |
box |
folder |
11 |
1-4 |
|
|
Curtis Brown Ltd.,
1924-1964 |
|
5 |
|
|
D-I |
|
6 |
|
|
J-M |
|
7 |
|
|
N-R |
|
8 |
|
|
Plomer, William,
1935-1963, nd |
box |
folder |
12 |
1 |
|
|
S-Z |
|
2 |
|
|
Sarton, Eleanor May,
1936-1938 |
|
3 |
|
|
Welty, Eudora,
1951, nd |
|
4 |
|
|
Woolf, Virginia,
1932-1939, nd |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Series III. Financial and Legal Papers,
1927-1947 |
box |
folder |
12 |
5-6 |
|
Financial records,
1944-1956 |
|
7 |
|
List of memoranda of agreement in the collection,
nd |
|
|
|
Memoranda of agreement with |
box |
folder |
12 |
8 |
|
|
A-B |
|
|
|
|
|
Albatross Verlag,
1935-1938 |
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bonnier, Ltd.,
1943-1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
1932-1941 |
|
|
|
|
|
Arnaldo Mondador,
1945-1946 |
box |
folder |
13 |
1 |
|
|
C-K |
|
|
|
|
|
Constable and Co., Ltd.,
1927-1929 |
|
|
|
|
|
Det Schonbergske Forlag,
1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
The Dial Press,
1927-1947 |
|
|
|
|
|
The Director of Information Services of the Control
Office for Germany and Austria,
nd |
|
|
|
|
|
E. Mawby Green and Edward Allan (or Allen) Feilbert,
1940-1943 |
|
|
|
|
|
Les Editions de Jenune Parque,
1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Ernst G. Mortensens Forlag,
1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Fontaine,
1945 |
|
|
|
|
|
His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
1947, nd |
|
|
|
|
|
The House in Paris, Inc.,
1943 |
|
|
|
|
|
Humphrey Milford, publisher to the University of
Oxford,
1945 |
|
|
|
|
|
Jonathan Cape, Ltd.,
1940-1947 |
box |
folder |
13 |
2 |
|
|
L-Z |
|
|
|
|
|
Librarie Gallimard,
1939 |
|
|
|
|
|
Librarie Plon,
1938 |
|
|
|
|
|
Longmans, Green, and Co., Ltd.,
1939-1943 |
|
|
|
|
|
Luis de Caralt,
1944-1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Maurice Fridberg,
1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Oxford University Press,
1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Penguin Books,
1945 |
|
|
|
|
|
Sfinx,
1946 |
|
|
|
|
|
Strand Film Company, Ltd.,
1942 |
|
|
|
|
|
Victor Gollancz, Ltd.,
1931-1938 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Series IV. Miscellaneous,
1951-1967 |
box |
folder |
13 |
3 |
|
Welty, Eudora |
|
|
|
|
"The Bride of the Innisfallen,"
typescript with corrections,
1951, 42pp |
|
|
|
|
"The Wand," typescript with
corrections,
nd, 10pp |
box |
folder |
13 |
4 |
|
Envelopes and folders |
Index entries followed by the notation (from Bowen) indicate people to
whom Bowen wrote. Box and folder numbers followed followed by a number in
parenthesis indicate the number of items by (or to) that person. No
parenthetical notation indicates there is just one item.
So in the example:
Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967--10.4 (from Bowen), 10.6
(3)
there is one item from Bowen in box 10, folder 4; and three items from
Ackerley in box 10, folder 6.
- Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967--10.4 (from Bowen), 10.6
(3)
- Aguilar, F. W. d'--10.6
- Asquith, Cynthia, Lady, 1887-1960--10.6
- Bayley, John--10.6
- Benson, Stella, 1892-1933--10.6
- Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906- --10.6 (2)
-
Blarney Magazine--10.4 (from Bowen),
10.6
- Bowes-Lyon, Lilian Helen, 1895-1949--10.6
- Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971--10.6 (6)
- British Broadcasting Corporation--10.6 (6; 2 from Bowen)
- British Council--10.4 (2 from Bowen), 10.6 (3)
- Brooke, Jocelyn--10.6
- Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 1908- --10.6
- Cameron, A. C.--10.6
- Charleville Historical and Archaeological Society--10.6 (2; 1 from
Bowen)
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976--10.6
- Colefax, Sibyl Halsey, Lady, d. 1950--10.6
- Collins, Norman, 1907- --10.6
- Compton-Burnett, I. (Ivy), 1884-1969--10.6 (5)
- Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974--10.6
- Contact Publications Ltd.--10.4 (from Bowen)
- Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957--10.6 (10)
-
The Cork Examiner (Cork, Ireland)--10.4
(from Bowen), 10.6
-
Cornhill Magazine--10.6
- Crankshaw, Edward--10.6
- Curtis Brown Ltd.--10.5 (204 from Bowen), 11.1-4 (467)
- Curzon, Clifford, 1907- --10.6
- Day-Lewis, Cecil, 1904-1972--11.5 (12)
- Day-Lewis, Jill--11.5
- Dublin University--See Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
-
The Editor Magazine--11.5
