Eleanor Mayo manuscript
Collection Scope and Content
This collection contains one unpublished manuscript by Mayo, entitled The Pleasure Dome.
Dates
- undated
Creator
- Mayo, Eleanor R., 1920- (Person)
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
Born in 1920, novelist Eleanor Mayo grew up in Southwest Harbor, Maine, and from the age of 27 until her death in 1981 she and her life companion, well-known Maine novelist Ruth Moore, lived on Mount Desert Island. Active in local politics, Mayo was the first ever female elected selectman in Tremont, Maine, and later served as the town's tax assessor for many years. Mayo published five novels during her lifetime: Turn Home (1945); Loom of the Land (1946); October Fire (1951); Swan's Harbor (1953) and Forever Stranger (1958). Turn Home was made into the 1950 film Tarnished. In 2004, Maine's Blackberry Books published When Foley Craddock Tore Off my Grandfather's Thumb: The Collected Stories of Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo.
Extent
.25 linear foot (10 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is organized as a single series.
- Correspondence Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Manuscripts Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Mayo, Eleanor R., 1920-
- Southwest Harbor (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Eleanor Mayo manuscript, undated
- 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
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu