Archives of QM English alumna bought by British Library
‘British Library buys archives of former Queen Mary College student’
East London Advertiser
Alumni Office: Eva Figes
The archives of Queen Mary alumna and Honorary Fellow Eva Figes have been sold to the British Library for £20,000. The collection, which includes boxes of her notebooks, letters, typescripts and proofs of her novels and non-fiction, will be made available alongside the work of Harold Pinter and Ted Hughes. She studied English at Queen Mary and graduated in 1953, having come to Britain fleeing from the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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