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2.
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1940 December 12
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 348 | Folder 4598
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission"
- Subject (Name):
- Flanner, Janet, 1892-
- Subject (Topic):
- Women authors. and Women journalists
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Flanner, Janet
3.
- Published / Created:
- ca.1815-1820
- Call Number:
- Osborn fd5
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in mutliple hands, of a collection of several hundred riddles, acrostics, and rebuses, lighthearted poems primarily on female behavior, and several dozen hand-colored satirical engravings and newspaper clippings pasted in. Poem titles include Female loquacity; An excellent new song written for a masquerade at Edinburgh; Epitaph on a talkative woman; and Chit-chat at a country ball. The engravings primarily satirize social subjects, while the newspaper clippings include brief biographies of nobility; a survey of the mail in South America; a poem by George Tucker of Virginia; a chart portraying the expenditure on in "all the Christian world"; and several clippings on the votes of Parliamentary members in Ireland and England on whether to let Catholics sit in Parliament. A number of the riddles involve musical notation. Many of the entries have been decorated and colored.
- Description:
- Binding: half black morocco over machine-grain morocco-covered boards. Front cover missing., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In modern hand in pencil on flyleaf: Prob originating in Ireland (Plunkett family). Probably compiled by Lady Harriet Plunkett., and Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Topic):
- Acrostics., Catholics--Ireland--Politics and government., English poetry--19th century., English wit and humor., Engravings, British., Rebuses., Riddles., Verse satire, English., Women authors., and Women--Conduct of life.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca.1815-1820].
4.
- Published / Created:
- 1797
- Call Number:
- Osborn c479
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Details a young womans travels from Rochester, England, to Germany where she is to be the au pair for the household of Baron Danckelman; on the way, her ship is captured by French privateers; after arrival she gives detailed accounts of local customs in H
- Description:
- Anonymous holograph manuscript.
- Subject (Topic):
- Au pairs., Dinners and dining, Travelers' writings, English., Women authors., and Women travelers.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of an English governess in Germany], 1797 Jun 19 - Aug 28
5.
- Creator:
- Wharton, Anne, 1632?-1685
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b408
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single bookhand, of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller. Texts include ""The Lamentations of Jeremiah"" and other Biblical paraphrases, as well as paraphrases of poems by Ovid, Virgil and Boileau; ""To Melpome
- Description:
- Several pages following the poem texts are headed with poem titles but are otherwise blank.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --17th century, English poetry--17th century, Occasional verse, English, Religious poetry, English--17th century, and Women authors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems]
