B22122

Shelfmark

MS 428

Author

Hill, Susan

Title

Susan Hill archive :, 1957-2002 (bulk 1957-1983).

Physical description

3.58 linear metres (33 boxes).

Organization and arrangement of materials

Organised into two series: I. Susan Hill Papers, 1957-[1991]. II. Susan Hill Collection, 1964- 2002.

Note

Writings, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and other material documenting the early writing life of Susan Hill. The bulk of the papers are writings: novels, plays, short stories, and other writings. Much of Susan Hill's published fiction between 1957 and 1983 is represented here, as are two novels and two children's stories from 1984 to 1992. Also present in the collection is a theatre set model of the first production of The Woman in Black.

Note

The most extensive correspondence is with Pamela Hansford Johnson, who served as a mentor to Hill early in her career, and Hill's publisher Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. Other correspondents are Edward Adeane, Angus Wilson, Katharine Whitehorn, Hugo Williams, John Trewin, Polly Toynbee, Paul Theroux, Tom Stoppard, Susan Stanwood, Gillon Aitken, Susan Stanwood, Charles Snow, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Alan Sillitoe, Vernon Scannell, Norman St. John-Stevas, George Rylands, Anne Ridler, Terence Rattigan, Craig Raine, David Puttnam, Gerald Priestland, Anthony Powell, Peter Pears, Frank Muir, John Mortimer, Derek Mahon, Ian McKellen, Bernard Levin, Rosamond Lehmann, Marghanita Laski, R.B. Kitaj, Patrick Kavanagh, Richard Ingrams, Olwyn Hughes, Philip Howard, Michael Holroyd, James Herriot, John Heppenstall, Seamus Heaney, George Harewood, Hamish Hamilton, John Gielgud, Michael Frayn, Antonia Fraser, James Farrell, Dennis Enright, Maurice Edelman, Douglas Cleverdon, the Prince of Wales, Charles Causley, John Carey, James Cameron, Hugo Charteris, Melvyn Bragg, Ronald Blythe, Svetlana Allilueva, Kingsley Amis, W.E.K. Anderson, Janet Baker, Quentin Bell, Isaiah Berlin, Edward Blishen, Benjamin Britten, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Longford, Malcolm Muggeridge, Iris Murdoch, Sacheverell Sitwell, and Auberon Waugh. One of Sitwell's letters describes the death of his Eton friend Hugo Charteris in World War I.

Note

Biographical note: Susan Hill, British writer, author of The Albatross, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year, Strange Meeting, and The Woman in Black.

Restrictions on access

Letters from Pamela Hansford Johnson to Susan Hill restricted. The letters may only be consulted with permission from the Librarian.

Cite as

Susan Hill Archive. Eton College Library.

Indexes

Finding aid available.

Subject

Hill, Susan, Archives.

Subject

Charteris, Hugo Francis

Subject

Authors, British, 20th century.

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Adeane, Edward

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Wilson, Angus

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Whitehorn, Katharine

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Williams, Hugo

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Waugh, Auberon

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Trewin, J.C.

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Toynbee, Polly

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Theroux, Paul

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Stoppard, Tom

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Stanwood, Susan

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Aitken, Gillon R

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Stanwood, Susan

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Snow, C. P, (Charles Percy)

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Sitwell, Sacheverell

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Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher

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Sillitoe, Alan

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Scannell, Vernon

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St. John-Stevas, Norman

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Rylands, George

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Ridler, Anne

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Rattigan, Terence

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Raine, Craig

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Puttnam, David

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Priestland, Gerald

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Powell, Anthony

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Pears, Sir.

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Murdoch, Iris

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Muir, Frank

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Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Mortimer, John

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Mahon, Derek

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McKellen, Ian

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Longford, Elizabeth

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Levin, Bernard

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Lehmann, Rosamond

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Laski, Marghanita

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Kitaj, R. B

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Kavanagh, P. J, (Patrick Joseph)

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Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Isherwood, Christopher

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Ingrams, Richard

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Hughes, Olwyn

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Howard, Philip

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Holroyd, Michael

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Herriot, James

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Heppenstall, John Rayner

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Heaney, Seamus

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Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, earl of,

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Hamilton, Hamish

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Gielgud, John

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Frayn, Michael

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Fraser, Antonia

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Fowles, John

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Farrell, J.G.

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Enright, D.J.

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Edelman, Maurice

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Drabble, Margaret

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Cleverdon, Douglas

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Charteris, Hugo Francis

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Britten, Benjamin

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Charles, Prince of Wales,

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Causley, Charles

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Carey, John

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Cameron, James

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Blishen, Edward

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Bragg, Melvyn

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Blythe, Ronald

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Allilueva, Svetlana

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Amis, Kingsley

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Anderson, W. E. K

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Baker, Janet

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Bell, Quentin

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Berlin, Isaiah

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Hamish Hamilton Ltd

Link

Finding aid

001B22122

003LIBRARY CODE

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24510$aSusan Hill archive :$b1957-2002 (bulk 1957-1983).

300##$a3.58 linear metres (33 boxes).

351##$aOrganised into two series: I. Susan Hill Papers, 1957-[1991]. II. Susan Hill Collection, 1964- 2002.

500##$aWritings, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and other material documenting the early writing life of Susan Hill. The bulk of the papers are writings: novels, plays, short stories, and other writings. Much of Susan Hill's published fiction between 1957 and 1983 is represented here, as are two novels and two children's stories from 1984 to 1992. Also present in the collection is a theatre set model of the first production of The Woman in Black.

500##$aThe most extensive correspondence is with Pamela Hansford Johnson, who served as a mentor to Hill early in her career, and Hill's publisher Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. Other correspondents are Edward Adeane, Angus Wilson, Katharine Whitehorn, Hugo Williams, John Trewin, Polly Toynbee, Paul Theroux, Tom Stoppard, Susan Stanwood, Gillon Aitken, Susan Stanwood, Charles Snow, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Alan Sillitoe, Vernon Scannell, Norman St. John-Stevas, George Rylands, Anne Ridler, Terence Rattigan, Craig Raine, David Puttnam, Gerald Priestland, Anthony Powell, Peter Pears, Frank Muir, John Mortimer, Derek Mahon, Ian McKellen, Bernard Levin, Rosamond Lehmann, Marghanita Laski, R.B. Kitaj, Patrick Kavanagh, Richard Ingrams, Olwyn Hughes, Philip Howard, Michael Holroyd, James Herriot, John Heppenstall, Seamus Heaney, George Harewood, Hamish Hamilton, John Gielgud, Michael Frayn, Antonia Fraser, James Farrell, Dennis Enright, Maurice Edelman, Douglas Cleverdon, the Prince of Wales, Charles Causley, John Carey, James Cameron, Hugo Charteris, Melvyn Bragg, Ronald Blythe, Svetlana Allilueva, Kingsley Amis, W.E.K. Anderson, Janet Baker, Quentin Bell, Isaiah Berlin, Edward Blishen, Benjamin Britten, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Longford, Malcolm Muggeridge, Iris Murdoch, Sacheverell Sitwell, and Auberon Waugh. One of Sitwell's letters describes the death of his Eton friend Hugo Charteris in World War I.

500##$aBiographical note: Susan Hill, British writer, author of The Albatross, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year, Strange Meeting, and The Woman in Black.

506##$aLetters from Pamela Hansford Johnson to Susan Hill restricted. The letters may only be consulted with permission from the Librarian.

524##$aSusan Hill Archive. Eton College Library.

555##$aFinding aid available.

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