Series 2 - Articles and Other Writing

Identity area

Reference code

GB 1534 RM/2

Title

Articles and Other Writing

Date(s)

  • 1948-1983 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

Series contains 6 files of textual material.

Context area

Name of creator

(9/12/1911-5/4/1988)

Biographical history

Rosemary Joy Manning was born in Weymouth, Dorset, 9 December 1911. She attended boarding school in Devon and later studied at the Royal Holloway College from 1930 to 1933, graduating with a 2nd class honours degree in Classics.
Manning first worked in a department store on Oxford street and then as a secretary. Unhappy with her work she suffered a nervous breakdown and was treated at the Maudsley Hospital, following this Manning was offered a teaching job by her former headmistress where she stayed as a teacher for a further 35 years and in 1950 she moved to Hampstead, London to take over a long-established girls’ preparatory school as headmistress.
In 1957 Manning released Green Smoke, her first in the series of Dragon children’s books she would become well known for. In 1962 she released The Chinese Garden, following a failed suicide attempt. The book was later known as her greatest novel and an important piece of lesbian literature. After retiring, she publicly came out as a lesbian in a televised interview in 1980. She died on the 5th April 1988.

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Scope and content

Series contains published and unpublished writing including works, typed speeches, articles and written projects Manning wrote throughout her life that sometimes reflected her sexuality, feminism, coming out and lgbt rights.
This includes The Fox, The Garlands of Friendship, At the House of a Friend, The Habits of Secrecy, Alone in the House, The End of the Game, The Evening Class, Work in Progress, The Souvenir, The Keys of Heaven and over the plain. Several of the works appear in magazines.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged into seven series, and subsequent sub-series, by type of material.

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

    Language and script notes

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    Finding aids

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    Existence and location of copies

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    Description control area

    Description identifier

    GB 1534 RM

    Institution identifier

    GB 1534

    Rules and/or conventions used

    ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

    Status

    Final

    Level of detail

    Full

    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Created by Mae Moss, 22nd September 2021.

    Language(s)

    • English

    Script(s)

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