Theodosia Garrow manuscript
Content Description
The Theodosia Garrow manuscript ( 1840s; 0.03 cubic feet) documents Garrow's poem titled "The Doom of Cheynholme". The manuscript consists of 24 pages: 6 gatherings of 4 pages each, tipped to stubs of paper.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1840s
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Biographical Note
Theodosia Garrow (1816-1865) was born on 28 November 1816 to singer Theodosia Fisher (circa 1769-1849) and East India Company official Joseph Garrow (1789-1857). Garrow grew up in Torquay, England and made her published debut as a poet in 1839. Garrow met and married Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892) in Florence, Italy on 3 April 1848. Garrow died in Florence on 13 April 1865.
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Extent
0.03 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Provenance
Accession 2019-0168 Purchased, 20 February 2019; Robert and Virginia Tunstall Trust Fund, 2018/2019.
Genre / Form
- Title
- Theodosia Garrow manuscript
- Author
- Tanner Greene
- Date
- 2 October 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States