Metadata: Papers of Asenath Petrie
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 349 A2080
- Title:
- Papers of Asenath Petrie
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Asenath Petrie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Petrie, Asenath
- Date(s):
- 1957/2003
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1.03 linear metres: 9 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The archive contains series of personal and family papers, material relating to Asenath Petrie’s poetry and writings and to her career as a psychologist. The personal and family papers include: correspondence with members of or relating to the Schonfeld family, 1979-2000, correspondence with Dr Ernest Petrie and members of the Petrie family, 1971-95; papers relating to the estate of her mother Rachel Leah Schonfeld, 1962-87. A second parallel but smaller series of general correspondence covers the period 1961-96. Within the collection are drafts of poetry and text for short articles, 1975-91, correspondence relating to poetry and other writings, 1974-2000, and reviews of publications, 1967-2003. For Asenath Petrie’s career and work as a psychologist, there are files on her research posts, 1957-77, and a series of correspondence, 1954-99, including with Professor P J Huntingford, St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, 1970-1; Dr Sandra Indzers, 1968-77; Dr Pavel Krabec, 1974-95; with Psychological Reports, 1964, 1974-82; with the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 1965, 1968-76. Asenath Petrie wrote numerous articles on the management of pain, copies of which are found in the collection, together with research material and copies of articles by others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr Asenath Petrie (1914-2001) was the daughter of Rabbi Avigdor Schonfeld and the sister of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld. She trained as a psychologist and wrote extensively on this subject. Asenath Petrie also was a published poet and the author of ‘Rerooted in Jerusalem’, an autobiographical diary. She moved to Israel in 1973 and died in January 2001.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Pittsburgh
- Access points: persons/families:
- Petrie family
- Petrie, Asenath
- Schonfeld family
- Schonfeld, Avigdor
- Schonfeld, Rachel Leah
- Schonfeld, Solomon
- Subject terms:
- Health and medical matters
- Literature
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections