TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Abby Louise Tallmadge
Scope and Content of the Collection
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Inventory of the Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers, ca. 1860-1952
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004. ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Tallmadge, Abby Louise |
| Title | Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers |
| Dates | ca. 1860-1952 |
| Extent | 1 cubic ft. (2 boxes) |
| Abstract | Correspondence to Abby L. Tallmadge from fellow scholars regarding her work on Jane Austen, a few manuscript copies of her scholarly work, a family scrapbook and printed material relating to the architectural work of her brother, Thomas Eddy Tallmadge. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Tallmadge |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 43 5 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Abby Louise Tallmadge, before 1967.
Processed by
Virginia H. Smith, 2001.
Access
The Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum, and items in each folder will be counted before and after delivery to the patron (Priority I).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Abby Louise Tallmadge
Evanston, Illinois sister of Chicago architect Thomas Eddy Tallmadge, who spent much of her life researching and writing about Jane Austen.
Abby Louise Tallmadge was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1878, two years after her brother, the well-known Chicago architect Thomas Eddy Tallmadge. After studying the Reconstruction period in American history and receiving an M.A. degree in 1917 from Northwestern University, Abby Tallmadge turned to an enduring interest in Jane Austen. This resulted in a Ph.D. from Northwestern in 1935 with a thesis which was titled Sense and Sensibility: Austenian Gleanings.
Abby Tallmadge never married, but spent her life in Evanston where she continued her education while maintaining an extended correspondence with Austen scholars. She was particularly close to Robert W. Chapman, an English editor and Oxford University publisher. Chapman, an avid and prolific scholar, produced a five-volume edition of Jane Austen's novels in 1923 plus numerous Austen studies that appeared in the next thirty years. Tallmadge saved over a hundred of his letters written between 1931 and 1950 which Chapman wrote responding to her literary theories and queries.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
The Abby Louise Tallmadge Papers consist of her incoming correspondence, primarily from Robert W. Chapman, secondarily from George Knight, a presumed descendant of Jane Austen, and a few other Austen scholars; some notes and work relating to Tallmadge's Ph.D. thesis and other literary memorabilia; and an early family scrapbook which contains genealogical information dating from ca. 1860. There is also material relating to Thomas Eddy Tallmadge which includes an 1891 diary of a trip to Europe and numerous newspaper clippings about his professional activities and reviews of his architectural books.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Abby Louise Tallmadge, 1930-1952. Box(es) 1
- Series 2: Tallmadge Family, 1860-1940 . Box(es) 1-2
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- Chapman, R. W. (Robert William), 1881-1960
- Knight, George
- Tallmadge family
- Tallmadge, Abby Louise
- Tallmadge, Thomas E. (Thomas Eddy), 1876-1940
Subjects
- Architects - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century - Sources
- Correspondence - England - Oxford - 1930-1952
- Diaries - Europe - 1891
- Manuscripts, American
- Manuscripts, English
- Scholars - England - Correspondence
- Scrapbooks - 1860-1915
- Travel literature - Europe - 1891
- Women authors, English - 19th century
- Women scholars - Illinois - Evanston - History - 20th century - Sources
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Container List
Series 1: Abby Louise Tallmadge, 1930-1952 |
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| Correspondence includes letters to Tallmadge relating to her Jane Austen scholarship, the bulk from English editor and Oxford University publisher Robert W. Chapman. There are also notes regarding Jane Austen and miscellaneous memorabilia about her and others. | |||||||||||
| Arranged by type of material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1931-1932 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1934-1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1936-1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1942-1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1944-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1947-1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Correspondence: Chapman, Robert W., 1949-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Correspondence: Knight, George, 1930-1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Correspondence: Knight, George, 1934-1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Correspondence, A - Z, 1930-1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Correspondence and Receipts: Pickering-Chatto, Ltd., 1939-1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Works: Jane Austen Notes | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Works: Scholarly Notes, Misc. | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Miscellaneous: Jane Austen Memorabilia | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Miscellaneous: Jane Austen Society (printed), 1934-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Miscellaneous: Literary Memorabilia (printed), 1926-1928 | |||||||||
Series 2: Tallmadge Family, 1860-1940 |
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| Includes a scrapbook containing information on the Tallmadge family genealogy and the Evanston childhood and education of Thomas and Abby Tallmadge, together with Thomas Eddy Tallmadge's diary, and clippings and reviews regarding his work. | |||||||||||
| Arranged by type of material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Tallmadge Family: Scrapbook, ca. 1860-1915 | |||||||||
| 2 | 22 | Tallmadge, Thomas Eddy: Diary, 1891 | |||||||||
| 2 | 23 | Tallmadge, Thomas Eddy: Misc. Clippings, 1916-1940 | |||||||||
| 2 | 24 | Tallmadge, Thomas Eddy, Reviews: Architecture in Old Chicago, 1941 | |||||||||
| 2 | 25 | Tallmadge, Thomas Eddy, Reviews: Story of Architecture in America, 1927-1929 | |||||||||
| 2 | 26 | Tallmadge, Thomas Eddy, Reviews: Story of England's Architecture, 1934 | |||||||||