Elizabeth Madox Roberts papers, 1921-1941.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 500 items; 10 containers; 4 linear feetSubject(s): - Agrarians (Group of writers)
- American fiction -- 20th century
- American literature -- Southern States
- American poetry
- Floods -- Kentucky -- Louisville
- Literature
- Short stories, American
- Kentucky -- History
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Louisville (Ky.) -- History
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Authors
- Novelists
- Poets
Open to research.
Drafts, notes, outlines, proofs, and other papers reflecting Roberts's influence as a regional writer in southern renaissance literature and her contribution to the agrarian literary revival of the 1920s and 1930s. Includes drafts of her published and unpublished novels, short stories, and poems. Also includes Roberts's research material pertaining to the history of Kentucky and the Louisville flood of 1937 and her mother's reminiscences of life in Kentucky before and during the Civil War.
Autographed printed copy of In the Great Steep's Garden: Poems by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1915) transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Author, poet, and novelist.
Collection material in English.
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