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Gordon Geering
No full text"Gnr Gordon Geering NX 142016 19 Aust. Hvy A/A Btty Oval and Fannie Bay A/A Radar 1943 - 1945".Gunner Gordon Geering NX 142016. 19 Australian Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery. Oval and Fannie Bay. Anti Aircraft Radar 1943 - 1945
Guns
No full textMobile 3.7 inch guns at 19th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery. They were operated by a new mobile unit and replaced static 3.7 inch guns which were removed in 1944.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Caroline Gordon Collection
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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
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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
Ablution Block
No full textThe ablution block at the 19th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Anti-aircraft Battery
No full text19th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery. Command Post and gunners' accommodation built into revetments around each gun.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Anti-aircraft battery
No full text19th Heavy Anti-aircraft Battery, looking towards Fannie Bay. Battery ration truck in front of: left, ammunition magazine, centre, mess huts, stove and kitchen.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Anti-aircraft gun
No full textElevated 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun at 19th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery. Camouflage netting conceals crew's accommodation around the revetments. Guns controlled by dials receiving information from 'radar' through the Predictor in the centrally located Command Post.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Anti-aircraft gun
No full textDetail of 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun (static mount) at 19th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Anti-aircraft gun
No full textDetail of 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun (static mount) at 19th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:1944
Army camp
No full textTent accommodation for mobile unit which replaced static unit in late 1944, at 19th Heavy Anti-aircraft Battery.Geering, Gordon Alexander K.Date:194
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