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  • Aidan Higgins Collection

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    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...
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    Arts and Culture, Literature, and Authors
    Location
    Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents)

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

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    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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    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

  • 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

  • Eric Gill Collection

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    3Works
    Description:
    The Eric Gill Collection is comprised of items from the <a href="https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/eric-gill-collection">Eric Gill Archives</a> held at the University of Victoria Libraries. Eric Gill (1882–1940) was an English artist, craftsman,...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture and Artists
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Ezra Pound Collection

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    69Works
    Description:
    Ezra Loomis Pound was a major twentieth century poet, critic and translator. He was born in Idaho and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He went to England in 1908, living in London from 1908 to 1920 and became closely acquainted with T. S. Eliot and other...
    Subject
    Authors, Literature, and Arts and Culture
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents) and correspondence

  • F.T. Prince Collection

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    Description:
    Frank Templeton Prince (1912-2003) was an English poet and academic. The collection consists of a handwritten letter to John Lehmann (dated 1940), together with a handwritten, signed poem "The Hanging Church". Lehmann has written a note on the top of the...
    Subject
    Authors, Arts and Culture, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Gisèle Freund Photographs of James Joyce in Paris

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    Description:
    This exhibit features a series of photographs taken of James Joyce during his last years in Paris. The photographs were taken by Gisèle Freund and feature Joyce, his friends, family, and contemporaries including W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller and Virginia Woolf....
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Authors, and Artists
    Location
    Paris, Île-de-France, France
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • Herbert Read Collection

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    382Works
    Description:
    Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) was a poet, art historian, anarchist, literary critic, philosopher, prolific author, and champion of modern artists in Britain. This collection consists of his correspondence with many important and influential individuals including...
    Subject
    Anarchism, Authors, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    United Kingdom, , United Kingdom
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence