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Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0582
Overview

TLS to Dr. L. D. Arnett, librarian, West Virginia University, concerning the placing of copies of Miss Montague's books in the library.

Dates: 1934

Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 1348
Scope and Contents

Six letters by Margaret Prescott Montague to a Mr. Paddock concerning her own poems and writings, and the poetry of Angela Morgan.

Dates: 1919-1920

Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 2218
Scope and Contents Margaret Prescott Montague (1878-1955) of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and Richmond, Virginia, was an American short story writer, novelist, and O. Henry Award winner in the early twentieth century; she penned some of her work under the pseudonym Jane Steger. Approximately thirty letters written by Montague to her friend Maggie McGee document Montague's personal life and literary career. Three letters at the beginning of the collection indicate how the friendship began, when McGee...
Dates: 1936-1945, undated

Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1110
Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, notes and notebooks, diaries, press clippings, photographs, and printed material of a West Virginia essayist, short-story writer, poet and novelist, who won the first O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1919 for her short story, "England to America." The papers include correspondence from editors, publishers, agents and critics; readers' correspondence; family letters; manuscripts of short stories and other works; outlines, plots, and drafts; and diaries and notebooks...
Dates: 1893-1958

Waitman T. Barbe (1864-1925) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0831
Overview Papers of the managing editor of the Parkersburg DAILY STATE JOURNAL, 1889-1895, editor of the WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, and member of the English faculty of West Virginia University, 1895-1925. The collection includes manuscripts of Barbe's published poetry and unpublished short stories, correspondence, notes, speeches, class lectures, illustrations for short stories drawn by John Rettig, a scrapbook of clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to Barbe's book, GOING TO COLLEGE,...
Dates: 1884-1930

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Poets and poetry. 3
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
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