Description
Elizabeth Gould Davis was an American lesbian librarian and author who wrote the feminist text The First Sex. Her unpublished
follow up manuscript for The Female Principle is contained within this collection.
Background
Elizabeth Gould Davis was born in Kansas in 1910 and earned her master's degree in librarianship at the University of Kentucky
in 1951. She worked as a librarian at Sarasota, Florida and while there wrote The First Sex. She died in 1974.
Extent
0.5 linear ft.
(1 box)
Restrictions
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retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Availability
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