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    <title>Elizabeth Madox Roberts papers, 1921-1941</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Roberts, Elizabeth Madox</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1881-1941</namePart>
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  <language>
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  <abstract>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  Includes drafts of her published and unpublished novels, short stories, and poems.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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>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.</note>
  <note>Author, poet, and novelist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013006">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013006</note>
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    <topic>Agrarians (Group of writers)</topic>
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    <topic>American fiction</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American literature</topic>
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American poetry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Floods</topic>
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
    <geographic>Louisville</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Short stories, American</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Kentucky</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Louisville (Ky.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
    <topic>Intellectual life</topic>
    <temporal>1865-</temporal>
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    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Novelists</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Poets</occupation>
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