HARRADEN, Beatrice (1864-1936)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0505 PP6 |
Held at | : Royal Holloway, University of London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/archives › |
Full 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 |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
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 & 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.
Finding aids:
Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.
Archival Information
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.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Allied Materials
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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Publication note:
Description Notes
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:
Feb 2000
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