American Literary Studies
Hannah Green Papers
The Collections
Stanford has comprehensive holdings of Hannah Green writings, including
literary manuscripts, working notes, correspondence, photographs, and personal
notebooks. These are contained in several different collections, each described
below.
Location of All Collections: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special Collections
are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections' Reading Room
in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday
through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some
materials in the collections. For more information about the collections and
access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022,
by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department
of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California
94305-6004.
Career of Hannah Green (1927-1996)
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Matthew Addy and Mary McAlpin Green,
Hannah Green was a precocious literary child, who began working
as a writer at an early age. She studied fiction as an undergraduate
at Wellesley under Vladimir Nabokov, and in 1956 with Wallace Stegner
at Stanford, where she became a close friend to Tillie Olsen and
also initiated her life-long career in teaching. She was awarded
a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1960 and spent several terms there
in residence. She moved to New York in 1961 where she served as
a research assistant to Matthew Josepson until 1965. The early history
of her family became the subject of her first book, The Dead
of the House (1973). It was a critically acclaimed and carefully
wrought work which took her over 10 years to complete. In 1971 she
married the artist, John Wesley, with whom she regularly spent summers
in France. This resulted in the publication of a children’s
book, In the City of Paris (1985), as well as her second
novel. On a visit to the village of Conques, she was inspired by
the story of the child martyr, Saint Foy, which became the subject
of Little Saint (2000), published posthumously by Random
House.
Collections of Hannah Green Material:
Hannah Green Papers, 1950 - 98
Size: 25 linear feet
Call Number: M1030
Finding Guide: A partial listing of the
collection (item level) can be viewed by clicking here.
Contents: The collection contains extensive correspondence to and
from Hannah Green including letters exchanged with Tillie Olsen from the
1950’s into the 1990’s. Numerous drafts of Hannah Green’s
published works are included in the collection, as well as drafts of such
uncompleted works as College Days and Dreams and Early Memories.
Hannah Green’s notebooks spanning the years 1963 though 1993, are also
present, along with family papers, letters, and photographs from the late
19th century into the 1930’s.
Letters To Vincent McHugh, 1957 - 59
Size: 3 linear feet
Call Number: M1004
Finding Guide: Unpublished finding aid available (item level) in
Special Collections.
Contents: The collection contains copies of Hannah Green’s correspondence
to Vincent Mchugh from 1957 through 1959.
Last modified:
July 5, 2006
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