Women authors, English
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Louisa Matilda Crawford, nee Montagu
Fonds — Box CLX-A-336
Identifier: Coll-1839
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of loose leaf songs and poems, letters, notes, 10 stitched booklets and a manuscript notebook all relating to, or produced by, Louisa Matilda Jane Crawford (1789-1857) a songwriter. There is both professional correspondence relating to the publication of her work and personal love letters between herself and her husband. Most of the records date from the latter half of Louisa’s life, when she was married, living in London and earning an income through her songwriting....
Dates:
1650-1930; Majority of material found within c 1789-c 1857
Typescript entitled "A Lost Night" by Nancy Cunard, c 1920-1921
Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0148
Scope and Contents
This is an eight-page typescript of a previously unknown story from the early 1920s, written by Nancy Cunard. This short, well-written piece is the only fiction Cunard is known to have written, and is set in Paris in the beginning of the 1920s. It relates the unravelling of a relationship between the narrator and Leo, a ‘casual loitering adventurer’, told from a self-aware female perspective. It reveals much of the author's' thinking on relationships, sexuality and emotional involvements;...
Dates:
c 1920-1921