December 15, 2015, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the StaffMeet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides who lead daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with exhibition curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization… read more
December 9, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingCommitment to collecting Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.
December 8, 2015, Filed Under: FilmAnother view of Scarlett O’Hara Ten years after the release of Gone With the Wind, actress Vivien Leigh modeled real-life, historic nineteenth-century clothes for pioneer fashion historian and Byron scholar Doris Langley Moore for the publication The Woman in Fashion (1949).
December 3, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school Dr. Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, was a fellow at the Ransom Center during the summer of 2015. His research was supported by the Fred W. Todd Southern Literature Endowment Fund. Munro is at work on a book entitled “Our only ‘felt’ history”: American… read more
December 1, 2015, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsArrival of Dame Edith Evans papers The Harry Ransom Center has recently acquired a large collection of papers from the late actress Dame Edith Evans (1888-1976) from the estate of Bryan Forbes, who was Evans’s biographer and directed in her in a number of projects
December 1, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsFrank Reaugh’s preferred medium Isabella Savage is a Westlake High School student who spent the fall semester as an intern with Curator of Art Peter Mears to help gather and organize data related to the materials in the exhibition Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West. Isabella met with Peter two hours… read more
