Lettie Hamlett Rogers Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a bound copy of Rogers' 355-page unpublished work "Murder in the College Degree". It also contains typescript and corrections for published works "South of Heaven"(1946), "The Storm Cloud"(1951), "Landscape of the Heart"(1953), and "Birthright"(1957). There are 321 pages of script for "South of Heaven", 335 pages for "The Storm Cloud", 260 pages for "Landscape of the Heart" and 294 pages for "Birthright".
Dates
- 1940 - 1957
Creator
- Rogers, Lettie Hamlett, 1917- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information. Please see our Sensitive Materials Statement.
Biographical or Historical Information
Lettie Hamlett Rogers (1917-1957) was born in Soochow, central China, the daughter of missionary parents. She spent her childhood in China and Japan. After graduating from high school at the Shanghai American School she came to the United States to attend Woman's College (now UNCG). Rogers received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1940, and accepted a position as an assistant in the Sociology Department the following year. She shared a home with faculty members Lyda Gordon Shivers and Mereb Mossman. Two years later she left her position, but remained in North Carolina where she devoted herself full-time to her writing.
In 1948 Rogers returned to the Woman's College as an assistant professor in the English Department to teach creative writing. In 1955 she resigned in protest of the College administration's censure of the staff of the campus arts journal, Coraddi, for publishing a nude male figure drawn by art student Lee Hall (later to become head of the Rhode Island School of Design).
Rogers was well known in North Carolina literary circles. She published four novels, South of Heaven (Random House, 1946), The Storm Cloud (Random House, 1951), Landscape of the Heart (Random House, 1953), and Birthright (Simon and Schuster, 1957). She also wrote one unpublished novel, Murder in the College Degree (1940), under the name "Lettie Logan". The story is set on a fictionalized woman's college campus with faculty members from the history and psychology departments serving as detectives to help local police.
Extent
0.83 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Lettie Hamlett Rogers (1917-1957), the child of missionaries, spent her girlhood in China and Japan, before attending Woman's College (now UNCG), where she later became a professor of creative writing. She published four novels in her lifetime.
The Lettie Hamlett Rogers Papers date from 1940 to 1957 and contain typed manuscripts of her works.
Arrangement Note
The typescripts comprising this collection are arranged chronologically and by ascending chapter number.
Method of Acquisition
Gift of Lettie Hamlett Rogers in 1953 and 1957.
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Processing Information
Processed by archives staff, Encoded by Jason Alston in June, 2009.
- Alumni publications
- American literature -- 20th century
- College teachers as authors -- 20th century
- Manuscripts, American -- North Carolina -- Greensboro
- Rogers, Lettie Hamlett, 1917-
- Southern States -- Fiction
- Women authors, American -- North Carolina -- 20th century
- Women college teachers -- 20th century
- Title
- Lettie Hamlett Rogers Papers
- Author
- archives staff
- Date
- 06/01/2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository