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Mary Ellen Chase papers
Collection
Identifier: 0072
Collection Scope and Content
This collection consists primarily of manuscript material highlighting Chase's writing process and publications. It focuses on three of the author's novels; early unpublished essays (1904-1909); extensive correspondence with family members, publishers, professors, statespersons, and other authors; and includes a small collection of photographs, both formal portraits and informal snapshots. The collection also holds exceptional personal scrapbooks created by the author, each one devoted to a...
Dates:
1902-1973
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
May Sarton papers
Collection
Identifier: 0318
Collection Scope and Content
The Sarton papers consists of diverse material types: an extensive photograph collection compiled by Sarton, correspondence, poetry drafts and typescripts, special printings, sound recordings, literary criticisms, published material, and personal memorabilia. Maine Women Writers Collection also holds a large portion of Sarton's personal library, over 2000 volumes, accessible on the University of New England library catalog, in addition to the inserts found in those books, which are housed as...
Dates:
1860-1994; Majority of material found within 1912-1980s
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Miriam Colwell collection
Collection
Identifier: 0074
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes an article about Miriam Colwell and Clifford S. Reynolds (Precursors of the "real" Maine by Sanford Phippen), reviews, and publishers' manuscripts for three of her books - Wind off the water, Day of the trumpet and Young.
Dates:
1945-1998
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Nora Archibald Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: 0356
Collection Scope and Content
The Nora Archibald Smith papers document Smith's life as an author and school administrator. The collection includes scrapbooks of her writings in publications such as Kindergarten Review, The Outlook, Primary School Popular Educator and New England Magazine. The collection contains correspondence to Kate Douglas Wiggin collected by Smith while writing her biography of Wiggin; correspondence...
Dates:
1878-2009; Majority of material found within 1889-1924
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Ola Elizabeth Winslow collection
Collection
Identifier: 0412
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes correspondence to Grace Dow and Dorothy Healy, photographs, and manuscript for John Eliot.
Dates:
1962-1977
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Perdita Huston papers
Collection
Identifier: 0180
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes files documenting Huston's professional life, beginning with her journalism work with Time/Life in Algeria until her final work on the Global Family Project in the late 1990s. Included are research notes, interview transcripts, drafts of her writing projects, correspondence from throughout her career, and material on organizations and conferences she was involved with. Also included are clippings of published articles by and about Huston which she collected....
Dates:
1936-2007
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Phyllis Schuyler Thaxter collection
Collection
Identifier: 0380
Collection Scope and Content
This collection consists of several manuscripts written by the author, a few pieces of correspondence, and some playbills and professional photos of Thaxter from her stage career, which spanned the 1920s-1940s. There is also a large collection of playbills from the 1930s-1960s, many related to her theater column “Through the Stage Door With Phyllis Schuyler Thaxter,” written for the Guy Gannett newspapers (Portland Press Herald) and covering theaters in Maine, Boston and New York, as well as...
Dates:
1890-1998
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Ramona Barth papers
Collection
Identifier: 0046
Collection Scope and Content
The items in this collection range from unpublished manuscripts, to stamp collections, to large posters. There is a small collection of VHS and cassettes, as well as transparencies with which Barth made t-shirts (including one of her own face). Overall, the collection is made up of eight distinct series. The topics are varied, but because of Barth's passion for feminism, women's liberation is a common theme that threads throughout the entire collection. As early as her college essays, Barth...
Dates:
1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1930-1990
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Ruth Moore collection
Collection
Identifier: 0252
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes manuscripts of Moore's post-1955 novels and poetry collections, as well as editor's notes, advance copies and galleys of these works. Also included are scrapbooks and loose clippings of reviews and publicity, as well as fan mail and literary correspondence. The collection includes biographical material about Moore and some memorabilia.
Dates:
1917-1995
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Sarah Orne Jewett collection
Collection
Identifier: 0196
Collection Scope and Content
The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, articles, reviews, research papers, memorabilia, photographs, printed material, artifacts, and family business records. The manuscripts include: a poem written by Jewett at age fourteen; notes found in her personal copy of the Norman Conquest; "Indians," her earliest known manuscript; and a complete manuscript copy of the "Night Before Thanksgiving." The correspondence with family, friends and business associates gives a view into Jewett's...
Dates:
1801-1997; Majority of material found within 1881-1906
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Smith family papers
Collection
Identifier: 0335
Collection Scope and Content
Of the 261 files in the Smith Family papers, the majority are the papers of three Smith women. Series one contains materials pertaining to Marion Howard Smith (the central figure in the collection, 1849-1910). Series two consists of materials related to Marion Stuart Smith and series three is devoted to papers of daughter-in-law Susan Smith, including correspondence, legal and financial documents, playbills and photographs and illustrations. Series four gathers together correspondence,...
Dates:
1878-1935; Majority of material found within 1885-1898
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Sue McConkey papers
Collection
Identifier: 0224
Collection Scope and Content
This collection contains biographical material, including family photographs, and transcripts from interviews with McConkey. Other items include published articles about the writer and her work, material associated with the Poetry Fellowship of Maine, and chapbooks containing some of her poems. Also found in the collection is correspondence from McConkey addressed to the Maine Women Writers Collection curators and to Jeffrey Lee, a poet she mentored throughout the 1970s and '80s.
Dates:
1912-2001
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Susan Nichols Pulsifer collection
Collection
Identifier: 0292
Collection Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, biographical material and articles.
Dates:
1918-1974
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Toby Shafter collection
Collection
Identifier: 0365
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes a 1938 travel diary, photograph, news clippings, notes, correspondence and manuscripts.
Dates:
1938-1967
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
Virginia Rich collection
Collection
Identifier: 0315
Collection Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, reviews, articles, promotional materials and a photograph.
Dates:
1982-1985
Found in:
Maine Women Writers Collection
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