Princeton University Collection of George Egerton Correspondence, 1850-1958

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Creator:

Egerton, George, 1859-1945

Title:

Princeton University Collection of George Egerton Correspondence

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kp78gg38c

Dates:

1850-1958

Size:

2 boxes and 0.80 linear feet

Storage Note:

Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2

Language:

English

Abstract: Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright (pseudonym George Egerton) was a writer and translator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was influential in the late-nineteenth century "New Woman" movement as well as the early modernist movement in English-language literature. The collection primarily consists of correspondence between Bright and various friends, family members, and literary and theatrical colleagues. The collection also contains a small number of manuscripts which include prose, poetry, and biographical notes.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

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.

Arrangement

The collection correspondence is organized by incoming correspondence, which is alphabetized by correspondent surname, and outgoing correspondence, which is organized chronologically.

Collection Creator Biography:

Egerton

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.

Collection History

Acquisition:

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.

Processing Information

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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Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

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Credit this material:

Princeton University Collection of George Egerton Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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