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'AUT etc: essayists and background': File 1, 1934 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Grant 3/2b/1

Scope and Contents

‘Unamuno and the Generation of ’98’ [Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics and later Rector of the University of Salamanca. ‘The Generation of 1898’ was a name given to a group of young men of the Spanish intelligentsia more or less at the beginning of their careers at the end of the 19thC]. These papers appear to have been used as [part of?] a series of lectures on the period 1868-1938. They include a typescript copy of ‘The Generation of ’98 and its significance’: paper read by Helen F Grant to the National Council of Women (International Group, Birmingham Branch) on December 14th 1934 (22 page typescript with ms annotations and amendments). Other papers / essays in the file include ‘Towards the Modern Age: The Generation of 1898’; ‘Education in Spain - its problems and significance’; ‘The Generation of ’98 and its influence on modern Spain’, and ‘Unamuno’. The file also contains notes on Angel Ganivet and [Joaquin] Costa. A few of the notes are in Spanish.

Dates

  • Creation: 1934 - 1960

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Spanish; Castilian

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Alison Sinclair July 2018.

Date information

DateText: [Notes not dated but probably late 1950s / early 1960s?].

Originator(s)

Grant, Helen

Finding aid date

2018-07-17 09:49:53+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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