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Anne R. Witten collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0392
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes articles, correspondence, and performance publicity.

Dates: 1972-1992

Audrey White Beyer papers

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Identifier: 0021
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes typescripts of Beyer's early poetry and prize-winning articles, as well as of her four young adult novels, published from 1959-1968. Page proofs, dummies, advertisements, reviews, and correspondence with publishers and readers are included. A small amount of biographical material is included, as well as several photographs of Beyer and a pencil portrait.

Dates: 1935-1985

Charlotte Perkins Gilman collection

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Identifier: 0147
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, trade cards designed by Gilman and articles.

Dates: 1880-2001

Dahlov Ipcar papers

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Identifier: 0183
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes drafts and publication material relating to Ipcar's 1990 collection of fantasy short stories, The Nightmare and Her Foal. Also in the collection are articles and essays by and about the author (including a draft of her autobiography for the Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography), art exhibit catalogs, and notecards designed and signed by Ipcar. There are also several original works of art by Ipcar.

Dates: 1966-2005

Denise Levertov collection

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Identifier: 0205
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, interviews, and articles.

Dates: 1964-1986

Diane Fitzpatrick collection

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Identifier: 0447
Collection Scope and Content

This collection consists of materials related to the presentation of Fitzpatricks' play, including promotional postcards, programs, and three copies of the DVD recording of the performance.

Dates: 2009

Dorothy Clarke Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0394
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of two series. Series 1 contains articles about and interviews with Wilson, typescripts of some of the author's writings and one of her poems, her autobiography (74 pages), and copies of her writings published in pamphlets and periodicals. In addition there is a large collection of personal scrapbooks documenting her published works from 1933 to 1949, as well as a scrapbook chronicling a trip to India in 1950. Series 2 consists of a number of decorative objects and...
Dates: 1926-1990s

Eleanor Noyes Johnson papers

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Identifier: 0424
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains hand-written drafts and typescripts of Johnson's young adult novel, King Alfred II, as well as Armitage Hall. Also included is literary correspondence from 1957-1962, some publicity material, book reviews, and published short articles and stories.

Dates: 1932-1993

Frances Peabody papers

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Identifier: 0276
Collection Scope and Content Series 1 consists of the files set up by Peabody as she worked her way through the process of writing and publishing Tate House: Crown of the Maine Mast Trade. The files document the steps necessary to see a project through, ie., multiple drafts, publicizing, printers, funding, and reviews by peers. Peabody's original file titles and order were retained as much as possible. Series 2 contains multiple black and white images in publication layout telling the story of the merger between...
Dates: 1920-1997; Majority of material found in 1930-1940

Gary W. Woolson collection

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Identifier: 0400
Collection Scope and Content Correspondence between Gary W. Woolson, a Bangor, Maine, used book seller, and various Maine women authors and others, including Marie Donahue, Rose Ricker, Pat Lewis and MWWC curator Dorothy Healy. Many of the items he bought and sold were to do with Maine history. Also included are publication announcements of Maine titles, an inventory of books from the library of Harriet Prescott Spofford (1974) and a chapbook published by Woolson entitled "Bangor in 1835--A Letter written by Olive...
Dates: circa 1948-2010

Harriet Beecher Stowe collection

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Identifier: 0336
Collection Scope and Content

The collection of approximately a dozen files includes ephemera and one piece of correspondence related to Uncle Tom's Cabin, one tract by Stowe, 20th century published scholarship about her literary and personal life, two undated stereoscopic views possibly at her Florida residence and an undated photograph of the author. Also an extensive collection of her works published in magazines and newspapers.

Dates: 1880-1999

Julie Zimmerman collection

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Identifier: 0423
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains articles and publicity.

Dates: 1992-1995

Kate Douglas Wiggin collection

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Identifier: 0403
Collection Scope and Content

The collection includes photographs, flyers and playbills for her work, reviews, ephemera, published work and original correspondence, as well as a series devoted to the California Kindergarten Training School and the Froebel Society. Some of the items are photocopies, which were gathered by Glenys Tarlow from other libraries in her research on Wiggin. The majority of the collection was compiled by Tarlow during her years of research.

Dates: 1880-2006, undated

Louise Dickinson Rich collection

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Identifier: 0304
Collection Scope and Content

Includes a yearbook, articles, obituary and short story.

Dates: 1932-2009

Maine Association of Women in the Fine and Performing Arts records

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Identifier: 0434
Collection Scope and Content The Maine Association of Women in the Fine and Performing Arts (MAWFPA) records contain the papers and visual materials of this female-driven, artist-run organization active in the state from 1977 through 1983. The MAWFPA records are arranged into four series documenting the activities of the organization with majority focusing on Spectra 1 and Spectra 2, the two all-female multi-disciplinary arts celebrations produced by the organization in 1979 and 1982. The bulk of the material in this...
Dates: 1977-1983, undated

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat collection

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Identifier: 0355
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence with Dorothy Healy, promotional materials, Westbrook College Alumni News, clippings and Tower Award speech.

Dates: 1967-1985

Mary Beth Owens collection

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Identifier: 0268
Collection Scope and Content

Includes letter to Dorothy Healy, article and publicity.

Dates: 1988

May Sarton papers

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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

Mihku Paul collection

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Identifier: 0441
Collection Scope and Content

This collection consists of one postcard for Paul's exhibit "Many Hands: Wabanaki Paths of Learning" and posters for the reception for Paul's exhibition "Look Twice: The Waponahki in Image and Verse"

Dates: 2010-2014

Nicole Chaison collection

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Identifier: 0437
Collection Scope and Content

This collection consists of one promotional postcard for a performance by Chaison and others entitled "The Passion of the Hausfrau: An Illuminated Solo Comedy," held at Freeport Factory Stage.

Dates: 2011

Nora Archibald Smith papers

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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

Rae N. Simmonds collection

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Identifier: 0360
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains promotional materials, scripts, sheet music, a thesis, and poetry.

Dates: 1979-1998

Ramona Barth papers

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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

Rebecca Hourwich Reyher collection

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Identifier: 0314
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence (1976-1987), articles, photographs, speeches and Reyher's obituary. The letters are mostly concerned with the donation of the Sinon-Reyher Collection to Westbrook College and the Maine Women Writers Collection. There is documentation of the collection, including photographs of artifacts and information on the first exhibition of the collection in 1977. There is some biographical and suffrage information. The Maine Women Writers Collection also houses a...
Dates: 1960-1987

Rosamond Thaxter collection

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Identifier: 0382
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes an obituary and articles.

Dates: 1962-1989

Ruth Sexton Sargent collection

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Identifier: 0361
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence with MWWC, publicity materials, and articles.

Dates: 1937-1995

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

Virginia Rich collection

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Identifier: 0315
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, reviews, articles, promotional materials and a photograph.

Dates: 1982-1985