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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 5 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

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