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  • 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

  • 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

  • Early Printed Books

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    19Works
    Description:
    The Early Printed Books Collection is comprised of materials printed in the West from the 15th to the 18th centuries, highlighting works printed during the hand-press period held at UVic Libraries and partner institutions. The collection also includes incunabula (books...
    Subject
    Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    books

  • 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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    1Works
    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

  • John Betjeman Collection

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    112Works
    Description:
    The John Betjeman Collection is comprised of selections from the <a href="https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/john-betjeman-fonds">John Betjeman Archives</a> held at the University of Victoria Libraries. John Betjeman (1906–1984) was a British...
    Subject
    Arts and Culture, Authors, and Literature
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence