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HARRADEN, Beatrice (1864-1936)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0505 PP6

Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London

Title: HARRADEN, Beatrice (1864-1936)

Date(s): [1893]-1928, [1996]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Harraden | Beatrice | 1864-1936 | writer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1864; educated in Dresden, Germany, Cheltenham Ladies College, Gloucestershire, and Queen's College and Bedford College, London; travelled extensively on the continent and in the USA; member of London literary circles; actively interested in the women's' rights movement; received a civil list pension in recognition of her literary work, 1930; died 1936.

Publications: Two health-seekers in Southern California (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1897) with W A Edwards; preface to Nature rambles in London (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1908); A new book of the fairies (Griffith and Farran, London, [1891]); Concerning 'Ships that pass in the night' (S.S. McClure, London, [1894]); Hilda Stafford and the Remittance Man (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1897); In varying moods (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1894); Interplay (Methuen and Co, London, 1908); Katherine Frensham: a novel (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1903); Master Roley (F. Warne and Co, London and New York, 1889); Our warrior women (Witherby and Co, London, 1916); Out of the wreck I rise (Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1912); Patuffa (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1923]); Rachel (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1926]); Search will find it out (Mills and Boon, London, 1928); Ships that pass in the night (Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1893); Spring shall plant (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1920); The fowler (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1899); The guiding thread (Methuen and Co, London, 1916); The scholar's daughter (Methuen and Co, London, 1906); Things will take a turn (Blackie and Son, London, [1889]); Thirteen all told (Methuen and Co, London, 1921); Untold tales of the past (Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1897); Where your treasure is (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1918); Youth calling (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1924]).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bound manuscript copy of Harraden's article 'A Californian story', first published in Blackwood's Magazine, [and later published in book form as Two health-seekers in Southern California (Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1897)]; manuscript of sections of Out of the wreck I rise (Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1912); pen with which Harraden wrote Ships that pass in the night (Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1893); handwritten biographical notes on Harraden.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 items

Conditions governing access:

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

The family donated the collection to the Bedford College Archives in 1938-1939. The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.

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ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

The Royal Holloway, University of London Archives also hold information relating to Harraden in the Bedford College Register of Students, 1881-1885 (BC AR201); Bedford College Governors' correspondence, 1929-1926, (BC AR386/1/3); and the Bedford College Magazine, Jul 1899 and Jun 1915 (BC AS903).

Bodleian Library, Oxford University, holds letters to Arthur St John Adcock (Ref: MS Eng lett c478), 1899-1916, and Evelyn (Adelaide) Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Hornsey (Ref: MS lett c277); National Library of Scotland has letters, 1883-1900, to Blackwoods Publishers (Ref: MSS 4445-4719); Queen's University of Belfast Library holds letters to Otto Kyllmann; the Brotherton Library, Leeds University, contains letters to Clement King Shorter; the Fawcett Library, London Guildhall University, holds letters, 1925-1931, to a Miss Solomon.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.