Norah Smallwood, correspondence with some related material
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Norah Smallwood, correspondence with some related material
Classmark: BC MS 20c Smallwood
Creator(s): Smallwood, Norah Evelyn (1909-1984)(); (); Bogarde, Dirk (1921-1999)()
Date(s): 1932-1997
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 boxes; manuscript papers, typescript papers, photographs, postcards, greetings cards, press cuttings, photocopies
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8603
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Includes the correspondence of Norah Smallwood, chiefly letters to her, but with some of her replies and some related papers such as drafts of poems, invitation cards and funeral services. Also includes the correspondence of Dirk Bogarde to Helene Bordes. Norah Smallwood was the Dirk Bogarde's first publishing agent.
Biography or history
Norah Evelyn Smallwood, the publisher, was born on 30 December 1909 in Little Kingshill, Buckinghamshire and died on 11 October 1984 in Westminster Hospital, London. She was associated with Chatto & Windus from 1936 until her retirement in 1982. In 1973 she was awarded the OBE, and in 1981 she received an honorary D.Litt. from Leeds University. For fuller details of her life and achievements see the 'Dictionary of National Biography'.
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