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A Guide to a Shirley Seifert Manuscript, Accession 5037, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
This manuscript was given to the Library by George Stevens, Managing Editor, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 11, 1955.
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
This collection consists of the typed manuscript of Farewell, My General , 1954, by Shirley Seifert .
Shirley Seifert was born in St. Peters, Missouri in 1889. She received an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis and taught high school for several years before beginning her writing career. A prolific writer, she wrote many short stories and over 20 historical novels, including Land of Tomorrow (1937), Those Who Go Against The Current (1943), Three Lives of Elizabeth , (1952) and Let My Name Stand Fair (1956) as well as Farewell, My Genera l (1954). All of her novels are based on real people, either well-known or ordinary. She continued writing until her death in 1971.