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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 89161 Level [40] File

181. Add MS 89161/6/30

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: 'Going the Distance' (brief historical biographies of ten women)
Scope & Content:
Undated material (perhaps for broadcast?). Brief historical biographies (typed, 20 sheets), and a set of autograph notes (7 sheets, source not indicated), on the lives of ten women. The title 'Going the Distance' is only given at the head of the notes, and is followed by the comment that 'They f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1990s]
Extent:
1 file

182. Add MS 89161/6/31

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (notes made from diaries)
Scope & Content:
Detailed autograph notes derived from Bakewell's diaries (Add MS 89161/2) for the years 1951-1989. Followed by thematic notes entitled 'Structure'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 2000]
Extent:
1 file

183. Add MS 89161/6/32

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about Stockport and Manchester)
Scope & Content:
A file of background material about Stockport and Manchester, particularly in relation to Bakewell's family history, assembled during the course of writing her autobiography. The file includes: 'Revisiting Manchester': autograph notes (25 sheets from notepad) dated 10 October 2001. Chetham's Sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974-2003
Extent:
1 file

184. Add MS 89161/6/33

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about Cambridge academics)
Scope & Content:
Background material about academic figures associated with Cambridge, and with Newnham College in particular. Assembled by Bakewell during the course of writing her autobiography. Includes other figures of the period and some general material on the 1950s. The file comprises: Arthur Cecil Pigou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-2001
Extent:
1 file

185. Add MS 89161/6/34

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (Background material late 1950s/1960s)
Scope & Content:
Material gathered during the course of writing The Centre of the Bed (2003). W. S. Merwin (New York Times, 1995, downloaded from the internet 2001) and Ted Hughes (Dido Merwin, 'Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath', Appendix to Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame). Dido Merwin's account has been a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968-2002
Extent:
1 file

186. Add MS 89161/6/35

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about the Harry Roy Band)
Scope & Content:
Material relating to the Harry Roy Band, which played on board RMS Alcantara when Bakewell travelled with her parents to Argentina in 1938. See Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed (2003), Chapter 3. The file comprises: 10 issues of The Bugle Call Rag (Newsletter of the Harry Roy Appreciation Societ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-2001
Extent:
1 file

187. Add MS 89161/6/36

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed ('Depression')
Scope & Content:
In a file entitled 'Depression' (file title retained), a single sheet of autograph notes referring to William Styron, Darkness Visible (1990) and to Albert Camus. The remainder of the file comprises (unmarked) photocopied excerpts from Styron, Darkness Visible (Chapter 4), and Andrew Solomon, Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2001]
Extent:
1 file

188. Add MS 89161/6/37

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (material by and relating to Harold Pinter)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, photographs (Pinter's interview on Late Night Line-Up) and various items by and concerning Harold Pinter in relation to his appearance in Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed (2003). (1). Correspondence: David Hare. Two typed letters signed (18 August and 11 October 1996). The first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-2010
Extent:
1 file

189. Add MS 89161/6/38

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (biographical notes concerning Bakewell and Pinter, and records of conversations)
Scope & Content:
Autograph and some typed notes by Bakewell, chronicling the history of her relationship with Harold Pinter in preparation for drafting The Centre of the Bed. The notes include records of conversations with him in 1995-6 and 2001-2. (1). 'Chronology'. List of dates and events in Bakewell's and P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976-2002
Extent:
1 file

190. Add MS 89161/6/39

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (various notes)
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring-binder, complete with subject dividers. The contents comprises a mixture of autograph notes and some background material derived from the internet. Topics include family history, childhood, school, and Cambridge. The final section of notes is headed 'My Generation' and relates ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1952-2002
Extent:
1 file