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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. |
Collection Name: | The Head of the House of Coombe |
Inclusive Dates: | 1920-1922 |
Physical Description: | .1 linear feet |
Abstract: | Original holographic manuscript, unbound and undated. Written in both pen and pencil, it contains her edits. The last page of the manuscript is different from that of the published book, being condensed into one concluding paragraph. The novel is about social complexities in the life of a girl growing up in London, just before the outbreak of World War I. |
Collection Number: | MS 028 |
Language: | Materials are in English. |
Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
American novelist.
Original holographic manuscript, unbound and undated. Written in both pen and pencil, it contains her edits. The last page of the manuscript is different from that of the published book, being condensed into one concluding paragraph. The novel is about social complexities in the life of a girl growing up in London, just before the outbreak of World War I.
Errors in paging: nos. 78-81 duplicated.
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Published as a book in 1922 by both William Heinemann in London, and Frederick A. Stokes in New York.
First part of a story originally published serially in condensed form. The continuation of the story is the separate novel titled Robin: see MS 29 for that manuscript.
The Head of the House of Coombe (MS 028). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Acquired as gift, 1953.
Processed by Staff.