Anne Halley typescripts, approximately 1948-2004
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Summary
- Creator:
- Halley, Anne
- Abstract:
- Anne Halley was a fiction writer and poet. Collection includes typescripts for four works (approximately 700 pages) and typesetting instructions for the opening pages of Rumors of the Turning Wheel, which was published by Lisa Unger Baskin's Aee Press in 2003.
- Extent:
- 0.8 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.11751
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection includes typescripts for four works (approximately 700 pages) and typesetting instructions for the opening pages of Rumors of the Turning Wheel, which was published by Lisa Unger Baskin's Aee Press in 2003. The four works, True Wedding: Ten Household Tales, Beatrice and the Blind Child, Change of Life, and an untitled volume of poetry, are unpublished and undated. Some of the typescripts are annotated; also present are a few pieces of undated correspondence from Halley to Baskin.
- Biographical / historical:
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Anne Halley was a fiction writer and poet. Halley was born Ute Marianne Elisabeth Halle in Bremerhaven, Germany, on 9 November 1928. Her family emigrated to the United States during the 1930s to avoid the Holocaust. Halley graduated from Wellesley in 1949 and earned her Masters in English from the University of Minnesota Minneapolis in 1951. She married Jules Chametzky in 1953 and the couple raised three children. Anne Halley died in 2004 at the age of 75.
Source: Background on Anne Halley, http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums628 , accessed 25 June 2019.
- Acquisition information:
- The Anne Halley Typescripts were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2015.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Alice Poffinberger, June 2019
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Subjects
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- Subjects:
- American fiction -- 20th century
American fiction -- 21st century
Authors, American -- 20th century
Authors, American -- 21st century
Poets, American -- 20th century
Poets, American -- 21st century
Women authors, American -- 20th century
Women authors, American -- 21st century - Names:
- Halley, Anne
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