Gossip Society manuscript volume

Collection

Identifier: MS 0218

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

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.

Among the daily entries are moral lessons, small observations, anecdotes, and tales all told by members of the society.

Dates

Creation: 1803 - 1804

Creator

Placid, Penelope (Person)

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Gossip Society manuscript volume must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center.

Historical Sketch

Gloucester, England is a town of approximately 123,000 people in the southwestern part of England. The town lies in the county of Gloucestershire, close to the Welsh border.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet ( (1 folder))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Acquisition Information

This volume was purchased in 1953 through the Friends’ Fund (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Olcott). See Scherling Catalogue no. 49 (1953) item no. 80 MOF W 25396.