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Scope and content: Two items relating to observances and commemorative activities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. held to honor the groups of writers known as the Fugitives and Agrarians.
Items include: Program for "Fifty Years After" symposium hosted at Vanderbilt University, marking the 1980 anniversary of the publication known as the Agrarian manifesto, "I'll Take My Stand". Exhibition guide entitled "Early and Late," highlighting...
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A profile of the controversial Italian poet and nationalist is set against a backdrop of Italy's transition from Romantic idealism to fascism and war and includes coverage of such topics as his contradictory literary subjects and status as a role model for Mussolini.
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Scope and content: Four undated typescript poems, two programs, and some notes relating to the career and poetry of Lucy H. King Smith (Mrs. Alfred Franklin Smith) of Nashville, Tenn. Poems, enumerated above, often are descriptive of specific places or locales. "The Jewel Box at Eastertide," for example, is about a building in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. Both "The House on the Cliff by the Sea" and "Sunset on the Sea" are about Crestcliffe by...
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"A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as a single mother and progressive force. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized...
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Scope and content: Scrapbook #1: Inscribed: "from Mattie to Ma, Dec. 25, 1882," contents in this scrapbook date from 1881 to 1902. Most of the materials in this scrapbook consist of calling cards. About half are formally printed cards, purchased from local printers; about half are handwritten, which are probably the signatures of the individuals named. Interspersed throughout are frequent wedding invitations, many to ceremonies held outside of Tennessee....