Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Majl Ewing collection of Hogarth Press manuscripts,
- Dates:
- 1920-1923
- Creators:
- Ewing, Majl
- Abstract:
- Majl Ewing (1903-1967) was a instructor in English (1930-31), assistant professor (1931-45), associate professor (1945-52) and professor (1953-67) in the UCLA Department of English. He served as chair of the department from 1948-55. He was also a member of the Modern Language Association, and helped found and served as president of Friends of the UCLA Library. The collection consists of manuscript English translations of Russian literature published by the Hogarth Press. Includes typescript and holograph translations by Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and S.S. Koteliansky.
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Majl Ewing collection of Hogarth Press manuscripts (Collection 1299). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of manuscript English translations of Russian literature published by the Hogarth Press. Includes typescript and holograph translations by Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and S.S. Koteliansky. Contains material related to Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi and Reminiscences of Anton Checkhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Possessed and The Life of a Great Sinner, Vasilii Spiridonov's The Autobiography of Countess Tolstoi, A.B. Goldenveizer's Talks With Tolstoy, Ivan Bunin's The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Studies, and Paul Biryukov's Tolstoi's Love Letters with a Study on the Autobiographical Elements in Tolstoi's Works.
- Biographical / historical:
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Ewing was born May 24, 1903 in Rochester, Kentucky; BA, University of the South, 1923; MA, Harvard, 1924; Ph.D, University of Virginia, 1929; instructor, University of Minnesota (1924-26); instructor (1926-29) and acting assistant professor (1929-30), University of Virginia; instructor in English (1930-31), assistant professor (1931-45), associate professor (1945-52), and professor (1953-67), Department of English, UCLA; chair of department, 1948-55; member, Modern Language Association; helped found and served as president of Friends of the UCLA Library; member, Board of Trustees of the Southwest Museum and the Los Angeles County Art Museum; publications include: A Guide to Better Writing (1940, with Franklin P. Rolfe and LLewellyn M. Buell) and English Prose of the Romantic Period (1938, with C.F. MacIntyre); died in 1967.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Majl Ewing.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2000
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access and Notetab Pro, April 1994 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Majl Ewing collection of Hogarth Press manuscripts (Collection 1299). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988