Mary Johnston Papers 1898-1936

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Author and suffragette. Correspondence, diaries (1907-19150, accounts, speeches, and other papers, concerning Miss Johnston's literary pursuits and her advocacy of women's suffrage. The correspondence with her publishers and agents concern book and article titles, contracts, royalties, public taste, criticism of her work, and motion picture and dramatic rights. Includes manuscripts and galley proofs of Audrey(1902), Lewis Rand(1908), The Far Country(unfinished and unpublished), and others. Other correspondence and speeches concern her activities with various organizations on behalf of women's rights. Correspondents include Viola Allen. Rebecca Harding Davis, Margaret Deland, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Fola LaFollette, Cary Gholson (Glasgow) McCormick, Marian McDowell, Margaret Meredith, Nannie Minor, Mrs. Walter Hines Page, Mrs. Roger Pryor, Eleanor Robson, Anna Katherine Gren Rohls, Anna Howard Shaw, May Sinclair, Alice Tyler, Ellen C. Whitney, and Elinor Wyllie. #3588, -a, -b

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ca. 4,000 items.

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