Glyn Hughes, literary papers with related material
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Glyn Hughes, literary papers with related material
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hughes
Creator(s): Hughes, Glyn()
Date(s): 1975-1999
Language: English
Size and medium: 23 boxes, 1 roll, and 3 charts; manuscript, typescript, and printed material (partly photocopy).
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8511
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Comprises:
(1) 39 autograph manuscript notebooks containing many drafts of Glyn Hughes' poems, research notes for novels, and numerous personal notes, partly dated between ca. 1979 and 1999, with some titles written on the outsides of some of them, notably 'Turner' (1 notebook), 'Roth' (ca. 2 notebooks), 'Poems' (ca. 4 notebooks), and 'Bront?' (9 notebooks) (2 boxes);
(2) Copies of 6 of his books, namely, 'Millstone Grit' (1975), 'Best of Neighbours' (1979), 'The Hawthorn Goddess' (1984), 'The Rape of the Rose' (1987), 'Roth' (1992), and 'Bront?' (1996) (also held in Box 2);
'poems' (2000); cassette recording of 'Pursuit', broadcast radio 4 Sept 13th 1999.
(3) 21 boxes containing many autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of his writings and related research notes, including, (a) Various earlier and shorter writings, ca. early-1980s (1 box), (b) 'The Rape of the Rose', ca. mid-1980s (1 box), (c) 'The Antique Collector', ca. late-1980s (3 boxes), (d) 'Roth' (earlier entitled 'Obsession' and 'The Obsessive'), late-1980s - early-1990s (5 boxes), (e) 'Bront?', ca. mid-1990s (9 boxes), and (f) 'The Pursuit', ca. late-1990s (2 boxes);
(4) 1 large rolled autograph manuscript chart of contemporary events, arranged chronologically, constructed by Hughes as part of his research for his novel 'Bront?', together with 3 other similar charts for other novels, namely, 'Where I Used To Play On The Green', 'The Hawthorn Goddess', and 'The Rape of the Rose'; these latter 3 charts are held in the last numbered box in the 'Bront?' drafts section, namely, (3)(e) Box 9, whilst the large rolled chart is held on shelves adjacent to the collection.
Includes 1 large roll and 3 other folded manuscript charts.
Biography or history
Glyn Hughes, the West Yorkshire poet, novelist, and playwright, was born in Middlewich, Cheshire, in 1935 and educated at Altrincham Grammar School and the Regional College of Art, Manchester. He taught art and liberal studies at schools and colleges in Lancashire and Yorkshire until 1972, since when he has been a freelance writer. He has won several prizes for his novels, and has also written stage plays and verse plays for radio.
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