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Marguerite Yourcenar Collection, 1965-1993, n.d.
1.0
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
M191
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) was the author of historical novels,
essays, poetry, and short stories, and a translator of works into her
native French. Working principally in French, her most famous works are
Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian), published
in 1951, and L'Oeuvre au Noir (The Abyss), published in
1968. Madame Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Belgium,
and came to the United States in 1937 to study at Yale. She returned to
this country at the outbreak of the Second World War and became a
naturalized citizen in 1947. She taught briefly at Sarah Lawrence
College (1942) and lectured at other colleges and universities in the
U.S. and Europe, but chose to live and write at Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Her long and distinguished career as a writer led to memberships in the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, in the Acadêmie de Belgique,
and, the first woman so elected, in the Acadêmie Française.
She received a Litt.D. from Bowdoin in 1968.
Scope and Content:
The collection consists of drafts and proofs with holographic
corrections, including L'Oeuvre au Noir (1965-1975); correspondence
(1968-1987); biographical and critical clippings and articles (1966-1993);
and information on Mme. Yourcenar's home town of Bailleul. It is
supplemented by first and subsequent editions and translations of the
published works of Marguerite Yourcenar, which include many of her
bibliographic notations.
General note:"L'Oeuvre au Noir," 1968, ts. with ms. corrections, also
available on microfilm; George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College
Library, Brunswick, Me.; 1 microfilm reel.
Cite as:
Marguerite Yourcenar collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None.
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