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Princeton University Collection of George Egerton Correspondence
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright, better known by her pen name George Egerton, was born in 1859 in Australia, though she spent most of her childhood in Ireland. In 1887, Bright eloped to Norway with Henry Higginson; she went to London in 1890 and began her literary career by translating Knut Hamsun's book, Hunger, from Norwegian into English. In 1893 and 1894, she published two books under the name George Egerton, exploring themes of gender, sexuality, equality, and power.
In 1901, Bright divorced George Clairmonte and married Reginald Golding Bright, a drama critic, at the same time as she shifted her literary career to translating and writing plays with feminist themes. Her last published play was "Camilla States Her Case" in 1925.
Consists primarily of correspondence between George Egerton and various friends, family members, and literary and theatrical colleagues, in particular, John Malcolm Bullock, John Lane, Richard LeGallienne, Seamus O'Sullivan, and Louis Napolean Parker. The collection also contains a small number of manuscripts which include prose, poetry, and biographical notes.
The collection correspondence is organized by incoming correspondence, which is alphabetized by correspondent surname, and outgoing correspondence, which is organized chronologically.
The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
The collection consists of a purchase made by the Princeton University Library in 1958, and of a gift from Eaton Cromwell, Class of '16, in memory of J. Harlin O'Connell, Class of '14. The accession numbers associated with these acquisitions are AM 16289 and AM 17781.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
Processing decisions for this collection prior to 2023 are unknown. In 2023, metadata enhancement was completed by Emma Paradies and Amy C. Vo to prepare materials for digitization. The finding aid was revised by Amy C. Vo in July 2023.
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- Feminism -- England. -- 20th century
- Authors, Irish. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Authors, Irish. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Dramatists, Irish. -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Feminism and literature -- England -- 19th century
- Feminism -- England -- 19th century
- Feminism and literature -- England -- 20th century
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
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Collection is open for research use.
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Includes one letter to Bright from Ellis Jeffries.
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Five of the letters are to Captain John Dunne.
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Letter from Rosa Butt to Captain John Dunne.
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Two of the letters are to Golding Bright.
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Signed "For John Lane".
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One letter to Terence de Vere White.
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Includes two letters to Terence de Vere White; one xerox.
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Contains correspondence from: George Egerton Clairmonte, Captain John Dunne, John Lane, and Elkin Mathews.
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Contains correspondence from Henry & Co, Grant Richards, John Lane, George Clairmonte, George Egerton, Captain John Dunne, Leonard Smithers, and Reginald Golding Bright.
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Contains correspondence from Reginald Golding Bright.
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Contains correspondence from Reginald Golding Bright and Captain John Dunne.
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Contains correspondence from Reginald Golding Bright, Arnold Daly, and Captain John Dunne.
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Contains correspondence from Reginald Golding Bright, Captain John Dunne, and Ethel White.
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Contains correspondence from Reginald Golding Bright, John Lane, Ethel White, and Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Ethel White and Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Nancy Dunne and Terence de Vere White.
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Contains correspondence from Terence de Vere White.
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