Emma Gelders Sterne papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0099
Scope and Contents
This collection contains contracts and business correspondence between Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne and her publishers at Dodd, Mead, and Company. The correspondence and contracts are dated from 1934 to 1953 and mostly include republication agreements between Sterne and the publishers. The collection includes materials related to The Calico Ball, Some Plant Olive Trees, and Drums of Monmouth.
Dates
- 1934-1953
Creator
- Sterne, Emma Gelders (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Biographical / Historical
Emma Gelders Sterne was born on May 13, 1894, in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Smith College in 1916, receiving a BA. After college, Sterne returned to Birmingham, where she was involved in a number of activist efforts, including the suffrage movement.
In 1917, she married lawyer Roy M. Sterne; the couple had two daughters, Ann and Barbara. The family moved to New York, where Roy worked for the Liggett Drug Company and Emma became involved in a number of activist groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union.
A prolific children's author, Sterne published a total of forty-four books during a literary career that spanned four decades. Several of her books, including No Surrender, Amarantha Gay, M.D., and The Calico Ball are set in Birmingham; another work, Some Plant Olive Trees, was inspired by the French settlement of Demopolis, Alabama.
Sterne spent her final years in California; she died on August 29, 1971, in San Jose.
Source: Encyclopedia of Alabama
In 1917, she married lawyer Roy M. Sterne; the couple had two daughters, Ann and Barbara. The family moved to New York, where Roy worked for the Liggett Drug Company and Emma became involved in a number of activist groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union.
A prolific children's author, Sterne published a total of forty-four books during a literary career that spanned four decades. Several of her books, including No Surrender, Amarantha Gay, M.D., and The Calico Ball are set in Birmingham; another work, Some Plant Olive Trees, was inspired by the French settlement of Demopolis, Alabama.
Sterne spent her final years in California; she died on August 29, 1971, in San Jose.
Source: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.
Physical Location
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, The University of Alabama
Provenance
Gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010
General
Title of phase box spine: Emma Gelders Sterne
Processed by
Haley Aaron, 2013
Creator
- Sterne, Emma Gelders (Author, Person)
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
Source
- Williams, A. S., III (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Emma Gelders Sterne papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- December 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository