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Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001

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Biographical Note

Elizabeth Jennings was born in Lincolnshire. She attended Oxford University, and was a freelance writer. She won several prizes for her books of poetry. She also wrote prose, translated the Sonnets of Michelangelo, and edited a number of works. A way of looking (1955) garnered Jennings the Somerset Maugham Award in 1956. She sold well with Selected Poems (1979) and Collected Poems (1986) and was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1992. She died in Oxford in 2001.

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Elizabeth Jennings papers

 Collection
Abstract

These papers concern the life and work of twentieth-century British writer Elizabeth Jennings. Materials include published and unpublished manuscripts and poetry, poetry notebooks, prose, reviews and essays, printed material, ephemera, and correspondence.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1957-1996, undated

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