Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Charles Marriott papers
MSS 16686
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0.75 Cubic Feet
one legal size document box and one half-width legal size document box
manuscripts, typescripts, and printed materials
1894-1960; undated
English
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift from Jerome McGann to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 2015 December 1.
Preferred Citation
MSS 16686, Charles Marriott papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Content Description
Bound and loose typescripts, manuscripts, offprints and miscellaneous materials written or translated by Charles Marriott from 1894 to 1960. Included are untitled novels, two of his plays "Exit: A Tragedy in One Act" and "The Intruding Angel: A Play in Three Acts", 15 offprints of his articles, and a bound volume manuscript of his short stories. Also present are manuscript notebooks with records of his publications as well as manuscript notes and ideas for stories he projected.
Biographical / Historical
Charles Marriott (1869-1957), born in Bristol, England, was a writer and influential art critic of the early twentieth-century. He is perhaps best remembered now as the art critic for The Times (London) between 1924 and 1940. Before taking up that post, he was closely involved with some of the most important artists associated with St. Ives and Newlyn, as well as many of the period's most active writers. Besides his art criticism, he wrote many novels, stories, and some plays. He stopped publishing fiction in 1922 so the presence of an unpublished novel is interesting, whether it dates from the period of his novel writing or whether he wrote it later.
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Untitled Novel [first version]Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217082English11Untitled Novel page 81-146Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217083English12Untitled Novel [second version] page 1-71, 1-7Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217084English13"Exit: A Tragedy in One Act" bound typescriptArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217085English14"The Intruding Angel: A Play in Three Acts"Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217086English15Short StoriesArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217087English16Broadcast typescripts British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2170881944-1945English17Miscellaneous typescript "Criticism. Primitives and Art" and miscellaneous newspaper clippingArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217089English18Miscellaneous typescriptsArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217090English19Scope and ContentsThe Bells of Saint Martin; The Past; Cornish Memories; Solomon Bluebeard; A Case-History; In Praise of Follies; Art in the Times.
Account book listing publications and pricesArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2170911922-1941English110OffprintsArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2170921894-1960; undatedEnglish21Printed booksArchival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/217093English22-3