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SLC 0100 <. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection (Selected Materials)

 Collection Category
Identifier: SLC 0100 <
The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection focuses on British literature and art of the period 1850 to 1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and the writers and illustrators of the 1890s, such as Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, Max Beerbohm, William Morris, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Aubrey Beardsley. These SLC numbered materials represent only a small portion of the collection, with most items instead accessible through DELCAT. For additional information on the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection please visit: https://library.udel.edu/special/home/collections/mark-samuels-lasner-collection/

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Austin Dobson collection

 Collection
Identifier: SLC 0100
Abstract

Books, largely first editions and presentation copies, as well as manuscript materials related to English poet, essayist, and biographer Austin Dobson.

Dates: circa 1850-1930

Fabian tracts

 Collection
Identifier: SLC 0121
Abstract

Two volume bound collection of materials related to the Fabian Society in Great Britain, formed by H. Halliday Sparling, William Morris’s son-in-law, co-editor of The Commonweal, and eventual secretary of the Kelmscott Press.

Dates: 1884-1938

Nellie Farren, Book of tastes : autograph manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: SLC 0122
Abstract

Autograph book of questionnaires completed by theatrical celebrities and others, collected by the music hall star and actress, Ellen "Nellie" Farren. Participants include Tom Hood, J. R. Planche, Lord Lytton (referring to his son, Owen Meredith), F. C. Burnand, and Clement Scott.

Dates: 1864-1876