An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952
Title:
Elizabeth Robins Collection
Dates:
1897-1938, undated
Extent:
2 boxes (.84 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes mainly letters written and received by the American actress, novelist, playwright,
and suffragist Elizabeth Robins, who wrote under the pseudonym C. E. Raimond. The
correspondence relates to Robins’ acting, theatrical writing, and literary output,
as well as her activities on behalf of women’s suffrage in England and the United
States. Among her correspondents are Henry James, Laurence Housman, Annie Kenney,
Dame Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurt, Baroness Emmeline Pethick Lawrence,
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, H. G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-3568
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations
commonly used in descriptions.
