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October 15, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Recent acquisitions

Filed Under: Cataloging Tagged With: acquisition, acquistions, archives, Ben Bradlee, collections, Harry Ransom Center, John Jones, Miller Williams

Poet, translator, and editor Miller Williams (1930–2015) is known for writing poetry in plainspoken language that captured meaning in everyday experiences. The Ransom Center recently acquired his archive, which documents the career and writings of this influential American poet.

April 17, 2014 - Richard Oram

Drawing parallels: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” and Julia Stephen’s “Notes from Sick Rooms”

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Photography Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, acquistions, Books, Duncan Grant, Edward Burne-Jones, Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Prinsep Duckworth, Julia Stephen, Minny Thackeray, New Criterion, Notes from Sick Rooms, pathography, Quentin Bell, Sir Leslie Stephen, T. S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, W. M. Thackeray

Quentin Bell’s biography of Virginia Woolf begins with a famous sentence: “Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen.” Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was an eminent critic and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; his first wife was W. M. Thackeray’s daughter Minny. The second Mrs. Stephen, Woolf’s mother, was… read more

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