Gone With the Wind

mnsss176 Authors Collection, 1845-1986 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Katie Kowinski. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

2004

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Collection Overview Authors Collection1845-1986 MS 443 12 boxes; 4 volumes (4.75 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

The Authors Collection contains small amounts of material on a number of women writers from the U.S. and abroad. Types of materials include biographical writings, articles, reviews, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials. There are also some letters, manuscripts and photographs. A large portion of the collection relates to author Margaret Mitchell, and her book and the movie, Gone With the Wind. Other authors represented include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Doris Lilly, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tillie Olsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf. English. Scope and Contents of the Collection

Gertrude Stein, ca. 1900

The Authors Collection is comprised of bibliographies of women writers, both from the U.S. and abroad; general files on women authors by country; and files on individual authors and poets. In a few cases there are typescripts of an author's works, photographs, biographical information, newspaper clippings, and some reviews. The collection dates approximately from 1845 to 1976. Individual authors represented include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tillie Olsen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf, among others. There is one complete manuscript, How to Make Love to a Man in Five Languages, by Doris Lilly. A substantial section on Margaret Mitchell includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and correspondence about Mitchell, the publication of Gone With the Wind, the release of the movie, and efforts of the Atlanta Smith Club to raise money for Margaret Mitchell scholarships to send Georgia women to Smith. Correspondence includes letters from Mitchell to Julia Collier Harris and her husband Julian Harris (circa 1936-47), both newspaper editors who, together, received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for their editorials in the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer-Sun against the Ku Klux Klan.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into four series:

I. GENERAL II. COUNTRIES III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS IV. POETRY Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Permission to publish quotations for publication beyond "fair use" must be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Authors Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Additions to the Collection

Periodic additions to the collection are expected and may not be reflected in this finding aid..

History of the Collection

Materials in this subject collection were either purchased or given to the Sophia Smith Collection by various donors. Portions of the Margaret Mitchell materials were purchased and presented to the Sophia Smith Collection by Frank Neely and Rachel Schlesinger Neely (Smith class 1907).

Search Terms Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 Lorde, Audre Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949--Correspondence Authors--Biography--Sources Women authors--Biography--Sources SERIES I. GENERAL Bibliographies 1 1 "Women Writers" 1 2 "Neglected American Women Writers" 1 3 "Women and Literature" 1 4 Digging Out: Lost Voice of New England Women Writers (New England Women Writers Project)1978 1 4 Miscellaneous articles and fliers on women authors SERIES II. COUNTRIES 1 5 General: clippings 1a 1 Canada England 1a 2 General 1a 3 Berners, Dame Juliana 1a 4 Carroll, Lewis: "The Real Alice" France 1a 5 Beauvoir, Simone de 1a 6 de Staël, Madame 1a 7 Collette, Sidonie Gabrielle 1a 8 Sand, George 1a 9 Germany 1a 10 Italy 1a 11 Netherlands 1a 12 Japan 1a 13 Norway 1a 14 Portugal: Margarida Ofelia Avelar de Carvalho 1a 15 Spain 1a 16 Sweden: Selma Lagerlöf SERIES III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS 2 1 Adams, Hannah Alcott, Louisa May 2 2 General 2 2 Louisa M. Alcott, Her Life, Letters and Journals, edited by Ednah D. Cheney 2 3 Alexander, Francesca 2 4 Allinson, Anne C.E. 2 5 Baldwin, Faith 2 6 Barr, Amelia E. 2 7 Bates, Katherine Lee 2 8 Bottome, Phyllis 2 9 Bowen, Catherine Drinker 2 10 Brachen, Peg 2 11 Bradstreet, Anne 2 12 Brontë;, Charlotte and family 2 13 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Penini (son) 2 14 Buck, Pearl S. 2 15 Burnett, Constance Buell 2a 1 Cary, Alice and Phoebe Cather, Willa S. 2a 2 General and photograph 2a 2a Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletters 1962-76 2a 3 Cheney, Ednah Dow 2a 4 Child, Lydia Maria: correspondence, clippings, and Letters from New York1845 2a 5 Cleghorn, Sarah N. 2a 6 Converse, Florence 2a 6a Creevey, Caroline Althea 3 1 d'Arona, Florence Roosevelt: photograph 3 2 De la Ramée, Louisa 3 3-4 Dickinson, Emily Diver, Maud 3 5 Bibliography 3 6 Letters 3 7 Illustration for Royal India 3 8 Dodge, Mary Mapes 3 9 Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley 3 10 Elliot, George 3 11 Evans, Anne

[see also book on shelf]

