FITZGERALD, SALLY.
Sally Fitzgerald papers, circa 1930-2000

Restrictions on Access

Series 6: Collected materials - Some materials (Boxes 62-67) are closed to researchers.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

The collection contains some copies of original materials held by Georgia College Special Collections; these copies may not be reproduced without the permission of the owner of the originals.

Source

Purchase from Caterina Fitzgerald, Ughetta Lubin, and M.J. Fitzgerald, 2008. Additions were purchased from Fitzgerald, Lubin, and Fitzgerald in 2014. Louise Florencourt donated an addition to the collection in 2013.

Custodial History

Caterina Fitzgerald, Ughetta Lubin, and M.J. Fitzgerald are daughters of Sally Fitzgerald. Louise Florencourt is Flannery O'Connor's cousin.

Citation

[after identification of item(s)], Sally Fitzgerald papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Appraisal Note

Acquired by former director of the Rose Library, Stephen Enniss, as part of the library's holdings in Southern literature.

Processing

Processed by Katy Hangii and Susan Potts McDonald, November 2010

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Biographical Note

Sally Fitzgerald (1917-2000) was a writer and editor of several volumes of Flannery O'Connor's letters and works. Sally and her husband, Robert Fitzgerald, met Flannery O'Connor in 1949, while O'Connor was finishing a fellowship at the Yaddo Community in New York. O'Connor then lived with the Fitzgeralds in Connecticut while writing her first novel, Wise Blood. In 1969, the Fitzgeralds co-edited Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose of Flannery O'Connor. Sally then embarked on the project of compiling O'Connor's letters in the early 1970s and published The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor in 1979. Fitzgerald also edited the Library of America edition of Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works, released in 1988.

Publication Note

Selections of O'Connor's letters were originally published in 1979 in The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Other letters edited by Sally Fitzgerald appear in Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor, which was published in 1988.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of the papers of Sally Fitzgerald from circa 1930-2000. The collection reflects Fitzgerald's lifelong research and writing on American author Flannery O'Connor. The papers include correspondence, writings by Fitzgerald, printed material by and about Fitzgerald, photographs, writings by others, audiovisual material, and collected correspondence and writings relating to Flannery O'Connor.

The correspondence includes letters from friends and colleagues of Fitzgerald's; as well as numerous O'Connor friends, acquaintances and scholars. The writings series contains Fitzgerald's book-length works, articles, lectures, and interviews. The printed material series includes published works by and about Fitzgerald, the photograph series contains images of Fitzgerald and collected photos of O'Connor, and the audiovisual series includes two interviews of Fitzgerald. The series of collected correspondence and writings relating to Flannery O'Connor contains material that Fitzgerald accumulated over her years of research on O'Connor. The collection also includes writings by others which relate to O'Connor.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by into seven series: (1) Correspondence and subject files, (2) Writings by Fitzgerald, (3) Printed material, (4) Photographs, (5) Writings by others, (6) Collected correspondence and writings relating to Flannery O'Connor, and (7) Audiovisual.