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Manuscript book of poems given by Elizabeth Jenkins to Sir Eardley Holland

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A volume of poems, entitled 'A Garland of Yew', collated and written out by Elizabeth Jenkins, c.1944, for the eminent obstetrician Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland (1879-1967), with whom she had an affair (her 1954 novel, The Tortoise and the Hare, was said to be influenced by the termination of their relationship). The poems mainly relate to child-birth and death in child-birth, including an extract from Byron's Childe Harold on the death of Princess Charlotte (a topic Holland extensively researched).

Dates

  • Creation: c.1944

Extent

1 volume

Language of Materials

  • English

Preferred Citation

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Shelfmark:

MS. 21796

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 21796

Abstract

Manuscript book of poems given by Elizabeth Jenkins to Sir Eardley Holland, c.1944.

Biographical / Historical

For full biographical detail, see entries for Jenkins, (Margaret) Elizabeth Heald (1905–2010), novelist and biographer, and Holland, Sir Eardley Lancelot (1879–1967), obstetrician, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to the Bodleian Library by Melanie Musman, grand-daughter of Sir Eardley Holland, 2022.

Related Materials

Bodleian Libraries

  1. MSS. 15051/1-8 - literary papers of Elizabeth Jenkins, 1962-1982.
  2. MS. 12052 - letters to A.L. Rowse from Elizabeth Jenkins, 1960-1993.
Title
Catalogue of manuscript book of poems given by Elizabeth Jenkins to Sir Eardley Holland, c.1944
Status
Published
Author
Rachael Marsay
Date
2022
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Sponsor
Catalogued with the generous support of the Roy Davids bequest

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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