Women authors, American--20th century

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of...

Scope and Contents Essays, poems, notes, correspondence, and other personal papers and manuscripts of Julia Johnson Davis of Norfolk, Virginia. Many of her essays appear to be recollections of Davis's childhood, early life, and later international trips to Europe. Some correspondents include fellow writers Mary Sinton Leitch, John Richard Moreland, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Idella Purnell. Prominent categories for Davis's poetry include ballads, sonnets, lyrics, and "Negro dialect." The collection also...

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Two 1950s clipping scrapbooks of articles written by Louisa Venable Kyle of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The collection also includes a Kyle-Venable Family book of origins featuring genealogical research and photographs of ancestral homes and plantation houses, compiled by Louisa Venable Kyle in Summer 1968. There are also writings of and about Louisa Venable Kyle dating from 1950-1990 in the collection.

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Correspondence, books, poems, and writings by Margaret Haley Carpenter of Norfolk, Virginia along with other materials that appear to have been collected by her, including correspondence belonging to William Stanley Braithwaite and Sara Teasdale. The collection also includes membership lists for various literary organizations and miscellaneous ephemera (itemized) that does not seem related to this collection.

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Circa 1901-1962 essays and writings of Olive Vincent Marsh of Long Beach, California.