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Literature

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Gossip Society manuscript volume

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0218
Overview The volume contains the productions of the Sisterhood of the Gossip Society of Gloucester, England. The author is unknown, but goes by the nom de plume “Penelope Placid.” The entire work is purportedly a product of these women’s meetings; more likely, it is the work of one woman satirizing the situation of elderly spinsters whom society considered to be gossips in nineteenth century England.
Dates: 1803 - 1804

Julian Huxley and Anita Loos correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0082
Abstract Correspondence between biologist Julian Huxley to Anita Loos, American screenwriter, playwright, and author. Many of these are great in length and most with remarkable content, evidencing the intimacy of Huxley and Loos.
Dates: 1960 - 1966