e-Text Editions



(mostly) by and/or about
FPG (Felix Paul Greve/Frederick Philip Grove)
&
Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL)

It all started with a proto-website with information about the University of Manitoba Archives' FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven) Collections in 1995/96. The first e-document was a digitized version of a grey, folded brochure about the UMA's holdings by/about the Canadian author & German translator FPG (Greve/Grove). Curt Campbell designed for this purpose the FPG image we call "Solar Grove" & use prominently as a kind of trade-mark on our web-pages.

In 1997, information about the upcoming International Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" was added. But the e-publications of Grove's first autobiographical novel A Search for America (1927) in 2000, & of his unpublished manuscript Jane Atkinson (ca. 1925, initially "by Andrew R. Rutherford", a proposed pseudonym) in 2001 really established the Archive's electronic editing program from the FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections.

Smaller clusters, such as Gide's "Conversation avec un Allemand", with two very informative 1904 letters by Greve [one of which addresses the "Fanny Essler" plans in poetry & prose], followed as an online, bilingual French/English e-text edition in 2001.

Freytag-Loringhoven's hilarious, satirical, narrative poems about her former lover Ernst Hardt & her first husband August Endell came next, in the original German with English translation in a parallel-text arrangement.

In 2005, the seven poems Else & Greve published under their joint pseudonym 'Fanny Essler' went up punctually on occasion of the 100th Anniversary of their first appearance in Die Freistatt on March 25, 1905. These, I had discovered in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv, Marbach, in early May 1990, following a lead in Greve's Oct. 1904 letter to Gide.
A related 2005 e-Ed. of gd's Arachne article (1996) about the 'Fanny Essler' complex was published concurrently. It contained the first publication of two of FrL's German poems from her University of Maryland collection -- "Schalk" & "Schneetag" -- which are directly based on the three central sonnets & poem 7 of 'Fanny Essler's 1904/5 poetry cycle.

Several key-documents, such as Greve's autobiographical sketch for Brümmer's Lexikon in March 1907, Kippenberg's Sep. 1909 reply to Else Greve about her husband's alleged suicide, or Thomas Mann's 1939 letters to Grove have also been made electronically available, as have many detailed BISON records describing the UM Libraries' & Archives' unique resources by or about FPG & FrL.

Plans & Projects

Apart from Greve's correspondence with Stefan George, André Gide, O. A. H. Schmitz, Karl Wolfskehl, H. G. Wells, & Insel Publishers & Grove's revealing letters to his mentor A. L. Phelps in the early 1920s held in the UM Archives' extensive Greve/Grove collections, the following substantial holdings are in various stages of completion & will be made available in electronic format as soon as they are ready:

A revised & updated electronic edition of FPG's German & Canadian complete known poetry, including the 1904/5 "Fanny Essler" poetry cycle, FrL's poems based on them as well as those related to Greve, Greve's 1898 Dante sonnets, Grove's 1939 Nietzschean aphorisms, & Greve's introduction to his edition of Hofmannswaldau.
Most of these poems were originally published in December 1993.
A ten-months research leave was approved for this 2006/7 e-project.

An online description of the UManitoba Archives & Special Collections major research archives about FPG & Freytag-Loringhoven by D. O. Spettigue, Margaret Stobie, & G. Divay.
Minor clusters include documents or publications deposited by Irene Gammel, Lorne Lulashnyk, Henry Makow, M. Rubio, & many others.

e-Editions of FPG's German & French correspondence with Karl Wolfskehl, Stefan George, Insel Publishers R. von Poellnitz & A. Kippenberg, O. A. H. Schmitz, and André Gide, complete with English translations for the benefit of Canadian FPG scholars, faculty, teachers & students. Greve's letters to H. G. Wells (in poor English) only require observations about this 1903-1909 epistolary exchange.

Digitizing or "streaming" all twelve video-tapes documenting the papers presented at the International "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998" Anniversary Symposium on September 30, October 1st & 2nd, 1998, has been accomplished in the summer of 2005, starting with Carol Shield's Opening Address & the late Walter Pache's Lecture on FPG's Odyssey (subtitle of Grove's 1st autobiography, A Search for America, 1927 & e-Edition 2001), the Banquet with speeches by former Manitoba Premier & Governor Lieutenant General, The Honorable Edmund Schreyer, as well as Leonard Grove, & impressions of Prof. Ottenbreit's Guided Tour through Grove Country to Rapid City
[Dr. Barry Pomeroy, from FPG & FrL Endowment Fund].

