Signe Toksvig papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3796

Scope and content

Collection includes Toksvig's scrapbook from her student years at Cornell University; and her husband, Francis Hackett's correspondence with Hendrik Willem van Loon (Cornell University Class of 1905). Also, a 438-page manuscript autobiography by Signe Kirstine Toksvig entitled "Free Lances," ca.1976, and a taped interview with her by Sarah Elbert, taped in Aarhus, Denmark in 1978.

Dates

1912-1960.

Creator

Toksvig, Signe, 1891-1983. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Signe Kirstine Toksvig was born February 14, 1891 in Denmark. She received her B.A. at Cornell University in 1916, and from then until 1920 she was assistant editor with the New Republic. Her books include HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, EVE'S DOCTOR, PORT OF REFUGE, and LIFEBOAT, and she was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow for the writing of a biography of Emanuel Swedenborg. She has written articles for the American-Scandinavian Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Review, the Nation, the New Statesman, and the New Republic.