Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16686, Charles Marriott papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift from Jerome McGann to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 2015 December 1.

Biographical / Historical

Charles Marriott (1869-1957), born in Bristol, England, was a writer and influential art critic of the early twentieth-century. He is perhaps best remembered now as the art critic for The Times (London) between 1924 and 1940. Before taking up that post, he was closely involved with some of the most important artists associated with St. Ives and Newlyn, as well as many of the period's most active writers. Besides his art criticism, he wrote many novels, stories, and some plays. He stopped publishing fiction in 1922 so the presence of an unpublished novel is interesting, whether it dates from the period of his novel writing or whether he wrote it later.

Source: From the collection.

Content Description

Bound and loose typescripts, manuscripts, offprints and miscellaneous materials written or translated by Charles Marriott from 1894 to 1960. Included are untitled novels, two of his plays "Exit: A Tragedy in One Act" and "The Intruding Angel: A Play in Three Acts", 15 offprints of his articles, and a bound volume manuscript of his short stories. Also present are manuscript notebooks with records of his publications as well as manuscript notes and ideas for stories he projected.