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Poetry, 1913 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Williams 2/6

Scope and Contents

File containing typescript and manuscript poems, mostly undated, written by Gladys Skelton (later Bendit). Titles include:
H.M. [Herman Moroney?], April 1922; To My Friends; The Middle Years: To H.C.M.; Spring Song, 1948; The Blinded Soldier; On the Death of Tolstoi; Rohan’s Song from ‘The Light Lady’; Love-in-a Mist; Requiescat; The Lover to Mona Lisa; Spring in a London Office (to F.E.J.); Memory; Prologue to History; Winged Words; The Prostitute’s Song; Midnight; A Motto; Outside Canossa; Night Raid, 1941; Priapus; A Dream; Poet’s Lament, 1948; Love Poems to Cynthia, 1913; A Ballad for Herman August 1915 (in London Poems).
The file also contains a 5pp prose item entitled ‘The Old House’.

Dates

  • Creation: 1913 - 1948

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

See also GCPP Williams 2/4.

Bibliography

Some of the poems listed here were published in John Presland, 'Poems of London and Other Verses', 1918 and reprinted in 'Selected Poems of John Presland', Linden Press 1961.

Originator(s)

Skelton, Gladys

Finding aid date

2013-10-22 12:29:30+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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