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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1892 - 1977

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Mears Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-210
Abstract Helen Mears was a writer and journalist, especially interested in Japan and Asia. Mears first traveled to China in 1925 and ten years later Mears spent nine months in Japan. Out of the trip to Japan she published two books and a series of essays that appeared in The New Yorker. Mears traveled throughout Asia, the Soviet Union, Europe, and parts of South America. After World War II Mears traveled again to Japan served in an official capacity as a member of the U.S. labor advisory committee....
Dates: 1862-1981; Majority of material found within 1935-1955

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M10
Overview Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, BMC Class of 1904, was a writer of several books and articles. Sergeant contributed to McClure’s Magazine, The New Republic and authored Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman, October 1918-May 1919 (1920), Short As Any Dream (1929), Willa Cather: A Memoir (1953), Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (1960). Materials include Sergeant’s correspondence, drafts, proofs and photographs. The correspondence and photographs are principally concerned with matters...
Dates: 1949 - 1964

Katharine Sergeant White papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M56
Overview Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1892. In 1914, White graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She married her first husband, Ernest Angell in 1915, and with him she had two children, Nancy and Roger. After a divorce in 1929, Katharine married her second husband, New Yorker staff writer E. B. White. White's career at The New Yorker began in 1925 and continued until her retirement in 1961. As the first...
Dates: 1928 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1977

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Authors, American -- 20th century -- History -- Sources 1
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Japan -- Description and travel -- Sources 1
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1