Short stories, unfinished novels, translation, playscripts
MS. 12404/81
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Short stories, unfinished novels, translation, playscripts
Shelfmark
MS. 12404/81
Summary
Comprises:
Unfinished novel written while Joseph was working for a newspaper in Bedford, and on reverse handwritten poems, notes, letters including a letter to Elinor Marx, c. 1953-1956
Drafts and notes for a novel or story set in South Africa, c. 1960s
Notebook with a fiction draft, possibly related to the 'Bedford Novel', n.d.
Typescripts and manuscript drafts and fragments of mainly untitled stories (including 'Marianne's Day') and playscripts The Inky Cloak, Visibility, Poor and East of the Sun or West of the Moon, The Kitchen Rebellion, A story about an old man, a stranger and a silver vase, Adventures of a Bridge Roll Sardine, and Grimley's Last Work, n.d.
Undated typescripts of The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden by Frederico Garcia Lorca translated by Helen Henderson and Jenny Joseph, with associated correspondence, 1996-1997
Typescript draft untitled novel, c. 1960s
Date
c. 1953-1997, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (6 folders)
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Collection contents
Fiction and playwriting
Notebooks and drafts
Short stories, unfinished novels, translation, playscripts
