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Papers of LGBT pioneers to be digitized

January 3, 2019 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Ransom Center will digitize the papers of British author Radclyffe Hall and partner, artist Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge, thanks to a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

More than 38,500 images from their papers will be digitized and made available online following the 20-month project. The papers include Hall’s notebooks and drafts for her 1928 novel “The Well of Loneliness,” a landmark work in lesbian literature. Materials related to the censorship of “The Well of Loneliness” demonstrate how the novel made lesbianism visible to a broad public despite the official ban in England.

Teachers, students, and community groups will benefit from having online access to the papers of two early pioneers in the movement to promote awareness, understanding, and protection of LGBTQIA+ rights and freedoms. The materials will serve as an important resource for scholars of 20th-century modernist literature, cultural studies, history, women’s and gender studies, art history, and LGBTQIA+ studies.

A page from Radclyffe Hall’s handwritten manuscript of “Stephen,” which was published as “The Well of Loneliness,” ca. 1926–1927. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Papers, 13.1, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

The project is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“The richness and depth of this material goes well beyond the subsequent censorship and cultural controversies sparked by “The Well of Loneliness,” and we’re grateful to the Council on Library and Information Resources for recognizing the significance of this project,” said Ransom Center Director Steve Enniss.  

 

Radclyffe Hall’s scrapbook containing clippings about the suppression and censorship of “The Well of Loneliness,” 1928. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Papers, 24.3, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

The papers document Hall’s career as a writer, Troubridge’s work as a sculptor and translator, and their personal and creative partnership. Their writings, correspondence, and diaries offer insight into a broad range of subjects including gender identity, lesbianism and sexuality; spiritualism and religion; and sociopolitical movements spanning the two world wars.

“Hall and Troubridge are internationally recognized as LGBTQ pioneers, and it is vitally important that audiences around the globe have access to their papers now and in the future,” said Jana Funke, senior lecturer in medical humanities at the University of Exeter. “Making these materials available online will significantly aid the development of new research and scholarship.”

Sport & General Press Agency, Ltd ., Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall with their dachshunds Fitz-John Wotan and Fitz-John Thorgils of Tredholt at Crufts Dog Show, 1923. Gelatin silver print, 10.2 x 16.5 cm. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Papers, 25.5, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

The Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge papers were acquired between 1960 and 1999. Hall’s papers account for about 60 percent of the material and include handwritten notebooks and typescript drafts for 10 novels and 30 short fiction and prose works, correspondence, business papers, photographs, and scrapbooks.

One hundred and thirty-one diaries from 1930 to 1951 form the core of Troubridge’s papers. Among her entries are those after Hall’s death in 1943, written in the form of letters to Hall. Also included are correspondence, drafts of Troubridge’s biography of Hall, literary translations, and photo and clipping albums

 

A page from one of Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge’s day books, March 10, 1932. Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Papers, 27.1, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

 

Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge’s notes for “Biography of Radclyffe Hall.” Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Papers, 34.2, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

The Hall and Troubridge papers will be accessible online in January 2021.

Filed Under: Featured1 Tagged With: CLIR, Council on Library and Information Resources, literature, Radclyffe Hall, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge papers, The Well of Loneliness, Una Troubridge

Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized

April 28, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

Mel Gussow and Edward Albee at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, December 13, 1979.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Ransom Center a “Recordings at Risk” grant for $24,600, supporting the project “Preserving the Interview Recordings of Mel Gussow, American and British Theater Critic.” The Ransom Center holds the Gussow (1933-2005) papers. [Read more…] about Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Al Hirschfeld, Arthur Miller, audiotape, Caffe Cino, cassette, CLIR, Council on Library and Information Resources, David Hare, David Mamet, digital collections portal, Edward Albee, interviews, Joseph Papp, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Kline, LaMaMa, Lanford Wilson, Laurence Olivier, Living Theatre, Mel Gussow, Meryl Street, New York Times, playwright, Public Theatre, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett, Sigourney Weaver, theater, Tom Stoppard, Woody Allen

I shout for a flower

March 21, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

Gabriel García Márquez autographing a wine barrel, 2005. Photographer unknown.

An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive [Read more…] about I shout for a flower

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archive, autograph, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digitized, doodle, drawings, flower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jullianne Ballou, manuscript, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Plinio Mendoza, Sharing Gabo with the World

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

February 27, 2017 - Ryan Blake

The author and his wife selecting the artwork for the cover of Crónica de una muerte anunciada; photographer and date unknown.

In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, author, Bill Clinton, Books, Carlos Slim, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Colombia, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital archive, digitization, family photographs, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, GRA, grant, literature, Manuscripts, photo album, photographs, Ryan Blake, scrapbooks, Shakira, Sharing Gabo with the World

The magically real digital archive of Gabriel García Márquez

August 23, 2016 - Jullianne Ballou

Photograph courtesy of Austin Bat Cave.

In December 2015, the Council on Library and Information Resources granted the Harry Ransom Center a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to scan more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive.

[Read more…] about The magically real digital archive of Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archives, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital collections, digitization, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, grant, Mirador, philanthropy, Sharing Gabo with the World, students

Award supports digitization of more than 24,000 images from the Gabriel García Márquez archive

January 4, 2016 - Jennifer Tisdale

An album labeled "Un viaje de Xochimilco," opened to photographs of Gabriel García Márquez with author Carlos Fuentes and others, undated. Photographs by Fabrizio Leon.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has granted the Harry Ransom Center a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to digitize more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive. [Read more…] about Award supports digitization of more than 24,000 images from the Gabriel García Márquez archive

Filed Under: Digital Collections Tagged With: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Mirador Image Viewer

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