Flora Virginia Milner Livingston | |
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| Born | Flora Virginia Milner November 25, 1862 |
| Died | November 23, 1949 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | librarian |
Flora V. Livingston (1862-1949) was an American librarian and bibliographer.
Flora Virginia Milner Livingston | |
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| Livingston in 1923 | |
| Born | Flora Virginia Milner November 25, 1862 |
| Died | November 23, 1949 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | librarian |
Flora V. Livingston (1862-1949) was an American librarian and bibliographer.
Flora Virginia Milner was born in Montana in 1862. She married the horticulturalist, bibliographer, and librarian Luther S. Livingston in 1898. [1]
Livingston's husband had been appointed first librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collection at Harvard University but he died in 1914 before having been able to take up the position. The following year, George Parker Winship was appointed librarian and Livingston became his assistant. In 1926 she became its curator, a position she held until 1947. [2]
Livingston contributed to the uncovering of Thomas J. Wise's forgeries by John Carter and Graham Pollard. [3]
Her bibliographic studies included Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Frederick Locker-Lampson. [4] After compiling a bibliography of Rudyard Kipling, Livingston bequeathed her Kipling collection to her great-nephew Paul Montgomery, whose wife Helen Jenkins in turn bequeathed it to the University of Missouri in 2013. [5]
A fuller bibliography has been compiled by August A. Imholtz. [6]
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose three juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 after the stories had appeared in magazines during the previous two years. It is set at a school dubbed "the College" or "the Coll.", which is based on the actual United Services College that Kipling attended as a boy.
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books in its "vast and cavernous" stacks, is the centerpiece of the Harvard College Libraries and, more broadly, of the entire Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener after his death in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Bateman's is a 17th-century house located in Burwash, East Sussex, England. It was the home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 until his death in 1936. The house was built in 1634. Kipling's widow Caroline bequeathed the house to the National Trust on her death in 1939. The house is a Grade I listed building.
John Lockwood Kipling was an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling.
Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. He was an Oxford academic who formed part of the Inklings literary discussion group along with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. He had a positive influence on his friend, C.S. Lewis, by encouraging him to publish The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
George Parker Winship was an American librarian, author, teacher, and bibliographer born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1893.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library system of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The collections of Houghton Library include the Harvard Theatre Collection and the Woodberry Poetry Room.
Falconer Madan was Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.
Wilberforce Eames was an American bibliographer and librarian, known as the 'Dean of American bibliographers'.
Randolph Greenfield Adams was an American librarian and historian, director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for 28 years.
Eleanor Elkins Widener was an American heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress best remembered for her donation to Harvard University of the Widener Library—a memorial to her elder son Harry Elkins Widener, who perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
David Anton Randall was an American book dealer, librarian and bibliographic scholar. He was head of Scribner's rare book department from 1935 to 1956, librarian of the Lilly Library and Professor of Bibliography at Indiana University. Randall was responsible for the sale of two copies of the Gutenberg Bible. As a practitioner of bibliology with a bibliophiliac addiction, a raconteur of history of books, and an avid collector, he developed a keen appreciation for books as physical objects—including the tasks of collecting, cataloging, finding and preserving them.
Luther Samuel Livingston was an American bibliophile and scholar. He was the first curator of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection at Harvard University, but died just a few weeks after being appointed. George Parker Winship took up the position in 1915 with Livingston's widow Flora as his assistant.
William Coolidge Lane was an American librarian and historian. He served for over 45 years in the Harvard Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of The Idler and in 1896 in his poetry collection The Seven Seas. The poem is the source of the quotation: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right."
Jacob Nathaniel Blanck was an American bibliographer, editor, and children's writer. Born in Boston, he attended local schools and briefly ran a bookshop before being hired to assist on a bibliography of American first editions. He wrote for periodicals on the book trade and worked as a bibliographer in libraries including the Library of Congress in the 1940s and 1950s. Blanck also published two children's books. In the early 1940s, he founded a bibliography project that became Bibliography of American Literature, a selective bibliography of American literature. It was completed by 1992, after Blanck's death.
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