Defense Date
2004
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Bryant Mangum
Second Advisor
Richard Priebe
Third Advisor
David Latané
Fourth Advisor
Marcel Cornis-Pope
Fifth Advisor
Stephen Gottfredson
Sixth Advisor
F. Douglas Boudinot
Abstract
This project consists of the transcription and annotation of a group of letters from the writer Peter Taylor to his friend John Anderson Thompson, a professor of English and literary critic. There are sixty letters, going from 1939 to 1952. They contain important biographical information about Taylor's life, including his relationships with his wife, the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, his parents, Hillsman and Katherine Taylor, and contemporaries such as Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, and Robert Penn Warren. The letters also provide a record of the progress of Taylor's novella A Woman of Means. The development of the Creative Writing program at the former Woman's College of North Carolina, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, under the direction of Randall Jarrell, is also discussed in the correspondence.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
7-12-2024