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  • 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

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    2Collections
    75Works
    Description:
    This collection showcases a selection of nineteenth-century handwritten documents (manuscripts) from Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries dating from roughly 1800 to 1900. Documents such as artwork, autograph albums, letters,...
    Subject
    Literature, Arts and Culture, and Authors
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents), scrapbooks, and correspondence

  • 20th Century Manuscripts Collection

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    1Collections
    4Works
    Description:
    This collection showcases a selection of twentieth-century handwritten documents (manuscripts) from Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries dating from roughly 1900 to 1999.
    Subject
    Authors, Arts and Culture, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    manuscripts (documents), correspondence, and diaries

  • 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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    1Collections
    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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    1Collections
    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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    1Collections
    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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    1Collections
    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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    1Collections
    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

  • Douglas Goldring Collection

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    2Collections
    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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    1Collections
    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