Authors Collection, 1845-1912

12 boxes; 4 volumes (4.75 linear ft.)

Collection number: MS 443

Abstract:

The Authors Collection contains small amounts of material on a number of women writers from the U.S. and abroad. Types of materials include biographical writings, articles, reviews, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials. There are also some letters, manuscripts and photographs. A large portion of the collection relates to author Margaret Mitchell, and her book and the movie, Gone With the Wind. Other authors represented include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Doris Lilly, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tillie Olsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf.

Terms of Access and Use:

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Restrictions on use:

Permission to publish quotations for publication beyond "fair use" must be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection.

Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA

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.

This collection is organized into four series:

I. GENERAL
II. COUNTRIES
III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
IV. POETRY

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Restrictions on use:

Permission to publish quotations for publication beyond "fair use" must be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Authors Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

History of the Collection

Materials in this subject collection were either purchased or given to the Sophia Smith Collection by various donors. Portions of the Margaret Mitchell materials were purchased and presented to the Sophia Smith Collection by Frank Neely and Rachel Schlesinger Neely (Smith class 1907).

Accruals:

Periodic additions to the collection are expected and may not be reflected in this finding aid..

Additional Information

Contact Information

Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063

Phone: (413) 585-2970
Fax: (413) 585-2886

Email Reference Form: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/emailform.html
URL: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/

Language

English.

SERIES I. GENERAL

Bibliographies

"Women Writers"		Box 1: folder 1

"Neglected American Women Writers"		Box 1: folder 2

"Women and Literature"		Box 1: folder 3

Digging Out - Lost Voice of New England Women Writers (New England Women Writers Project),	1978	Box 1: folder 4

Miscellaneous articles and fliers on women authors		Box 1: folder 4

SERIES II. COUNTRIES

General: clippings			Box 1: folder 5

Canada			Box 1a: folder 1

England

General			Box 1a: folder 2

Berners, Dame Juliana			Box 1a: folder 3

Carroll, Lewis: "The Real Alice"			Box 1a: folder 4

France

Beauvoir, Simone de			Box 1a: folder 5

de Staël, Madame			Box 1a: folder 6

Collette, Sidonie Gabrielle			Box 1a: folder 7

Sand, George			Box 1a: folder 8

Germany			Box 1a: folder 9

Italy			Box 1a: folder 10

Netherlands			Box 1a: folder 11

Japan			Box 1a: folder 12

Norway			Box 1a: folder 13

Portugal: Margarida Ofelia Avelar de Carvalho			Box 1a: folder 14

Spain			Box 1a: folder 15

Sweden: Selma Lagerlöf			Box 1a: folder 16

SERIES IV. POETRY

General; poetry reviews		Box 8: folder 1-4

Margaret Mitchell

General [see also book on shelf]

University of Georgia Libraries: information on Mitchell collection		Box 9: folder 1

Letter from Mildred Thompson to Margaret Storrs Grierson		Box 9: folder 1

Smith College Libraries Annual Report: description of Mitchell Collection		Box 9: folder 1

Clippings about Gone With the Wind		Box 9: folder 2

Clippings about Margaret Mitchell		Box 9: folder 3

Gone With the Wind: articles and pamphlets		Box 9: folder 4

Smith College Scholarship Fund		Box 9: folder 5

Photographs: Smith College, publicity, and miscellaneous		Box 9: folder 6

Correspondence (to and from Margaret Mitchell)

Clark, Annetta and Mary,	1936, 1939	Box 9: folder 7

Dick, Jackson P. (including review of Gone With The Wind),	1937	Box 9: folder 8

Draper, Jesse: letters written during WWII to friend, describing life in wartime Atlanta,	1941-45	Box 9: folder 9-10

Dunn, Harris A.,	1936	Box 9: folder 11

Grierson, Margaret Storrs,	1942	Box 9: folder 12

Harris, Julia Collier,	1936, 1947	Box 9: folder 13

Harris, Julian,	1936-37	Box 9: folder 14

Thompson, Mildred,	1937-38	Box 9: folder 15

Plattner, Gladys (Lee),	1936, 1940	Box 9: folder 16

Hill, Edith (Editor of Smith Alumnae Quarterly)	1936	Box 9: folder 17

Neely, Rachel S.,	1907	Box 9: folder 18

Hungarian movie magazine,	circa 1937	Box 9: folder 19

Rachel Schlesinger Neely to her daughter Rachel Neely Parker about Margaret Mitchell,	1939	Box 9: folder 20

Gone With the Wind (Motion Picture Edition),	1939	Box 9: folder 20

Lorde, Audre: conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin (orginally recorded for Essence magazine, December 1984 issue): audio recording, transcript, correspondence, and notes,	1983
Restrictions on access: [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. 1869,	1876

Margaret Mitchell Commemorative Stamps (US Post Office),	1986

SERIES III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

Adams, Hannah		Box 2: folder 1

Alcott, Louisa May

General		Box 2: folder 2

Louisa M. Alcott, Her Life, Letters and Journals, edited by Ednah D. Cheney		Box 2: folder 2

Alexander, Francesca		Box 2: folder 3

Allinson, Anne C.E.		Box 2: folder 4

Baldwin, Faith		Box 2: folder 5

Barr, Amelia E.		Box 2: folder 6

Bates, Katherine Lee		Box 2: folder 7

Bottome, Phyllis		Box 2: folder 8

Bowen, Catherine Drinker		Box 2: folder 9

Brachen, Peg		Box 2: folder 10

Bradstreet, Anne		Box 2: folder 11

Brontë;, Charlotte and family		Box 2: folder 12

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Penini (son)		Box 2: folder 13

Buck, Pearl S.		Box 2: folder 14

Burnett, Constance Buell		Box 2: folder 15

Cary, Alice and Phoebe		Box 2a: folder 1

Cather, Willa S.

