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Women's and Gender Studies

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Rose Marie Audette papers

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-11
Identifier: GTM-810727
Scope and Contents

Personal papers of Rose Marie Audette, a graduate of Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 1981..

Folder 1. Senior thesis, Georgetown University, 1981. Title: "Everything in Moderation: Social Activism and University Reform, Georgetown University, 1960-1970."

Folders 2-11. Files pertaining to Community Action Coalition, a Georgetown University student organization.

Dates: 1979-1982

Ernesta Drinker Barlow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-081118
Scope and Contents A collection of the personal papers of Aimee Ernesta Drinker Barlow (1892-1981). Includes autograph memoir, travel diaries (from 1916 and early 1960s), correspondence received from husbands William C. Bullitt (1891-1967), former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union; and composer Samuel L.M. Barlow (1892-1982); as well as from admirers including the artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). Of note is an almost complete run of mimeographed scripts of NBC Radio broadcasts by Barlow as "Commando Mary"...
Dates: 1910 - 1962

Beauchamp-Hughes Family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-770930
Scope and Contents A collection of autograph letters to/from members of the Beauchamp and Hughes families including Louise Augusta Beauchamp, her husband David M. Hughes, their daughter Lolita Beauchamp Hughes. Notable correspondents include Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Thomas Henry Husley, Robert Mullan, John Pagrave Simpson, Anthony Trollope, and Sir Mordant Wells, among others.Other materials include: 1.Photographs; 2. Printed sheet music composed by Lolita Beauchamp Hughes; 3. Newspaper...
Dates: 1855-1903

Katherine Biddle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS250
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates: 1855 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1969

Anna M. Brady Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS330
Scope and Contents The Anna M. Brady Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs that document the career of Anna M. Brady, a Catholic journalist who for many years was the dean of the Vatican press corps, covering synods, papal conclaves, and the Second Vatican Council. There is much about those events and about the Catholic Intercontinental Press. Of note is an extensive run of correspondence of Felix Morlion, O.P. There are also some fine original photographs of Pope Paul VI, Pope John...
Dates: 1938 - 1982

Clinch Calkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-000622
Scope and Contents

Click on External Documents below to link to collection finding aid.

Dates: 1912 - 1989

Susan Decatur letter

 Item
Identifier: GTM-140117
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer. Georgetown [District of Columbia]: 21 February 1828, small 4to, 2 pp.

Dates: 1828

Helen M. Eisenman letters and recollections

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-150828
Content Description

Typed transcription of 26 letters, entitled: "Letters from the Foreign Service / Memories of Work, Travel and Lots of Fun in the Foreign Service 1959-1985". 100pp + cover and dedication pages. Dated April 15, 2015. Written by Eisenman to family during her tours of duty as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. Letters are written from India, Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, and Vienna. Includes one account of a road trip in Norway and Sweden, 1983.

Dates: 1959-1983

Miriam Gallagher, R.S.M. letters

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-620301
Content Description

Original and photocopied correspondence between Sister Miriam Gallagher, R.S.M.; H.L. Mencken; Odell Shepherd; and others.

Dates: 1925-1960

Gallery of Living Catholic Authors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS472
Scope and Contents The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors Collection was formed by the Gallery, founded in 1932 by Sister Mary Joseph, S.L. It was transferred in 1980 from its original home at Webster College in St. Louis to Georgetown. It consists of manuscripts, letters, and photographs by and about more than 600 British, American, European, and Asian Catholic authors of the twentieth century, including such writers as Hugh de Blacam, Roy Campbell, Wilfrid Rowland Childe, August Derleth, Julian Green, Mary...
Dates: 1890 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1961

Graham Greene - Anita Bjork letters

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-28
Identifier: GTM-061127
Content Description

A collection of 26 letters (1971-1990) from British novelist Graham Greene to Swedish actress Anita Bjork (1923-2012). Includes two letters from Vivien Greene to Bjork.

Dates: 1971-2000; Majority of material found within 1971-1990

Graham Greene - Catherine Walston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS168
Scope and Contents The Catherine Walston/Graham Greene Papers consist in bulk of correspondence written by Greene to Lady Walston over a span of three decades from 1946 through 1978. In addition, the collection includes a large portion of original autograph and typed manuscripts, as well as rare proof copies of his works that the author presented over the years as gifts to Lady Walston. There is also a substantial collection of photographs of Greene and Lady Walston, together with friends such as writers...
Dates: 1925 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1946-1978

Vivien Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS420
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Vivien Greene papers consist of six letters written to Vivien Greene, the wife of noted English Catholic author Graham Greene. A letter from Graham to Vivien sent from Berlin, Germany, refers to the Berlin Wall restrictions. Other correspondents include Tom Cordishley, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Columba Ryan. The letters date mostly from the 1940s.

Dates: 1941-1948

Anna J. Gurvin papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-161110
Content Description

Resource material relating to Gurvin's work as assistant cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Information Agency. Includes Federal reports and publications by private organizations regarding cultural and educational funding and support abroad.

Dates: 1970-2000

Edward Hermon papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-000003
Collection Level Scope and Contents note During the nineteenth century great fortunes were made by various entrepreneurs in the cotton industry of Lancashire. One of the most remarkable of these cotton masters was Edward Hermon (1821?-1881), the managing partner of Horrocks, Miller & Company, an early giant in the field. Hermon became the conservative M.P. for Preston (1868-1881) as well as an eminent art collector, sportsman, philantropist and builder. His papers, dating between 1864 and 1867, cover a variety of topics, but...
Dates: 1864-1897

John C. Hirsh collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130529
Scope and Contents

Various 19th century British letters, scrapbooks and photograph albums, collected by Prof. John Hirsh.

Dates: 1816-1980

Nancy Horton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130912
Scope and Contents

The Nancy Horton Papers consists of correspondence, financial records, notes, and audiovisual recordings.

The papers include materials related to her father George Horton, including letters written to Nancy Horton from George Horton, negatives of photographs featuring George Horton, and a small portion of Nancy's archival research on her father, which includes transcriptions of several of his diary pages and a letter from a friend describing his character and actions.

Dates: 1912 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1990

Elizabeth Jennings papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS173
Collection-level Scope and Content Note Note to the legacy print version of this finding aid.The Elizabeth Jennings papers 1 consists of correspondence sent and received by the poet. Correspondence is organized by individual name and arranged alphabetically. Also included is correspondence from cultural organizations, museums, and publishers, as well as fan letters. Notable correspondents include many contemporary poets and writers such as, John Betjeman, Charles Causley, Cecil Day-Lewis,...
Dates: 1957-1989; Majority of material found within 1969-1989

Elizabeth Jennings papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS136
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Jennings papers 2, consists of manuscripts and notebooks of autograph first drafts of poems, dating from 1972 to 1983,by English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001).

Dates: 1972-1988

Elizabeth Jennings papers 3, GTM151109

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-151109
Scope and Contents

Addenda to the Elizabeth Jennings papers 1 and 2, consisting of additional letters and poetry manuscripts purchased directly from Jennings in 1992 and 1993; and various manuscripts purchased from Thornton's Bookshop, Oxford, England.

Dates: 1955-2001