Douglas Goldring fonds
| Record No. | SC048 |
| Main Entry | Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960 |
| Title | Douglas Goldring fonds |
| Dates | 1900-1964 |
| Physical Description | 2 m of textual records. |
| Bio/Admin History | Douglas Goldring was born in Greenwich, England, and died in Deal, Kent. He left Oxford University without a degree in 1906 and subsequently served on the editorial staff of "Country Life", "The English Review", and his own literary magazine, "Tramp". He enlisted in 1914, but was invalided. From 1916 on, he was a conscientious objector. He started to develop anti-American/pro-Soviet attitudes prior to World War II. He was a lecturer in English at Gothenburg, Sweden, 1925-1927, visited New York and Boston, lived on the Riviera, and returned to the United Kingdom in 1930. He founded the Georgian Group, a branch of The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings in 1937. He contributed to journals, wrote letters to editors, and wrote 25 books, including poetry, novels, literary criticism, travel and two autobiographies. |
| Scope and Content | The fonds consists of drafts of his works, including handwritten manuscripts, typescripts and carbon copies with sometimes extensive corrections of much of his published work and several unpublished titles; correspondence from personal friends and publishers; Goldring's letters to the editor; diaries and notebooks, 1903-1960; newspaper clipping files; and a Goldring biography file. Names of correspondents include: Richard Aldington, John Betjeman, T.S. Eliot, Emma Goldman, Aldous Huxley, W.S. Maugham, and Alec and Evelyn Waugh. The largest correspondence files are from Mary Butts, Ethel Mannin and Louis Wilkinson. Also included is a file of correspondence from Betty Duncan to Conal O'Riordan. She later became Goldring's first wife and the mother of his two children. |
| Title Source | Title based on the contents of the fonds. |
| Finding Aids | Inventory with series level control available. |
| Online Finding Aids | Inventory of the Douglas Goldring Fonds File List for Accession 1994-109 (PDF, 95 kB) File List for Accession 1995-012 (PDF, 82 kB) File List for Accession 1996-017 (PDF, 43 kB) File List for Accession 1997-169 (PDF, 25 kB) File List for Accession 1999-047 (PDF, 29 kB) |
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| Provenance | Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960 |
| Repository | University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections |
| Subject Headings | Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 Butts, Mary, 1890-1937 Duncan, Betty Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960 Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960--Correspondence Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960--Diaries Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 Literature Mannin, Ethel, 1900-1984 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 O'Riordan, Conal, 1874-1948 Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Wilkinson, Louis, 1881-1966 |
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