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    1973 Caroline Gordon - Plot

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    This was a lecture given by Caroline Gordon at the University of Dallas.University of Dalla

    Caroline Gordon Collection

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    Arrangement Description EXTENT Linear Feet: 2 linear feet Number of Containers: 2 boxes Series 1: Writings, 31 files Series 2: Lectures, 19 files Series 3: Courses, 10 files Series 4: Book Reviews, 5 files Series 5: About Caroline Gordon,8 files Series 6: Correspondence, 18 files Series 7: Books, 5 books Series 8: Media: 9 digital files, 9 cassettes, 2 reelsCOLLECTION DETAILS <---Please open FindingAid .pdf under "FILES" to see full collection details To request any materials from this collection please email: [email protected] BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note: Twentieth-century novelist Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville where she received her early education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916. Her father is the idealized subject of Gordon's second novel, Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), and the central character in her much-anthologized story, "Old Red." Gordon taught briefly; then, as a journalist, she became one of the first reviewers to comment favorably on a new Nashville-based magazine of poetry, The Fugitive. During the summer of 1924, Robert Penn Warren, a Todd County neighbor, introduced her to Allen Tate. Within a year they were married and living in New York City, where their daughter, Nancy Meriwether was born. With Tate, she began a period of life abroad, devoted to writing and sustained by various fellowships granted to one or the other. In London, Gordon was secretary to the influential British writer Ford Madox. In 1930 the Tates returned to the United States and settled in Clarksville in a house provided by Tate's brother Ben and called "Benfolly." Both Tates were exceptionally hospitable to friends and encouraging to younger writers. Both were prolific correspondents, generous with constructive criticism. (Gordon eventually became mentor to several writers, most notably Flannery O'Connor). Although she had to wrest time for her writing from domestic and social obligations, the eight Benfolly years were especially productive for Gordon, who published four novels and several stories before 1937. The first novel was Penhally (1931), followed by Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937), studies of the southern family during the Civil War and Great Depression. Academic appointments of the 1940s took the Tates throughout the Southeast and to Princeton, where they established a home near their daughter, who married psychiatrist Percy Wood in 1944. During this time Gordon published her fifth novel, Green Centuries (1941). Her second related group of novels, The Woman on the Porch (1944), which deals with a troubled marriage, The Strange Children (1951), based on life at Benfolly, and The Malefactors (1956), is informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. She and her husband wrote The House of Fiction (1950), which was followed by Gordon's How to Read a Novel in 1957. Gordon lived in Princeton until 1973, teaching, and writing: The Glory of Hera (1972). An appointment in the creative writing program drew her to the University of Dallas (Gordon was 77 years old when she proposed the new creative writing program at UD). When her health began to fail in 1978, she moved to San Cristobal de las Casas in Chapas, Mexico, with her daughter and family. She died there on April 11, 1981. COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) was an American author. This collection consists of manuscripts of Gordon's work, including novels, lectures, and poetry during her time at the University of Dallas. It also includes correspondence with authors and family members, writings of others, and photographs. Lectures and Commentary available here: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2548University of Dalla

    Commentary on Caroline Gordon's Writings by M.E. Bradford, E.C. Curtsinger; Lyle Novinski

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    Commentary on Caroline Gordon's Writings by M.E. Bradford, E.C. Curtsinger; Lyle NovinskiUniversity of Dalla

    Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate

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    Caroline Gordon and her husband Allen Tate. Married in 1925, both Gordon and Tate were authors. In the 1930s the couple settled at Benfolly, an antebellum estate on the Cumberland River in Clarksville, Tennesse

    Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate Picnic

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    Black and white photograph of Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate hosting a picnic on their lawn with Dan Ross. The Cumberland River can be seen in the background as the authors sit around having drinks

    President F.L. Hovde and Caroline Gordon

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    Photograph of President F.L. Hovde, NOVELIST HONORED AT PURDUE -- Caroline Gordon, left, Princeton, N.J., distinguished American novelist, received the honorary doctor of literature degree at Purdue University's 114th commencement exercises Sunday (June 5). Shown on the right is President Frederick L. Hovde of Purdue. Miss Gordon was a writer-in-residence on the Purdue campus during the 1963-1964 school year. She is widely known for her book, "None Shall Look Back," a story of the Civil War. 6/5/196

    The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon

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    Hearing Adam: Gender Relationships in the Short Fiction of Caroline Gordon.

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    Writer and critic Caroline Gordon has been a participant on the Southern literary scene since the early 1930s, yet her works have been neither studied nor appreciated as frequently as the works of her male contemporaries. Her novels and short fiction never received the critical acclaim that they merited due to the perpetuation of the erroneous idea that women have little to say. While at the time other female writers were exploring their emancipation, Gordon retreated to the consistent confines of male-dominated tradition and created fiction embodying her conservative philosophy. This thesis will examine five pieces of her short fiction, \u27The Petrified Woman, Tom Rivers, One More Day, The Brilliant Leaves, and The Presence, to explore gender relationships and how Gordon\u27s background and personal beliefs impacted her body of work

    sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_09612033211050337 – Supplemental Material for Epidemiology of disease-activity related ophthalmological manifestations in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A systematic review

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    Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_09612033211050337 for Epidemiology of disease-activity related ophthalmological manifestations in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A systematic review by Nitish Jawahar, Jessica K Walker, Philip I Murray, Caroline Gordon and John A Reynolds in Lupus</p
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