Patricia Tyrrell Collection
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Patricia Tyrrell Collection
Classmark: MS 1992
Creator(s): Tyrrell, Patricia (1929-)()
Date(s): 1958-2015
Language: English
Size and medium: manuscript notebooks, photographs, manuscript papers, typescript papers, newspaper cuttings, photocopies, pamphlets; 2 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/491007
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Includes manuscript notebooks containing drafts of poems and an annotated typescript draft of a novel. Also contains correspondence, articles by and about Tyrrell and photographs.
Biography or history
Patricia Tyrrell is an English American author of novels and poetry. She was born and educated in Norfolk. For some years Tyrrell worked in London as a civil servant. Having emigrated to the United States of America she worked in various roles including as a companion, cook-housekeeper and nurse. She returned to England in 1983 and is now based in Cornwall. Her novel 'The Reckoning' (2004) was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
Provenance
Donated by Patricia Tyrrell.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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