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Books pertaining to Aelfrida Tillyard, 1897 - 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Tillyard 1/18

Scope and Contents

All referred to in Sheila Mann, 'Aelfrida Tillyard: Hints of a Perfect Splendour, A Novel Biography'.
Six volumes, as follows:
1) E F Benson, ‘The Babe B.A.: Being the Uneventful History of a Young Gentleman at Cambridge University’, G P Putnam’s Sons, London & New York 1897 [has parallels with A Tillyard, ‘The Way We Grow Up’];
2) R H Benson, ‘The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary’, Pitman, London 1906 [AT may have modelled part of her life on this. Ex libris Girton College, bought in a book sale by Sheila Mann];
3) R H Benson, Lord of the World, 1907, this edition pub. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1958 [has parallels with A Tillyard, ‘Concrete’];
4) Henri Delacroix, ‘Les Grands Mystiques Chrétiens’, Librairie Félix Alcan, Paris, 1938;
5) T R Henn, ‘Selected Poems, 1958’;
6) John Symonds, ‘Elfrida and the Pig’, illustrated Edward Ardizzone, pub. Franklin Watts, New York, 1959; also Daily Telegraph obituary for John Symonds, novelist, biographer and literary executor of Aleister Crowley, 11 November 2006.






Dates

  • Creation: 1897 - 2006

Creator

Extent

1 archive box(es) (1 box) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Sheila Mann, September 2014

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2014-09-10 12:06:13+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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