General and photograph		Box 2a: folder 2

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletters,	1962-76	Box 2a: folder 2a

Cheney, Ednah Dow		Box 2a: folder 3

Child, Lydia Maria: correspondence, clippings, and Letters from New York ()	1845	Box 2a: folder 4

Cleghorn, Sarah N.		Box 2a: folder 5

Converse, Florence		Box 2a: folder 6

Creevey, Caroline Althea		Box 2a: folder 6a

d'Arona, Florence Roosevelt: photograph		Box 3: folder 1

De la Ramée, Louisa		Box 3: folder 2

Dickinson, Emily		Box 3: folder 3-4

Diver, Maud

Bibliography		Box 3: folder 5

Letters		Box 3: folder 6

Illustration for Royal India		Box 3: folder 7

Dodge, Mary Mapes		Box 3: folder 8

Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley		Box 3: folder 9

Elliot, George		Box 3: folder 10

Evans, Anne [see also book on shelf]		Box 3: folder 11

Fairfield, Genevra		Box 3: folder 12

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield		Box 3: folder 13

Fry, Anne		Box 3: folder 14

Fuller, Carol: typed copy of Vestal Flame		Box 3: folder 15

Fuller, Margaret		Box 3: folder 16

Gale, Zona		Box 3: folder 17

Gardener, Helen Hamilton (Alice Chenowith Day)		Box 3: folder 18

Gardner, Isabella Stewart		Box 3: folder 19

Genlis, Felicite Ducrest Contesse de		Box 3: folder 20

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell		Box 3: folder 21

Hall, Evelyn Beatrice		Box 3: folder 22

Hamilton, Edith		Box 3: folder 23

Harper, Frances E.W.		Box 3: folder 24

Hobart, Alice Tisdale		Box 3: folder 25

Lilly, Doris: How to Make Love in Five Different Languages (manuscript)		Box 4: folder 1

Jackson, Helen Hunt		Box 5: folder 1

Jewett, Sarah Orne		Box 5: folder 2

Larcom, Lucy

General		Box 5: folder 3

A New England Girlhood ()	1890	Box 5: folder 3a

Lazarus, Emma		Box 5: folder 4

Leitch, Mary Sinton		Box 5: folder 5

Lerner, Gerda		Box 5: folder 6

Levertov, Denise		Box 5: folder 7

Lilly, Doris [see box 4]

Lorde, Audre [see box 10]

Lowell, Amy		Box 5: folder 8

Macaulay, Catharine		Box 5: folder 9

Macaulay, Rose: letter to M. Nicolson		Box 5: folder 10

Martineau, Harriet		Box 5: folder 11

Millay, Edna St. Vincent		Box 5: folder 12

Mitchell, Margaret [see box 9]

Mitchison, Naomi		Box 5: folder 13

Mitford, Mary Russel		Box 5: folder 14

Moore, Julia A.		Box 5: folder 15

Norris, Kathleen		Box 5: folder 16

O'Conner, Flannery		Box 5: folder 17

Olsen, Tillie		Box 5: folder 18

Ostenso, Martha		Box 5: folder 19

Prairie Bird, pseud.		Box 5: folder 20

Pratt, Annies		Box 5: folder 21

Rand, Ayn		Box 5: folder 22

Randall, Margaret		Box 5: folder 23

Resse, Elizabeth Phelps, Countess		Box 5: folder 24

Richards, Laura		Box 5: folder 25

Sachs, Emanie		Box 6: folder 1

Sampter, Jessie E.		Box 6: folder 2

Sayers, Dorothy L.: letter to M. Nicolson		Box 6: folder 3

Schreiner, Olive		Box 6: folder 4

Sitwell, Edith		Box 6: folder 5

Stein, Gertrude		Box 6: folder 6

Stephens, Ann Sophia		Box 6: folder 7

Sterling, Dorothy		Box 6: folder 8

Stern, G.B.: letter to M. Nicolson		Box 6: folder 9

Stowe, Harriet Beecher		Box 7: folder 1

Susann, Jacqueline: Every Night, Josephine		Box 7: folder 2

Swenson, May		Box 7: folder 3

Teasdale, Sara		Box 7: folder 4

Todd, Mabel Loomis		Box 7: folder 5

Todd, Mary Ives		Box 7: folder 6

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart		Box 7: folder 7

Wells, Carolyn: verse		Box 7: folder 8

Wharton, Edith Newbold		Box 7: folder 9

Wheatley, Phillis		Box 7: folder 10

Whitman, Walt: letter to Mary (Smith) Costelloe Berenson (photostat)		Box 7: folder 11

Wiggin, Kate Douglas		Box 7: folder 12

Woolf, Virginia		Box 7: folder 13

Zangwill, Israel		Box 7: folder 14

Ziegler, Marianne		Box 7: folder 15