Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Processing History
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Josephina Niggli Book Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1882-1975
Collection number: 37
Creator: Niggli, Josephina
1910-1983
Extent:
4 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The personal book Collection donated to UCLA
by dramatist, writer and teacher, Josephina Niggli.
n.b.
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Physical location: The collection is stored at the
Southern Regional Library Facility, UCLA. Voyager ID: 4053653
Language of Material: Collection materials in Spanish, English
Access
Access is available by appointment for UCLA student and faculty
researchers as well as independent researchers. To view the collection
or any part of it, please contact the archivist at
archivist@chicano.ucla.edu or the librarian at yretter@chicano.ucla.edu
Publication Rights
For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by
permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies
Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the
Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research
Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Josephina Niggli Book Collection, 37,
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Processing History
Processed by CSRC/ Ernesto Martinez, June 2006
Biography
Niggli was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico on July 13, 1910.
Her father Frederick Ferdinand Niggli, whose Swiss and Alsatian
forebears immigrated to Texas in 1836, had moved to Mexico in 1893 and
found a job as the manager of a cement plant in the village of Hidalgo.
Josephina's mother, Goldie (Morgan) Niggli, was a violinist of Irish,
French and German descent.
In 1925 Niggli was sent to San Antonio,
Texas when she was 15 years old to finish her high school education.
Afterward she received her B.A. from the College of the Incarnate Word,
majoring in Philosophy and minoring in History. She credited Dr. Roehl,
head of the English Department at the College of the Incarnate Word,
with influencing her to become a writer. During her college years,
Niggli published articles in Mexican Life and Ladies' Home Journal. Her
early creative efforts earned her prizes both in fiction writing (
Ladies' Home Journal) and poetry (the National Catholic Poetry Contest).
She received her M.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1937.
While there she wote a number of plays including her master's thesis,
Singing Valley in 1936, the Carolina Playmakers produced Tooth or Shave
( 1935, 1936), The Cry of Dolores, Soldadera, The Red Velvet Goat,
Azteca, Sunday Costs Five Pesos ( 1936), and The Fair-God (
1937).
In 1938 Margaret Mayorga published Niggli's play This Is
Villa in The Best One-Act Plays of 1938; Niggli's historical play
Soldadera was published in Mayorga The Best One-Act Plays of 1937. In
1939 Niggli began teaching English and drama at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Niggli also wrote for radio, television and
the film industry
Scope and Content
This collection consists of Josephina Niggli's book collection. Books
are in English and Spanish.