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Elizabeth Hardwick

December 9, 2015, Filed Under: Research + Teaching

Commitment 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.

October 21, 2015, Filed Under: Authors

Coleccionismo comprometido

Undated photograph of Mailer with wife Beatrice Silverman. Unknown photographer.

Cuando se busca en tiempo atrás los orígenes de las bibliotecas de investigación, damos con una larga historia de académicos dedicados a recabar colecciones de acuerdo a su interés personal, construyendo en torno suyo ateneos de libros que documentaran sus muy particulares metas de investigación. Y muchas veces, cuando dicho… read more 

July 22, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts

Ransom Center acquires Jon R. Jewett collection of Elizabeth Hardwick materials

Letter from Elizabeth Hardwick to Jon R. Jewett, dated January 21, 1991. Copyright © 1991 The Elizabeth Hardwick Estate, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

The Ransom Center recently acquired a collection of letters and photographs relating to novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007), co-founder of The New York Review of Books and one of the most brilliant literary critics of the late-twentieth century. The newly acquired material complements Elizabeth Hardwick’s archive, which she donated… read more 

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