Preparing a 36-slide Power Point Presentation for integration into the ©2000 e-Edition of FPG's mss novel Jane Atkinson, ca. 1925, in lieu of an introduction

Depositing a 30-slide Power Point Presentation on Montaigne & the French Renaissance (in English) in the newly created electronic archives & reserves, UManitoba Libraries

Depositing an anticipated 50-slide Power Point Presentation on the French Renaissance, including Montaigne (in French), in the newly created electronic archives & reserves, UManitoba Libraries, as part of the Course Website created for "Littérature française du XVIe siècle" in 2003/4

Preparing the 1994 video-taped interview conducted by Roy Campbell about Grove's Settlers of the Marsh, 1925, Else von Freytag-Loringhoven and the scandalous pair's farming experience in Sparta, Kentucky, in 1910/11 for on-line access

Revising and illustrating the video recording of the 1996 LCMND Presidential Dinner Address about the discovery of FPG's Bonanza Farm near Fargo, N.D. -- including his tenure there in the fall of 1912, just before settling as Grove in Manitoba

Revising & e-publishing the grossly outdated 1976 Finding Aid to the Frederick Philip Grove Collection, and linking what is extant there to various recent findings in post-FPG identity discovery times
Note: in particular, the following important discoveries are owed to a respectful reading of Grove's first autobiographical novel A Search for America, ©1927, and, as e-edition, ©2001/5
1. Pittsburgh, November 2000:
the identification of the crooked publisher & the multi-volume set peddled by FPG in Pittsburgh and elsewhere to ignorant industrialists, as described exclusively in A Search for America
2. Ottawa, October 1998:
Greve's passage to Canada in July 1909. It was found because four clues, which were truthfully recorded by Grove on the very first pages of his Search for America, were taken seriously.
To wit: the summer season (July), the route from Liverpool to Montreal, the "2nd cabin" accommodation, and the voyage aboard a White Star Liner, which turned out to be the brand-new, 1909 steamer Megantic
Note: the circumstances of Greve/FPG's passage in 1909 are described in both his autobiographies, A Search for America, 1927, and In Search of Myself, 1946. The setting is 1892 in both accounts
3. Fargo, N.D., March 1996:
the Bonanza Farm & the immensely rich Chaffee dynasty, which may well be regarded as one major inspiration for Grove's 1938 novel The Master of the Mill
Note: Greve/FPG's tenure there in 1912 is described in both his autobiographies, A Search for America, 1927, and In Search of Myself, 1946
4. College Park, Maryland, April 1991:
the farming experience of the Greve couple near Sparta, Kentucky, and its precise location are recorded uniquely on one of Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's German poems dedicated to "FPG" in Maryland. There are interesting intertextual reflections of this 1910/11 episode in Grove's first Canadian novel, Settlers of the Marsh, 1925
Note: the Kentucky year is categorically omitted from Grove's two autobiographies, A Search for America, 1927, and In Search of Myself, 1946

Finalizing the ca. 120-page document describing the 500-odd volumes in the Frederick Philip Grove Library Collection, and e-publishing it on the UM Archives & Special Collections website. All received full cataloguing in 1993/94, which represents as many mini-e-publications automatically copyrighted by gd (Gaby Divay).

Documenting the relations between Greve & Thomas Mann in Munich's Pension Gisela in 1902, and Greve as one likely source of inspiration for Mann's impostor hero in his fragment Felix Krull.
Exploring the significance of Mann's two replies to Grove's (lost) correspondence in 1939:
Mann, recently arrived in Princeton, N.J., acknowledged the receipt of Grove's novels A Search for America and Two Generation, and gave his opinion about the latter.

Prepare for e-publication the documentation of findings unearthed during research/travel excursions to Europe & North America, all supported by UM research grants, and, since 1996, also partly by the FPG Endowment Fund.

Complete & propagate the 2006 F. P. Greve Translations Collection website, comprising some 220 webpages describing the ca. 55 titles held at the UM Archives.
Several papers about Greve's translation have been e-published to document this Rare Book Collection.

German Literature Papers


Nine Papers
Prepared for a post-doctoral M.A. Degree in German Studies
University of Manitoba German Department, 1986-1990
by
Gaby Divay
University of Manitoba, Archives & Special Collections
© e-Edition, 2005-

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