Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts approximately 1979 MS.2007.015 https://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2007-015

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Summary Information ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 4 Biographical note: ...... 5 Biographical note: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ...... 5 Scope and Contents ...... 6 Arrangement ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 7

Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts MS.2007.015

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Creator: Longford, Elizabeth, 1906-2002 Title: Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt drafts ID: MS.2007.015 Date [inclusive]: approximately 1979 Physical Description 3 Linear Feet (5 boxes) Language of the English Material: Abstract: The papers concern the work of twentieth-century British historian and biographer Elizabeth Longford. Included is a typescript and thirty-five draft notebooks of Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt drafts, MS.2007.015, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts MS.2007.015

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Publication Information Processed by in 2010. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Restrictions on access Collection is open for research.

Provenance Gift of Elizabeth Longford, 1996.

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Related Materials

Related Materials Correspondence from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Wilfrid Meynell is available in the Wilfrid Meynell collection, MS.1986.042, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts MS.2007.015

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Elizabeth Longford was born Elizabeth Harman in 1906 in , England, the eldest of five children of two doctors. Elizabeth attended Francis Holland School in London, Headington School in , and eventually Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. There she met close friend Hugh Gaitskell, later leader of the Labour Party. In Oxford she also met her future husband Frank Pakenham. They married in 1931. Both eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and also shared strong socialist beliefs. They had eight children, many of whom became writers including , Rachel Billington, and Thomas Pakenham. In 1961 she became Lady Longford when her husband inherited an earldom.

Longford didn't start publishing until her 50s with Jameson's Raid in 1960. Other works included Victoria RI, a biography about in 1964 and the acclaimed two-volume biography of the Duke of Wellington in 1969 and 1972. She also wrote about , , and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Elizabeth Longford published her memoirs, entitled The Pebbled Shore, in 1986 on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. She died on October 23, 2002 at age 96.

Sources:

Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of Longford. Encyclopaedia Britannica. https:// www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Harman-Pakenham-Countess-of-Longford Accessed on June 6, 2020.

Elizabeth Longford (Elizabeth, Countess of Longford). Royal Society of Literature. https:// rsliterature.org/fellow/elizabeth-longford-elizabeth-countess-of-longford-cbe/ Accessed on June 9, 2020.

Grove, Valerie. "Lady Elizabeth Longford". , October 24, 2002. https:// www.theguardian.com/news/2002/oct/24/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Accessed on June 9, 2020.

"Lady Longford dies aged 96" BBC News, 23 October 2002. [Accessed on-line at http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/611906.stm on 23 August 2007.]

Biographical note: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), British poet and writer, served in the Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. In 1869, he married Lady Anne Noel, the granddaughter of Lord Byron. Blunt traveled extensively in the Middle East and in . He was a strong opponent of British imperialism and his prose works included The Future of Islam (1882), Ideas about India (1885), and The Secret History of the English Occupation of (1907). He was also involved in Irish politics and composed his In Vinculis sonnets while imprisoned in Ireland.

Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts MS.2007.015

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Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 174: British Travel Writers, 1876-1909. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Barbara Brothers, and Julia Gergits, Youngstown State University. The Gale Group, 1997. pp. 41-53. [Accessed on-line at http://galenet.galegroup.com on 23 August 2007.]

Scope and Contents

Contains a complete typescript with handwritten additions and corrections for Longford's biography of the writer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Additionally there are thirty five handwritten draft notebooks that represent a complete draft of the book.

Arrangement

Arranged with the typescript preceding the notebooks. The notebooks are in the order of the published edition of the work.

Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts MS.2007.015

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Typescript, approximately 1979 box 1 box 2

Notebooks, approximately 1979 box 3 folder 1-13 box 4 folder 1-12 box 5 folder 1-10

Elizabeth Longford's Pilgrimage of Passion, The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Drafts MS.2007.015

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