Caroline Ticknor collection of American authors and publishers, 1862/1913

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16488, Caroline Ticknor collection of American Authors and Publishers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
.06 Cubic Feet Two letter sized folders
Creator:
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, Ticknor, Benjamin Holt, 1842-1914, and Osgood, James Ripley, 1836-1892
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16488, Caroline Ticknor collection of American Authors and Publishers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains forty-one letters and manuscripts by American authors and publishers from the files of James R. Osgood & Co. and its successor Ticknor & Co assembled by Caroline Ticknor (1866-1937), daughter of Benjamin Holt Ticknor (1842-1914) and granddaughter of William Davis Ticknor (1810-1864).

Many of the authors represented in this collection have related collections in the Small Library. Authors represented in this collection of letters and manuscripts are: Henry Mills Alden, Edward Bellamy, William Cullen Bryant, Edwin Lassetter Bynner, Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Durand, Edward Everett, Edgar Fawcett, Eugene Field, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Edmund Gosse, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Lafcadio Hearn, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Dean Howells, Laurence Hutton, Lucy Larcom, Louise Chandler Moulton, Mary Noailles Murfree, James R. Osgood, Nora Perry, John Godfrey Saxe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Benjamin Holt Ticknor, John Townsend Trowbridge, Lewis Wallace, Susan Wallace, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

Biographical / historical:

As a member of a family prominent in the publishing business, from childhood Caroline Ticknor knew many men and women in the literary establishment and was devoted to their work. She was the granddaughter of William Davis Ticknor, who founded Ticknor and Fields. The firm published the most successful authors of the period; directed the old Corner Bookstore, rendezvous for the intellectuals of Boston, Cambridge, and Concord at the time of their dominance in the country's cultural life; and also published the Atlantic Monthly, whose contributors included leading writers of America and England. Her father continued in the business, and Ticknor became an author and editor.

Having been educated privately, except for a year in public school and a special course at Radcliffe College, Ticknor began writing at the age of eighteen "for the fun of it." She wrote both short fiction and articles for Harper's, Century, the Independent, Cosmopolitan, the New England Magazine, and Atlantic. Although a collection of minor stories and a light satire appeared in 1896, her work as a biographer is more important.

Source: "Caroline Ticknor". Encyclopedia.com https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/ticknor-caroline

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased from The Brick Row Book Shop by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 12 March 2021.
Physical description:
fair
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Authors and publishers