[One-page ALS & colour postcard, hand-written and signed, from Mavis Gallant to Margaret Crosland, saying they'll miss each other in Paris and briefly discussing the works of Julian MacLaren-Ross]

[GALLANT, Mavis]; [CROSLAND, Margaret]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1974

Beschreibung

ALS on blue note paper (9th June 1974) & colour picture postcard (undated, likely later), featuring an illustration of a woman on a bicycle, with 'Cycles Omnium, Paris,' both written in a clear hand in black ink and signed, "Mavis Gallant"/ "Mavis G.": single fold to ALS, which is starting at its right-hand edge, some creasing; gentle edgewear and creasing at corners to postcard, Crosland's identification in pencil, "Mavis Gallant". Good+/ VG Two brisk, but not unfriendly, hand-written responses from the Canadian short story writer, Mavis Gallant, to the British literary biographer and translator, Margaret Crosland; the TLS lets Crosland know that Gallant is "leaving on Wednesday for Corsica & the South & probably won't be back until late August." She shares her number and invites Crosland to call in the autumn. The undated postcard (likely a later date) opens: "How kind of you to have remembered Maclaren-Ross" and goes on to say that she has "found virtually everything except a collection of stories called THE STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS*" (his first collection, published by Jonathan Cape in 1944) and adds down the side: "*I don't think it exists anywhere now". Gallant closes with mention of "the throat infection that has [taken over?] Paris". Gallant (1922-2014) had moved to Europe in the early 1950s, and eventually settled in Paris, to allow her write full-time. She published 116 stories in The New Yorker across her career. From Margaret Crosland's archive. Crosland (1920-2017) was an important and prolific British literary biographer and translator of French and Italian authors, "who pioneered Cocteau" in Britain (Owen, 2009). She was the French literature consultant for the British publisher Peter Owen, who issued many of her biographies and translations, and thus she played a crucial role in introducing French authors, such as Jean Cocteau and Colette, as well as the Marquis de Sade, Apollinaire and Anaïs Nin, to mid-century British audiences. Owen observed that Crosland was "very important in advising us on books to publish. It was Margaret who pioneered Cocteau [. and] led us to Dalí, as she knew his novel Hidden Faces" (ibid). Her biographical subjects included both Colette and Jean Cocteau (titles much under discussion in her archive), Simone de Beauvoir, Raymond Radiguet and Edith Piaf, and she translated works by writers including Sade, Emile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt and Cesare Pavese, as well as Colette and Cocteau. She was also a voluminous correspondent, literary broker and networker, as her letters evidence in rich and fascinating detail. Peter Owen (2009) Interview with Steven Fowler, Vice Magazine.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: [One-page ALS & colour postcard, hand-written and signed, from Mavis Gallant to Margaret Crosland, saying they'll miss each other in Paris and briefly discussing the works of Julian MacLaren-Ross]
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1974
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
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