Coleção GB 0074 LMA/4251 - CLAIRE RAYNER: THE PERFORMERS

1.82 linear metres

GB 0074 LMA/4251 1971-1985 Collection 1.82 linear metres Rayner , Claire Berenice , 1931-2010 , journalist and author

Claire Rayner was born in January 1931 in London, and died in October 2010. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Northern Hospital, London winning the gold medal for outstanding achievement when she became an SRN in 1954. She also studied midwifery at Guy's Hopsital, worked at Royal Free Hospital and as a Paediatric Sister at the Whittington Hospital.

She is probably best known as an "Agony Aunt", and has written over 90 books both fiction and non-fiction cover topics such as home-nursing, sex-education, baby and child care. Her fiction has covered scenarios from medical ethics, to crime, to the Holocaust.

Received in two accessions in 2000 and 2001.

Papers relating to the Claire Rayner novels The Performers, a twelve book series about London which traces a family from the 1800s. The series contains draft manuscripts of each volume along with research, time lines and notes on political events, dress, religion, travel, medicine, foreign affairs, industry and agriculture covering the period during which the novels are set.

Arranged in order of the number of the book in the series.

These records are available for public inspection although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

August to October 2010. Urban life Rayner , Claire Berenice , 1931-2010 , journalist and author Historical fiction Fiction Novelists Authors Literature Literary forms and genres Prose Novels History Historical research Urban development Urban sociology London England UK Western Europe Europe

Received in two accessions in 2000 and 2001.

Papers relating to the Claire Rayner novels The Performers, a twelve book series about London which traces a family from the 1800s. The series contains draft manuscripts of each volume along with research, time lines and notes on political events, dress, religion, travel, medicine, foreign affairs, industry and agriculture covering the period during which the novels are set.

Arranged in order of the number of the book in the series.

These records are available for public inspection although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

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English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• inglês