mnsss232 Pauline Avery Crawford Papers, 1902-1997 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Northampton, MA
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 Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-02-06 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Pauline Avery Crawford Papers, 1902-1997 Finding Aid MS 379 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Crawford, Pauline Avery, 1890-1952 Pauline Avery Crawford Papers1902-1997 MS 379 2 boxes (1 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College Northampton, MA
Artist; Poet; Columnist. Published and unpublished writings by Crawford, an American living in Paris during World War II. Biographical Note

Pauline Avery Crawford was born in Cortland, NY on 8 Aug 1890, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Educated at Goucher College, she taught for a year before her 1913 marriage to John Raymond Crawford, an archaeology professor at Columbia and Lafayette Colleges; together, they had two sons, William (b. 1915) and Jack (b. 1921). She and her husband separated in the mid-1920s (he later committed suicide in 1929) and she and her two sons went to Europe. As an American living in Paris from 1926 until her death in 1952, Crawford wrote for English-speaking publications, reporting on the Paris scene for, first Vogue magazine, then the International Herald Tribune where she documented the impact of World War II in verse and prose, including her own column, "Our Times in Rhyme" (1946-51). After several years of failing health, including the loss of a leg after a botched operation in 1931, Crawford died in Paris 14 Jan 1952.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

Numerous unpublished manuscripts, as well as some published material by and about Pauline Avery Crawford whose writing career focused especially on the impact of World War II as seen through the eyes of an American living in Paris throughout the war.

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 Search Terms Crawford, Pauline Avery, 1890-1952 Paris (France)--Description and travel--Sources World War, 1939-1945--France--Personal narratives, American Women authors, American--20th century--Biography--Sources