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Women authors.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Alison Lurie papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-2572
Abstract

Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926-December 3, 2020) was an American novelist. The Alison Lurie papers (bulk 1937-2020) contains notes, drafts, and proofs of books by Lurie; notes and manuscripts of short stories and other unpublished works; personal journals and diaries; and correspondence.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1937 - 2020; 1911 - 2020

Elfrieda Hochbaum papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2606
Scope and content Manuscript copies of Hochbaum's published and unpublished novels and short stories, including Burning Arrows, her autobiography; The Deer, a semi-fictional account of Zina Dusenberry, a farmer who lived in Dusenberry Hollow, Dryden, New York, including an epilogue by Hochbaum's daughter, Elfrieda Pope Bestelmeyer; and other works. Also, 36 notebooks of Elfrieda Hochbaum (1913-54); photographs of Dusenberry family members; articles, including some concerning women's suffrage; and a microfilm...
Dates: [ca. 1906-1963]

Florence Woolsey Hazzard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2516
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, notes and bibliographies, printed matter, photographs, and other papers dealing mainly with Hazzard's studies of eminent American women.

Dates: 1819-1976,-1925-1965 (bulk)

Hilda Sachs papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 68 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065308748]
Identifier: 6323
Scope and content

Correspondence with Lynd Ward relating to the manuscript of a story by Sachs, and illustrations for the story by John P. Heims.

Dates: 1941.

Hyde family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1670
Abstract

Largely correspondence and other papers of Florence Elise Hyde of Ithaca, New York, relating to her literary activities, her support of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and her interest in national politics and American foreign policy.

Dates: 1863-1957.

Katherine Camp Mayhew papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6561
Abstract Papers consist of source material gathered for THE DEWEY SCHOOL: THE LABORATORY SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1896-1903, a book by Katherine Camp Mayhew and her sister Anna Camp Edwards, a colleague at the school. Included are twelve logbooks containing weekly reports on curriculum, classroom activities, and student progress, 1896-1902; drafts, notes, and correspondence relating to specific chapters of the book, ca. 1896-1934; syllabi, course outlines, clippings of articles about the...
Dates: [ca. 1896-1949],-[ca. 1896-1902] (bulk)

Letters by nineteenth century women authors

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065353934]
Identifier: 6454
Scope and content 76 letters by 19th century women authors to their publishers and editors regarding the writing and publication of their works. Correspondents include: R. Bentley, George Bentley, Mrs. Alexander, Matilda Betham-Edwards, Courteney Grant, Fredrika Bremer, Rhoda Broughton, B. H. Buxton, Rosa Nouchette Carey, Mary Cholmondeley, Marie Corelli, Henrietta Duff, Georgiana Fullerton, Theo Gift, Anna Maria Hall, Mrs. Humphries ("Rita"), Harriet Jay, Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, Julia Kavanagh, Fanny...
Dates: 1851-1917.

Louise Spieker Rankin papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1438
Abstract

Thirty-eight letters from Rankin mainly to her mother concerning social life, household management, and travels to India where her husband, Everett H. Rankin, was a Standard Oil representative; a notebook of information she collected on Indian trees; and her diary. Also, her unfinished biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey and a letter from Romeyn Berry.

Dates: 1937-1952.

Margaret Morse Nice papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2993
Scope and content Personal correspondence and manuscripts, and professional papers including subject files, correspondence, reports and manuscripts of articles related to Margaret Morse Nice's term as associate editor of "Bird Banding" and of the "Wilson Bulletin"; manuscripts for articles, lectures, radio broadcasts, etc. on ornithology; pictures and photographs; notes and drawings; printed pamphlets; and abstracts of writings by others. Correspondents include Olin Sewall Pettingill, Josselyn Van Tyne,...
Dates: 1917 - 1968

Mary Anita Ewer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2624
Scope and content Includes correspondence (1922-1936) between Ewer and Cornell University Professor Edward L. Nichols, Tsutomu Tanaka, and others, concerning her work in preparing physics research for publication, together with pertinent charts, notes, and reports; letters from Ernest Merritt and D. T. Wilber, with whom she also worked, and from editors of scientific publications; correspondence (1925-1935) with Julia K. Sommer, who was associated with the Theosophical World-University, clergymen, and others,...
Dates: 1922-1936.