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Frances Mossiker Papers, 1957-1970Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NoteFrances Mossiker, undatedFrances (Fanny) Sanger Mossiker was born on 9 April 1906. She was a non-graduating member of Smith College, Class of 1927, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She also studied at Barnard and the Sorbonne. She married Dallas businessman Jacob Mossiker in 1926 and settled with him in Texas. Mossiker had a life-long interest in 17th and 18th century France and wrote several biographies and works of historical fiction with that as the backdrop: The Queen's Necklace (1961), Napoleon and Josephine: A Biography of a Marriage (1964), The Affair of the Poisons (1969), More Than a Queen (1971), and Madame de Sevigne (1983). In 1961, she won two awards for The Queen's Necklace: the Carr Collins Award for best non-fiction book by a Texas author, and an award from Theta Sigma Phi, the National Fraternity for Women in Journalism. She won the Carr Collins Award again in 1964 for Napoleon and Josephine. She also published several translations. Frances Mossiker died on 9 May 1985. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe Frances Mossiker Papers consist of correspondence 1961-71; writings, 1961-83; undated photographs of Mossiker; photographic reproductions of paintings, for use in her books; notes for broadcasts and speeches, 1961-62; awards, 1961; newspaper clippings, 1960-69; reviews, 1961; and publicity, 1961-65. NOTE: There is no container list for this collection. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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