More than 100 items relating to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning Virginia novelist Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), accumulated by the scholar Monique Parent [Frazee] as research for her dissertation Ellen Glasgow, Romancier [Paris, 1962], described by William W. Kelly in his Glasgow bibliography as "the most comprehensive study of Ellen Glasgow and her novels." The archive includes: A photograph, original silver print, of the most familiar portrait of Glasgow; two typed notes signed from James Branch Cabell, fellow Virginia novelist and close friend of Glasgow's, written to Parent in September and October, 1954; a typed letter signed from John Dos Passos, dated October, 1954 and with hand-addressed envelope, agreeing to see Parent and providing directions to his Westmoreland VA home; autograph note signed and typed note signed, respectively, to Parent Frazee from Irita Van Doren, Glasgow's literary executor, and Oliver Steele at the University of Virginia, each praising the final dissertation; original carbon typescript of Ellen Glasgow, a Feminist? by Monique Parent Frazee; thirteen typescript or holograph copies of stories, articles and book reviews published by Glasgow from 1917-1937, plus one transcribed story, "Only a Daisy" that claims to be her first fiction, written at age 7; a typed copy of her rare 1902 collection, The Freeman and Other Poems, apparently produced by Parent for private distribution; a typed list, on University of Richmond stationery, of "Portraits of Ellen Glasgow in Periodicals, Etc," with dates from 1900 to 1949; two family trees for Ellen Glasgow, created by Parent, tracing the family back to the 1700s; several dozen clippings of reviews of Glasgow's autobiography and works about Glasgow, and including one copy of a 1928 article by Glasgow and a 1954 clipping about Parent Frazee's work on her dissertation. [#026037] SOLD

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