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Add MS 89289/1/15
- Record Id:
- 040-003399702
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003441246
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057499391.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89289/1/15
- Title:
- On Novels, Novelists and Biographers: Notes and Drafts
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph draft in a notebook labelled Novelists & Biographers, with 7 pages under the heading 'Writing About Human Beings', for a university lecture event. Also contains:
• An undated postcard from Michael Holroyd
• A photographic print of John Ruskin
• Printed details about the lecture [1993 or 1999?]. As well as the above notebook, there are notes and drafts on ‘Where Novels Come From’ and ‘How Novels Work’.
The date period assigned to this material was gained from information in Hermione Lee's biography of Fitzgerald and from information in the notes themselves.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003441246
033-003399541
036-003399544
037-003399560
040-003399702 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89289 : Penelope Fitzgerald Archive
Add MS 89289/1-6 : Papers of Penelope Fitzgerald
Add MS 89289/1 : Works
Add MS 89289/1/10-21 : Non-fiction
Add MS 89289/1/15 : On Novels, Novelists and Biographers: Notes and Drafts - Hierarchy:
- 032-003441246[0001]/033-003399541[0001]/036-003399544[0002]/037-003399560[0006]/040-003399702
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89289
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1990
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- [1990s]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Parts of the notes in this file have appeared in different publications and so permissions for use will need to be sought, dependent on the nature of that intended use. See Lee, Hermione, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), pp. 376 and 468 (note 11) in the first instance.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Holroyd, Michael de Courcy Fraser, Knight, biographer, b 1935