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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm80050849
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, author, were given to the Library of Congress by Gladys Goud in 1973-1974.
The collection was processed in 1980. The finding aid was revised in 2011.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, born Emma Nevitte on December 26, 1819, in Washington, D.C., was a late nineteenth-century author whose domestic novels reached a wide audience in the United States and Europe. A school teacher before marriage, Southworth turned to writing to support her family after separating from husband, Frederick Southworth, an itinerant inventor, in 1844. Her first novel,
Southworth wrote more than sixty novels, many of them first presented serially in such magazines as the
The papers of Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899) span the years 1870-1918, with the bulk of the material consisting of letters from Mrs. Southworth to her daughter, Charlotte Southworth Lawrence, relating to personal and family affairs and to life in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), between 1890 and 1899. Southworth was a prominent author of the late nineteenth-century noted for popularizing novels with domestic themes using the self-made man and independent woman as American character types. Also included is biographical material, notes, newspaper clippings, speeches, poems, and literary fragments.
The collection is organized into family correspondence and miscellaneous files and therein alphabetically by name of person or type of material.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm80050849