Literature, Theater and Art

Manuscript collections include large collections of papers of British writers Ralph Hodgson, A.E. Housman, Laurence Housman, and Christina Rossetti; American poet and Bryn Mawr graduate Marianne Moore; long-time New Yorker fiction editor Katherine Sargent White; and Theatre Guild producer Theresa Helburn; artist Anne Truitt; and British illustrator and stage designer Claude Lovat Fraser.  The book collections are especially strong in poetry and novels by women writers, including Italian women writers from the 16^th & 17^th centuries, French women writers from the 18^th century, and British and American women writers from the 18^th to the 20^th centuries.  Other highlights include the Shakespeare First Folio, a large collection of Kelmscott Press books, and 20^th century Latin American literature.