Margaret Forster: Have the Men Had Enough? Mss (part 1)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript draft (pp. 1-188). The following note, handwritten by Margaret Forster, appears at the bottom of page 1: 'wrote this out again as it was a mess and didn't quite finish in the same length - doesn't happen again'. Probably a note for the typist.
Material relating to Margaret Forster's novel Have the Men Had Enough? (1989), as follows: Manuscript. Typescript. Uncorrected proof. Advertising poster.
Margaret Forster: Have the Men Had Enough? Mss (part 2)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript draft (pp. 189-316). The file also includes some editorial notes and a note from Margaret Forster to Marion [Davies, her sister in law] asking her opinion on the novel and not to show it to anyone else.
Bound uncorrected proof, 25 October 1988, with handwritten corrections in pencil [by Margaret Forster] and handwritten note [by the publisher] on the cover 'Return by 7th November please'.
Material relating to the U.S. edition of the book, including: Press reviews (originals and photocopies). Front of book cover, mounted on a piece of cardboard Two cover letters from the senior editor at Doubleday, sending Margaret Forster the reviews and copies of the book, 1991.