![W. & D. Downey (British, active 1855–1940), [Mary Cornwallis West], ca. 1880. Albumen print with applied color (cabinet card), 6 ½ x 4 ¼ in. Gernsheim collection, 964:0488: 0002, f TR 655.11 C525 HRC-P](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2016/05/Web_Mrs.-Cornwallis-West-in-hand-colored-purple-dress-in-hammock-768x1069.jpg)
Before Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929) became a stage actress, she was known as one of London’s “professional beauties.”
Fellows Find
Fellows Find: Hear inside Stella Adler’s studio
Scott Balcerzak is Associate Professor of film and literature at Northern Illinois University. He was supported by the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies and is currently writing a book on Stella Adler and male movie stars.
Book Balls, fox-trots, and boeuf bordelaise: The early history of international P.E.N.
In the course of researching how South Asian writers circulated in literary London between the World Wars, I spent some time immersed in the Harry Ransom Center’s expansive P.E.N. archive.