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Elaine Showalter papers (MS.2020.007)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Personal and Biographical, 1970 - 2006

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Articles about Showalter
 1970 - 2006
Box 1, Folder 2 Curriculum vitae
 circa 2005
Box 1, Item 1 Dissertation: The Double Standard: Women Writers in England, 1845-1880
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 3 Mailing list: National Organization of Women, Central New Jersey chapter
 August 1970
Box 1, Folder 4 Photos of Showalter, black and white
 1984, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 5 Photos of Showalter, color
 circa 2000
Box 1, Folder 6 Photos of Showalter, negatives
 n.d.

Series 2. Correspondence, 1967 - 2012

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 7 Correspondence, 1967, 1988, re: professional appointments
 1967, 1988
Box 1, Folder 8 Correspondence, 1973-1997
 1973 - 1997
Box 1, Folder 9 Correspondence, 1976-1980, from the Feminist Press
 1976 - 1980
Box 1, Folder 10 Correspondence, 1998, re: donation of "working papers on radical feminism" to The Fawcett Library at London Guildhall University
 1998
Box 1, Folder 11 Correspondence, 2000-2009
 2000 - 2009
Box 1, Folder 12 Correspondence, 2001-2002, with Gloria Vanderbilt
 2001 - 2002
Box 1, Folder 13 Correspondence, 2002-2008, re: visiting professorship at Roehampton University; includes handwritten notes and commencement booklet
 2002 - 2008
Box 1, Folder 14 Correspondence, 2004, 2007, re: Diane Middlebrook's memorial service; includes clipping and photo
 2004, 2007
Box 1, Folder 15 Correspondence, 2006-2007, re: The Man Booker International Prize
 2006 - 2007
Box 1, Folder 16 Correspondence, 2010-2011
 2010 - 2011
Box 1, Folder 17 Correspondence, 2010-2012, re: honorary degree conferred by University of Saint Andrews
 2010 - 2012
Box 1, Folder 18 Correspondence, 2011, re: The Royal Society of Literature; includes review booklet
 2011
Box 1, Folder 19 Correspondence, 2012, re: The Colony Club
 2012
Box 1, Folder 20 Correspondence, n.d.
 n.d.

Series 3. Writings and Related, 1970 - 2017

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 Article: "Books and Issues: Young Girls, Popular Culture:" offprint
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 2 Article: "Lumps, Bumps… Wrinkles and Holes:" bound copy in Tate Etc.
 2007
Box 2, Folder 3 Article: "Mrs. Klein: The Mother, the Daughter, the Thief, and their Critics:" proof, offprint, and correspondence
 1986 - 1990
Box 2, Folder 4 Article: "R. D. Laing and the sixties:" offprint
 1981
Box 2, Folder 5 Article: "Teaching in Public: A Modest Proposal:" proof
 2001
Box 2, Folder 6 Article: untitled in "Household words - the Complicated Legacy of Dickens:" contract
 2005
Box 2, Folder 7 Book: Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture: correspondence re: edits and publication
 1991 - 1996
Box 2, Folder 8 Book: A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx; includes correspondence and reviews
 2006 - 2009
Box 2, Folder 9 Book: A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx: reviews
 2009
Box 2, Folder 10 Book: A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing: contract and lecture pamphlet
 1975
Box 2, Folder 11 Book: Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle: flyer
 circa 1990
Box 2, Folder 12 Book: Women's Liberation and Literature: contract
 1970
Box 2, Folder 13 Chapter: untitled in "Fifty Shades of Feminism" ed. Lisa Appighan: contract and correspondence
 2012
Box 2, Folder 14 Foreward: Better Things to Do: offprint
 2000
Box 2, Folder 15 Introduction: The Millstone by Margret Drabble: proof
 2009
Box 2, Folder 16 Magazine articles: various titles: clippings, 1986, 1996-1999
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews and television criticism
 1986, 1996-1999
Box 2, Folder 17 Magazine articles: various titles: clippings, 2000-2003
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews and television and film criticism
 2000 - 2003
Box 2, Folder 18 Magazine articles: various titles: contracts and related correspondence
 2012 - 2013
Box 2, Folder 19 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 1984, 1986-1989
Contents Note: Topics primarily include book reviews
 1984, 1986-1989
Box 2, Folder 20 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 1990-1995
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews, play criticism, and female sexuality
 1990 - 1995
Box 2, Folder 21 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 1996-1997
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews, television criticism, and psychoanalysis
 1996 - 1997
Box 2, Folder 22 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 1998-1999
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews, feminism, and research on women
 1998 - 1999
Box 2, Folder 23 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 2000-2002
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews, television criticism, and terrorism
 2000 - 2002
Box 2, Folder 24 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 2003-2005
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews and gender and cultural theory
 2003 - 2005
Box 3, Folder 1 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews, children's literature, and anxiety
 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017
Box 3, Folder 2 Newspaper articles: various titles: clippings, n.d.
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews and film criticism
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 3 Newspaper articles: various titles: typed drafts, n.d.
Contents Note: Topics include book reviews and television criticism
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 4 Presidential address: "Regeneration;" includes bound copy in PMLA and event invitations
 1997 - 1999
Box 3, Folder 5 Review: Feminism and its Discontents by Mary Jo Buhle: contract
 1998
Box 3, Folder 6 Review: Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars by Jenny Hazelgrove: offprint
 2002

Series 4. Research, 1969 - 2010

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 7 Articles re: various topics including feminism and women's liberation
 2003
Box 3, Folder 8 Clippings re: various topics including book reviews and women's studies
 2002 - 2010
Box 3, Folder 9 Clippings re: "women in management"
 1998
Box 3, Folder 10 Flyer: "abortion counseling information"
 November 1969
Box 3, Folder 11 Handwritten notes re: "Alison Lurie: A Critical Study"
 circa 2000

Series 5. Print Material, 1970 - 1999

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 12 Booklet: "Female Studies no. 2" by Florence Howe
 circa 1970
Box 3, Folder 13 Booklet: "Female Studies, volume 1, Closer to the Ground: women's classes, criticism, programs" ed. Nancy Hoffman, Cynthia Secor, and Adrian Tinsley
 1972
Box 3, Folder 14 Booklet: "Slate on Paper: George W. spins the draft question, in praise of bloated software, affirmative action and racial profiling, and South Park: Duck Soup for the '90s"
 July 1999
Box 3, Folder 15 Magazine: "Princeton Alumni Weekly;" includes article re: English Showalterand article by Elaine Showalter
 February 3, 17, 1970

Series 6. Electronic Records, n.d.

Container Description Date
Box 3, Item 1 VHS tape: "Elaine Showalter - Crossfire"
 n.d.
Box 3, Item 2 VHS tape: "Jasna presents - Elaine Showalter on Retrenchments"
 n.d.