http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c83j3jg0 No online items Elizabeth Jane Howard papers Finding aid prepared by Gayle Richardson. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2016 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Elizabeth Jane Howard papers mssEJH 1-5257 1 Overview of the Collection Title: Elizabeth Jane Howard papers. Dates (inclusive): 1925-2014 Collection Number: mssEJH 1-5257 Creator: Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Extent: 6,907 cataloged items + ephemera in 170 boxes Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, diaries, passports and ephemera of English writer Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014). The manuscripts cover the entire span of Howard's writing career and include her major novels, as well as articles, essays, plays, short stories, book reviews, and interviews. In addition, there are manuscripts and correspondence of other authors and artists, most notably Kingsley Amis and Cecil Day Lewis. Within the correspondence, there are large groups of letters pertaining to Howard's involvement with the Cheltenham Literary Festival, the charity Bulgarian Orphans Fund Ltd., and personal letters discussing life in England during World War II. Language: English. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Elizabeth Jane Howard papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance Part I of the collection was acquired from Elizabeth Jane Howard in August, 1995 (acquisition number 1747). Part II was acquired from Ms. Howard in February, 2001 (acquisition number 2087). Part III was acquired from Ms. Howard in July, 2010 (acquisition number 2669). Part IV was acquired through Bertram Rota Booksellers from Jonathan Clowes Ltd., Ms. Howard's Literary Executor, June 11, 2014-June 2018 (acquisition numbers 3019, CSmH_2014_073 and CSmH_2018_153). Processing/Project Information This collection was cataloged by Gayle M. Richardson, August 12, 1999 – August 6, 2018. Cataloging Decisions 1. Elizabeth Jane Howard's handwriting appears on manuscripts and letters throughout the collection, so it was decided not to index each instance separately. 2. Items dealing with the Second World War have been subject indexed only when substantive. 3. Nicknames occur frequently in the correspondence; the letters are cataloged and indexed using the full, authorized name and the nickname is noted on the front of the folder. 4. There are references to Elizabeth Jane Howard throughout the collection; only substantive references and author/title references for her works have been subject indexed. 5. The Elizabeth Jane Howard Papers were cataloged over a span of 17 years and multiple acquisitions, resulting in a collection organized by accretion, with each new acquisition added on in sequence at the end of the collection, rather than interspersed with similar or related materials. Therefore, each separate acquisition must be searched in order to locate all of the relevant manuscripts or correspondence by a particular author. 6. Because the collection was cataloged over a span of 17 years, the names and dates of various people in the collection have changed, usually in order to conform to changing standards in national cataloging practices. For example: Elizabeth, Countess Russell, became Elizabeth von Arnim. In other instances, an individual remarried or died. It was not practical for us to retroactively update the previously cataloged names on the folders on in the Finding Aid, so researchers will find different forms of names used for the same individuals in discrete sections of the collection. Elizabeth Jane Howard papers mssEJH 1-5257 2 Note -- Material Previously Restricted The previously restricted material numbered 419 items (EJH 2105-2524), and consisted of the following material: Kingsley Amis (manuscripts, letters to Elizabeth Jane Howard) Cyril Connolly (letters to Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard) Antony Craxton (letter to Peter Scott) C. (Cecil) Day Lewis (manuscripts, letters to Elizabeth Jane Howard) City Register Office (London, England) (Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage) Gillian Dearman (letter to Kathleen Scott) Elizabeth Jane Howard (letters to Kingsley Amis, Kathleen Scott, Peter Scott) Katherine Howard (letter to Peter Scott) Elspeth Huxley (letter to Elizabeth Jane Howard) John O'Neil (letter to Peter Scott) Peter Scott (letters to Elizabeth Jane Howard) The material was originally restricted by the request of Elizabeth Jane Howard but, upon her request, portions of the restricted material were opened for research in January 2000 and April 2005; the remainder of the material was opened in August 2010, the expiration of the original date of restriction. Access The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please visit the Huntington's website: www.huntington.org. Biographical Note Elizabeth Jane Howard was born in London, England on March 26, 1923. She trained as an actress and, before the Second World War, played at Stratford-upon-Avon as well as repertory theater in Devon. At various times she worked as a model, a broadcaster for the BBC (1939-1946), as an editor for various publishers, and as a writer. She has been widely published as a novelist, journalist, reviewer, and has written plays for stage, film, and television. In 1962, she was the Artistic Director for the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and in 1973, the Artistic Co-Director of the Salisbury Festival of Arts; Howard was awarded a CBE in 2000. She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942, (one daughter; div. 1951); James Douglas Henry in 1958 (div. 1964); and Sir Kingsley Amis in 1965 (div. 1983). Elizabeth Jane Howard, died, aged 90, at home on January 2, 2014. A partial list of her publications includes: The Beautiful Visit (1950, winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, 1951), The Long View (1956), The Sea Change (1959), After Julius (1965), Something in Disguise (1969; television series, 1982), Odd Girl Out (1972), Mr. Wrong (1975), A Companion for Lovers (editor, 1978), Getting It Right (1982; film script, 1985), Howard and Maschler on Food: Cooking for Occasions (with Fay Maschler, 1987), The Light Years (1990), Green Shades (anthology, 1991), Marking Time (1991), Confusion (1993), Casting Off (1995), Falling (1999), Slipstream (2002), Love All (2008) and All Change (2013); as well as scripts for the television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. She has contributed articles to Encounter, Sunday Times, Daily Express, The New Yorker, and Town and Country. Bibliography Bennett, Nicola. Speaking Volumes: A History of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature (Phoenix Mill, United Kingdom, Sutton Publishing, 1999). Evory, Ann and Linda Metzger (eds.). Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Vol. 8 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1983), pp. 256 - 257. Harte, Barbara and Carolyn Riley (eds.). Contemporary Authors. Vols. 5-8. First Revision (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1963), p. 567. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream: A Memoir (London: Macmillan, 2002). Jones, Daniel and John D. Jorgenson (eds.). Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Vol. 62 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1998), pp. 219 - 223. Leader, Zachary (ed.). The Letters of Kingsley Amis (London: HarperCollins, 2000). Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006). Who's Who 1997. Vol. 149. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), p. 958. Scope and Content The collection consists of Elizabeth Jane Howard's manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and ephemera. The manuscripts cover the entire span of her writing career and include her major novels, as well as articles, essays, plays, short stories, book reviews, and interviews. In some cases there are multiple drafts of a work, enabling a researcher to Elizabeth Jane Howard papers mssEJH 1-5257 3 trace Howard's creative process. The correspondence includes personal letters and letters related to Howard's work. The collection holds over 800 photographs and seven boxes of printed ephemera. Notable people in the collection include, among others: Robert Aickman, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Jill Balcon, John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Cecil Day Lewis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Louis De Bernières, Robert Fitzroy Foster, Selina Hastings, Laurie Lee, Robert Newton Linscott, Hilary Mantel, John Julius Norwich, Peter Scott, Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Taylor (novelist), and Leonard Woolf. Scope and Content Note -- Part I The papers in Part I consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-21), are arranged alphabetically by author and title. The manuscripts cover a wide span of Elizabeth Jane Howard's literary career, with examples of some of her earliest writing and of articles written as recently as the early 1990s. In some cases there are both manuscript