Autographs, Winifred M. Chatterley, 1901-1908.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Chatterley, Winifred Mary, 1887-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Genre:

Commonplace books.

Autograph albums.

Poems.

Quotations (texts)

Drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, English.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Pickering & Chatto Antiquarian Booksellers (London, England), list 223 (2011), no. 9.

Physical Description:

1 volume

Place of Publication:

1901-1908.

Biography/History:

Winifred Mary Chatterley is one of three children born in 1887 to George and Annie Chatterley in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. Winifred's siblings include a sister, Constance, born in 1884, and a brother, Leslie George, born in 1901.

Summary:

Autograph album belonging to Winifred Mary Chatterley, with a handwritten title page that reads: "Autographs, Winifred M. Chatterley, Eastwood, Notts/. 1901." The album contains the autographs of various friends and family members, spanning from 1901 to 1908, when Winifred was ages fourteen to nineteen. Thirty-six leaves are filled with poems, quotations, and drawings. Preceding most signatures are poems or quotations from well-known authors, such as George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Lord Alfred Tennyson. Some of the autographs are preceded by original drawings. Six leaves of pen-and-ink drawings depict types of bank customers with written descriptions. The volume is bound in black leather with "Writing Album" embossed on the front cover.

OCLC:

757717021