Writings and enclosed material by others, Corthay- Crowden
Scope & Content:
Partly printed, partly autograph material by Sylvain Corthay, Lumière Volèe (2ff. and 1 volume); Lewis Creed (1f. and 1 volume) and James Crowden, In Time of Flood (1f. and 1 volume).
Material relating to the administration of the Plath Estate and to publication of Plath's work. Also includes some original Plath drafts and a set of bibliographic index cards.
Typewritten letters and photocopy of the printed Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 with annotations relating to the publication of the volume in French.
Material written about Hughes's literary work, including material relating to The Epic Poise: a celebration of Ted Hughes, which was edited by Nick Gammage, and workbooks for school children.
Mainly typewritten and printed with some autograph material. Contains literary criticism of Hughes's work, which was sent to him by academics and scholars, some with accompanying letters. Material is arranged alphabetically by author as follows - 'Casualties of War', 'The Nature of the Goddess: T...
The bulk of the collection comprises literary manuscripts, in successive drafts, for The Sweet Shop Owner, Shuttlecock, Learning to Swim, Waterland, Out of This World, Ever After, Last Orders, The Light of Day, Tomorrow, and Making an Elephant, with some uncollected short fiction and various non...
Various non-fiction items, comprising reviews of film, theatre and fiction, essays, the texts of talks delivered at conferences and literary festivals, and occasional short statements on writing fiction. Some items appeared in Making an Elephant (2009) but many are uncollected.
Autograph manuscript and typescript text for a lecture delivered at a conference in Nice (Société des Anglicistes de L'Enseignement Supérieur), 17 May 1997. With a letter of thanks from the Président of the Société, Adolphe Haberer (29 June 1997), referring to subsequent publication in the Bulle...