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Norah Smallwood, correspondence with some related material

Archive Collection: BC MS 20c Smallwood

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Norah Smallwood, correspondence with some related material

Level: Collection

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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