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  • Agnes Deans Cameron Collection

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    1Collections
    1Works
    Description:
    The collection consists of two photograph albums comprised of photographs taken during Cameron's travels up the Mackenzie River with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown, May to September, 1908, and photographs taken during Cameron's trip to Britain, 1909-1911. There...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels and Authors
    Location
    Great Britain, England, United Kingdom and Canada, , Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums and photographs

  • Aidan Higgins Collection

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    20Works
    Description:
    Aidan Higgins (1927-2015) was an Irish novelist and writer, whose works include short stories, travel memoirs, essays, autobiographical fiction, and several dramas for BBC Radio 3 and RTÉ Radio 1. Born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, Higgins’ upbringing and...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Literature, and Authors
    Location
    Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents)

  • Alexander Hutchison Collection

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    13Works
    Description:
    Alexander ("Sandy") Hutchison (1943-2015) was born in Buckie, Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1966, after graduating from Aberdeen University, in order to teach in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. (UVic). He took a leave of...
    Subject
    Authors, Arts and Culture, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents) and notebooks

  • Audrey Alexandra Brown Collection

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    115Works
    Description:
    According to a family friend, Audrey Alexandra Brown "showed early signs of some kind of ability" from a very young age. She was born in Nanaimo, B.C. in 1904, never went to high school, but wrote her first poem when she was six years old. Her work was brought...
    Subject
    Authors and Literature
    Location
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents) and poetry

  • Barbara Hepworth Letters to Herbert Read - University of Leeds and University of Victoria

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    102Works
    Description:
    This collection consists of letters from Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) to Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968). Sir Herbert Read was a poet, art historian, anarchist, literary critic, philosopher, prolific author and champion of modern artists in Britain. Dame Barbara...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Artists, Authors, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Brocard Sewell Collection

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    5Works
    Description:
    Father Brocard Sewell (1912-2000) was a British Carmelite friar, a literary critic, and editor of the journal, "The Aylesford Review". The Brocard Sewell Collection is comprised of correspondence from Eric Gill to Clare Pepler dating from 1924 to 1925, which...
    Subject
    Authors and Arts and Culture
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Card from Kathleen Raine to Robin Skelton, [1970?]

    Subject
    Wiccans, Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003, Poets, Poets, English, Novelists, Editors, Skelton, Robin, Authors, Periodical editors, Literature, Modern, Critics, Novelists, English, Authors, English, and Scholars
    Creator
    Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
    Contributor
    Skelton, Robin
    Language
    eng
    Date created
    1970?
    Rights Statement
    In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
    Resource Type
    Text
    Extent
    2 pages
    Physical Repository
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection
    Robin Skelton Collection
    Provider
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre
    greeting cards and correspondence
    Archival Item Identifier
    Accession Number: 1990-074; File: 7.1
    Fonds Title
    Robin Skelton fonds
    Fonds Identifier
    SC114
    Is Referenced By
    Special Collections finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robin-skelton-fonds
    Date Digitized
    2022-10-20
    Technical Note
    Scanning and metadata by Rowan O'Brian and additional metadata by SC.

  • Douglas Goldring Collection

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    56Works
    Description:
    Douglas Goldring (1887–1960) was a British writer and journalist. He left Oxford University without a degree in 1906 and subsequently served on the editorial staff of "Country Life", sub-editor under Ford Madox Ford of "The English Review", and edited...
    Subject
    Authors, Arts and Culture, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • E.M. Forster Collection

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    18Works
    Description:
    E. M. Forster (1879-1970), British novelist and essayist, is perhaps best known for his novels, which include Howards End (1910), A Room With A View (1911), and A Passage To India (1924). He attended King's College, Cambridge (1897–1901) and was a member of the...
    Subject
    Authors, Literature, Arts and Culture, and Voyages and travels
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Else Lübcke Seel Digital Collection

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    432Works
    Description:
    <b>Else Lübcke Seel (1894-1974)</b> Else Lübcke Seel was born in 1894 in Schivelbein, Pomerania. After the end of World War I, she moved with her mother and aunt to Berlin, where she worked in the archives of a bank. She began writing and became well-known...
    Subject
    Authors and Voyages and Travels
    Location
    British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence