Press cuttings. Information artifacts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Art-related press cuttings, 1959-2003
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/256-262
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains the press cuttings Edith Simon retained, documenting press coverage and reviews for her art projects and exhibitions.
Dates:
1959-2003
Book-related press cuttings, 1940-1969
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/232-238
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains the press cuttings Edith Simon retained, documenting press coverage and reviews for her writing career and published books.
Dates:
1940-1969
Box containing papers of Edith Simon concerning her youth and early writings, entitled 'Juvenilia', 1930-1937
Series
Identifier: Acc.14390 Box 2 (1-12)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
1930-1937
Box containing the contents of a portfolio of Edith Simon, namely press cuttings concerning her artworks and exhibitions , 1988-1997
File
Identifier: Acc.13772/262
Scope and Contents
File contains original press cuttings and copies of articles and reviews concerning specific exhibitions. Exhibitions include The New Underground (1989); Society of Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen exhibition (1990); Lovely Odd Fish (1990); People in Papercut and Sculpture (1990); Signals II (1991); The Brillian Alternative Portrait Gallery (1992); New Locations-New Departures (1995); Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis (1996); and Edith Simon: Works (1997). This file also includes an...
Dates:
1988-1997
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Papers concerning Edith Simon's writing career, 1940-1994
Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/104-238
Scope and Contents
This series contains notebooks, manuscript drafts, typescript drafts, press cuttings, and research notes relating to Edith Simon's various writing projects, encompassing her books, plays, and screenplays, as well as some unrealised works.
The tete-a-beche style is used by Simon in most notebooks, writing from both ends of each volume.
Dates:
1940-1994
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008