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--11.5 (12)
-
Everybody's (London)--10.4 (from Bowen),
11.5 (2)
- Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd.--11.5
-
Family Doctor--11.5
- George, Daniel--10.4 (from Bowen), 11.5
- George Allen & Unwin--11.5
- Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958--See Golden Cockerel Press
- Golden Cockerel Press--10.4 (5 from Bowen), 11.5 (8)
- Great Britain. Control Office for Germany and Austria--10.4 (from
Bowen), 11.5
- Great Britain. Foreign Office--10.4 (3 from Bowen), 11.5 (2)
- Greene, Graham, 1904- --11.5
- Groves, John Stuart--10.4 (from Bowen)
- Hampshire, Stuart, 1914- --11.5 (3)
- Hartley, L. P. (Leslie Poles), 1895-1972--11.5 (12)
- Hayward, John, 1905-1965--11.5 (5)
- Higgins, Claire Macfarlane--See Macfarlane, Claire
- Hopkins, Gerard, 1892- --11.5 (6)
- Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942--11.5
- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975--11.5
- Iowa. University. Iowa Writers' Workshop--See Iowa Writers'
Workshop
- Iowa Writers' Workshop--11.5 (2; 1 from Bowen)
- Irish Housewives Association--10.4 (2 from Bowen), 11.5 (4)
-
Irish Writing--11.5
- James Barrie Books Ltd.--11.6
- Jameson, Storm, 1897- --11.6
- Jenkins, Elizabeth, 1907- --11.6 (2)
- Jones, Glyn, 1905- --10.4 (4; 3 from Bowen)
- Kendall, William Sergeant, 1869-1938--11.6
- Kennedy, Margaret, 1896-1967--11.6 (6)
- Laskowsky, Birgit--11.6
- Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901- --11.6 (17)
- London School of Economics and Political Science. Arts Club--11.6
(2; 1 from Bowen)
- Longmans, Green, and Co.--11.6
- Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938--11.6 (3)
- Macaulay, Rose, Dame--11.6 (11)
- MacCarthy, Desmond, 1877-1952--11.6
- Macfarlane, Claire, 1906- --10.4 (from Bowen), 11.6 (2)
- Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953--11.6
- Mayne, Ethel Colburn, d. 1941--11.6
- Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady,
1873-1938--11.6 (8)
- Morris, Mrs.--9.12
- Mortimer, Raymond, 1895-1980--11.6 (5)
- Murdoch, Iris, 1919- --11.6
- Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957--11.6
- Myers, Elizabeth, 1912-1947--11.6 (2)
-
News Chronicle (London, England)--11.7
- O'Faolain, Sean, 1900- --11.7 (3)
- Origo, Iris, 1902- --11.7
- Oxford University. Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies--See
University of Oxford
- Oxford University Press--11.7
- Piper, David--11.7
- Plomer, William, 1903-1973--11.8 (36)
- Pritchett, V. S. (Victor Sawdon), 1900- --11.7 (4)
- Robinson, Lennox, 1886-1958--11.7 (4)
- Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama--11.7 (2; 1 from
Bowen)
- Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945--11.7
- Royde-Smith, Naomi--11.7 (3)
- Sackville-West, Edward, Hon., 1901-1965--12.1 (6)
- Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962--12.1
- Salisbury, Cicely Alice (Gore) Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness
of--12.1 (2)
- Sansom, William, 1912- --12.1 (2; 1 from Bowen)
- Sarton, May, 1912- --12.2 (9)
- Schonbergske Forlag--12.1 (2; 1 from Bowen)
- Sedgwick, Anne Douglas, 1873-1935--12.1
- Shand, William, 1902- --10.4 (from Bowen)
- Sharpe, Violet--12.1
- Sidgwick, Ethel, 1877- --12.1 (3)
- Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.--12.1 (9; 1 from Bowen)
- Smith, Grover--10.4 (4 from Bowen)
- Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946--12.1
-
The Spectator (London, England)--12.1
(2)
- Spender, Stephen, 1909- --12.1 (12)
-
Sunday Chronicle (London, England)--12.1
(2; 1 from Bowen)
-
Tatler and Bystander--12.1 (3)
- Taylor, Elizabeth, 1912-1975--12.1 (12)
-
The Times Literary Supplement--12.1 (2;
1 from Bowen)
- Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Elizabethan Society--10.4 (from
Bowen), 12.1
- Unidentified author--10.6
- University of Oxford. Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies--10.4 (4
from Bowen), 12.1 (4)
- Vaughan College--10.4 (2 from Bowen), 12.1 (2)
- Walker, H. J.--12.1
- Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941--12.1
- Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966--12.1 (5)
- Wedgwood, C. V. (Cicely Veronica), 1910- --12.1 (2)
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--12.1 (8)
- Welty, Eudora, 1909- --12.3 (16)
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972--12.1
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--12.4 (38)
|