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- catalog abstract "Collection includes biographical and genealogical material; school records; her undergraduate thesis; published and unpublished writings; menus for parties, articles by and about Davison, background material for books, typed accounts of her interviews with women in various occupations done for Mademoiselle; correspondence with her agent, publishers and friends; records of the family's move into the Mercantile Wharf Building on Boston's waterfront; and some material re: cancer.".
- catalog contributor b2346932.
- catalog contributor b2346933.
- catalog contributor b2346934.
- catalog coverage "Cambridge (Mass.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog date "1937".
- catalog description "Collection includes biographical and genealogical material; school records; her undergraduate thesis; published and unpublished writings; menus for parties, articles by and about Davison, background material for books, typed accounts of her interviews with women in various occupations done for Mademoiselle; correspondence with her agent, publishers and friends; records of the family's move into the Mercantile Wharf Building on Boston's waterfront; and some material re: cancer.".
- catalog description "Jane Davison Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog description "Social historian and editor, Jane Auchincloss Truslow Davison (1932-1981) wrote frequently about houses and architecture and was the author of The Fall of a Doll's House: Three Generations of American Women and the Houses They Lived In; and This Old House, a book based on the public television series. A graduate of Smith College (1955), Davison worked as an editor in New York for Mademoiselle, Anchor-Doubleday, and New York University Press, and, in Boston, at Harvard University Press. She wrote regularly for the New York Times Magazine on architectural and social subjects during the 1970s, as well as the gentrification of urban places such as Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston. She married Peter Davison, poetry editor of The Atlantic; they had two children. She died of cancer in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 1981.".
- catalog extent "2 linear ft. (2 cartons, 1 oversize folder)".
- catalog issued "1937".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Cambridge (Mass.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic United States.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American.".
- catalog subject "Child, Julia.".
- catalog subject "Davison, Jane.".
- catalog subject "Didion, Joan.".
- catalog subject "Faneuil Hall Marketplace (Boston, Mass.)".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States.".
- catalog subject "Thompson, Benjamin, 1918-2002.".
- catalog subject "Updike, John.".
- catalog subject "Women Employment United States.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American.".
- catalog subject "Women journalists United States.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1937-1981.".