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Dorothy Simpson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0329

Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes 12 folders of typescript, design and layout for graphics for Maine Islands as well as correspondence, reviews and interviews.

Dates

  • 1933-1999

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection.

Biographical/Historical Note

Aleda Dorothy Knowlton Simpson was born June 28, 1905 and grew up on Criehaven Island off the coast of Maine. Later in life, she lived on Gay's Island off Friendship and in Cushing with her longtime companion and well-known Maine author, Elizabeth Ogilvie. During the 1950s and 1960s, Simpson published a number of books for children and young adults, all set on islands off the coast of Maine. After Simpson's death on December 19, 1998 her niece, also named Dorothy Simpson, published The island's true child: a memoir of growing up on Criehaven (2003), based on Simpson's unpublished journals dating to 1930.

Extent

16 folders

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

This collection is organized as a single series.

Title
Guide to the Dorothy Simpson collection, 1933-1999
Status
Completed
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Maine Women Writers Collection Repository

Contact:
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States