3 12 Fairfield, Genevra 3 13 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield 3 14 Fry, Anne 3 15 Fuller, Carol: typed copy of Vestal Flame 3 16 Fuller, Margaret 3 17 Gale, Zona 3 18 Gardener, Helen Hamilton (Alice Chenowith Day) 3 19 Gardner, Isabella Stewart 3 20 Genlis, Felicite Ducrest Contesse de 3 21 Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell 3 22 Hall, Evelyn Beatrice 3 23 Hamilton, Edith 3 24 Harper, Frances E.W. 3 25 Hobart, Alice Tisdale 4 1 Lilly, Doris: How to Make Love in Five Different Languages (manuscript) 5 1 Jackson, Helen Hunt 5 2 Jewett, Sarah Orne Larcom, Lucy 5 3 General 5 3a A New England Girlhood 1890 5 4 Lazarus, Emma 5 5 Leitch, Mary Sinton 5 6 Lerner, Gerda 5 7 Levertov, Denise Lilly, Doris

[see box 4]

Lorde, Audre

[see box 10]

5 8 Lowell, Amy 5 9 Macaulay, Catharine 5 10 Macaulay, Rose: letter to M. Nicolson 5 11 Martineau, Harriet 5 12 Millay, Edna St. Vincent Mitchell, Margaret

[see box 9]

5 13 Mitchison, Naomi 5 14 Mitford, Mary Russel 5 15 Moore, Julia A. 5 16 Norris, Kathleen 5 17 O'Conner, Flannery 5 18 Olsen, Tillie 5 19 Ostenso, Martha 5 20 Prairie Bird, pseud. 5 21 Pratt, Annies 5 22 Rand, Ayn 5 23 Randall, Margaret 5 24 Resse, Elizabeth Phelps, Countess 5 25 Richards, Laura 6 1 Sachs, Emanie 6 2 Sampter, Jessie E. 6 3 Sayers, Dorothy L.: letter to M. Nicolson 6 4 Schreiner, Olive 6 5 Sitwell, Edith 6 6 Stein, Gertrude 6 7 Stephens, Ann Sophia 6 8 Sterling, Dorothy 6 9 Stern, G.B.: letter to M. Nicolson 7 1 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 7 2 Susann, Jacqueline: Every Night, Josephine 7 3 Swenson, May 7 4 Teasdale, Sara 7 5 Todd, Mabel Loomis 7 6 Todd, Mary Ives 7 7 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart 7 8 Wells, Carolyn: verse 7 9 Wharton, Edith Newbold 7 10 Wheatley, Phillis 7 11 Whitman, Walt: letter to Mary (Smith) Costelloe Berenson (photostat) 7 12 Wiggin, Kate Douglas 7 13 Woolf, Virginia 7 14 Zangwill, Israel 7 15 Ziegler, Marianne SERIES IV. POETRY 8 1-4 General; poetry reviews Margaret Mitchell General

[see also book on shelf]

9 1 University of Georgia Libraries: information on Mitchell collection 9 1 Letter from Mildred Thompson to Margaret Storrs Grierson 9 1 Smith College Libraries Annual Report: description of Mitchell Collection 9 2 Clippings about Gone With the Wind 9 3 Clippings about Margaret Mitchell 9 4 Gone With the Wind: articles and pamphlets 9 5 Smith College Scholarship Fund 9 6 Photographs: Smith College, publicity, and miscellaneous Correspondence (to and from Margaret Mitchell) 9 7 Clark, Annetta and Mary 1936, 1939 9 8 Dick, Jackson P. (including review of Gone With The Wind) 1937 9 9-10 Draper, Jesse: letters written during WWII to friend, describing life in wartime Atlanta 1941-45 9 11 Dunn, Harris A. 1936 9 12 Grierson, Margaret Storrs 1942 9 13 Harris, Julia Collier 1936, 1947 9 14 Harris, Julian 1936-37 9 15 Thompson, Mildred 1937-38 9 16 Plattner, Gladys (Lee) 1936, 1940 9 17 Hill, Edith (Editor of Smith Alumnae Quarterly) 1936 9 18 Neely, Rachel S. 1907 9 19 Hungarian movie magazinecirca 1937 9 20 Rachel Schlesinger Neely to her daughter Rachel Neely Parker about Margaret Mitchell 1939 9 20 Gone With the Wind (Motion Picture Edition) 1939 10 Lorde, Audre: conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin (orginally recorded for Essence magazine, December 1984 issue): audio recording, transcript, correspondence, and notes 1983

[Original audio tapes closed - use copies on CD]

Books on Shelf Anne Evans, Poems and Music 1880 Sarah Josepha Hale, Biography of Distinguished Women; Or, Woman's Record, From the Creation to A.D. 18691876 Margaret Mitchell Commemorative Stamps (US Post Office) 1986