Pauline Avery Crawford Papers
, 1902-1997
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 379
Collection number: MS 379
Terms of Access and Use:
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
This collection has not been fully processed.
Copyright to unpublished materials may be owned by the creator, or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Pauline Avery Crawford was born in Cortland, NY on 8 Aug 1890, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Educated at Goucher College, she taught for a year before her 1913 marriage to John Raymond Crawford, an archaeology professor at Columbia and Lafayette Colleges; together, they had two sons, William (b. 1915) and Jack (b. 1921). She and her husband separated in the mid-1920s (he later committed suicide in 1929) and she and her two sons went to Europe. As an American living in Paris from 1926 until her death in 1952, Crawford wrote for English-speaking publications, reporting on the Paris scene for, first Vogue magazine, then the International Herald Tribune where she documented the impact of World War II in verse and prose, including her own column, "Our Times in Rhyme" (1946-51). After several years of failing health, including the loss of a leg after a botched operation in 1931, Crawford died in Paris 14 Jan 1952.
Numerous unpublished manuscripts, as well as some published material by and about Pauline Avery Crawford whose writing career focused especially on the impact of World War II as seen through the eyes of an American living in Paris throughout the war.
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The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
This collection has not been fully processed.
Copyright to unpublished materials may be owned by the creator, or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
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Pauline Avery Crawford Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Periodic additions to collection are expected and may not be reflected in this record.