Gwen Bristow The Handsome Road Scrapbook Collection
Scope and Contents
The Gwen Bristow 'The Handsome Road' Scrapbook Collection is comprised of newspaper clippings, compiled about publication and success of The Handsome Road.
Dates
- Creation: 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical Information:
Gwen Bristow, an author and journalist, was born in South Carolina in 1903. After attending Columbia University in New York, she moved to New Orleans, Louisiana and worked for the Times-Picayune. She wrote the best-selling novel The Handsome Road, first published in 1938, as the second work in her Plantation Trilogy. The first novel in the trilogy was Deep Summer, published in 1937, and the third was This Side of Glory, published in 1940.
Full Extent
2.00 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Gwen Bristow, an author and journalist, wrote the best-selling novel The Handsome Road, published in 1938, as the second work in her Plantation Trilogy. The collection consists of a scrapbook, primarily comprised of newspaper clippings, compiled about publication and success of the The Handsome Road.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
1980.
Genre / Form
- Title
- Guide to the Gwen Bristow The Handsome Road Scrapbook Collection
- Date
- 2012-06-06
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & Archives Repository
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge CA 91330-8326 USA
818-677-4594
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