A Guide to a Shirley Seifert Manuscript Seifert, Shirley. 5037

A Guide to a Shirley Seifert Manuscript

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Accession number 5037


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
5037
Title
Shirley Seifert Manuscript 1954
Extent
1 item
Collector
George Stevens
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

A Guide to a Shirley Seifert Manuscript, Accession 5037, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This manuscript was given to the Library by George Stevens, Managing Editor, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 11, 1955.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

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.