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BUTLER, Gwendoline Williams (b 1922) (pseud. Jennie Melville)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0505 PP32

Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London

Title: BUTLER, Gwendoline Williams (b 1922) (pseud. Jennie Melville)

Date(s): 1981

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Butler | Gwendoline Williams | b 1922 | writer | pseudonym Jennie Melville

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

Publications: As Jennie Melville - A different kind of summer (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1967); A new kind of killer, an old kind of death (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1970); Burning is a substitute for loving (Michael Joseph, London, 1963); Come home and be killed (Michael Joseph, London, 1962); Ironwood (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1972); Murderers' houses (Michael Joseph, London, 1964); Nell alone (Michael Joseph, London, 1966); Nun's Castle (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1974); Raven's Forge (Macmillan, London, 1975); The summer assassin (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1971); There lies your love (Michael Joseph, London, 1965); The hunter in the shadows (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1969); Dragon's eye (Macmillan, London, 1977); Axwater (Macmillian, London, 1978); Murder has a pretty face (Macmillan, London, 1981); The painted castle (Macmillan, London, 1982); The hand of glass (Macmillan, London, 1983); Listen to the children (Macmillan, London, 1986); Death in the garden (Macmillan, London, 1987); Windsor red (Macmillan, London, 1988); A cure for dying (Macmillan, London, 1989); Witching murder (Macmillan, London, 1990); Footsteps in the blood (Macmillan, London, 1990); Dead set (Macmillan, London, 1992); Whoever has the heart (Macmillan, London, 1993); Baby drop (Macmillan, London, 1994); The morbid kitchen (Macmillan, London, 1995); The woman who was not there (Macmillan, London, 1996); Revengeful death (Macmillan, London, 1997).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript and typescript drafts, preliminaries and proof copy of Murder has a pretty face (Macmillan, London, 1981).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Unsorted

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:

Unlisted

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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No information at present.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Fiction | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Publishing | Publishing industry
Women authors | Authors

Personal names
Butler | Gwendoline Williams | b 1922 | writer | pseudonym Jennie Melville x Melville | Jennie

Corporate names

Places