Finding Aid for the Panthea Reid/Ellen Douglas Collection
MUM00386
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PURL
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00386/
Summary Information
- Repository
- University of Mississippi Libraries
- Creator
- Reid, Panthea
- Title
- Panthea Reid/Ellen Douglas Collection
- ID
- MUM00386
- Date
- 1983-2000
- Extent
- 1.0 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Abstract
- Collection contain correspondence and miscellaneous documents related to the life and work of author Ellen Douglas. Items were created 1983-2000.
Preferred Citation
Panthea Reid/Ellen Douglas Collection (MUM00386), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
Biographical Note
Ellen Douglas
Ellen Douglas (the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton) was born in 1921 in Natchez, Miss. Douglas grew up in small towns throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1942. She has authored eleven books, including novels, short-story volumes, and nonfiction. Douglas has served as writer-in-residence at Northeast Louisiana University, Tulane University, and the University of Mississippi, and has taught at various other institutions, including the University of Virginia and Millsaps College. Douglas died 7 November 2012.
Panthea Reid
Author and academic Panthea Reid is the editor of Conversations with Ellen Douglas. Reid was born in Kentucky and moved to Alabama as a child. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at Virginia Tech and Louisiana State University, where she currently serves as Professor Emerita of English. Reid is the author of various books, including Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles.
Scope and Content
Collection contain correspondence and miscellaneous documents related to the life of author Ellen Douglas. Some materials originated in the production of the book Conversations With Ellen Douglas, edited by Panthea Reid. Some materials are related to the book Southern Women Writers: The New Generation. Items were created 1983-2000.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
University of Mississippi Libraries 2005, February 2013
Access Restrictions
The Panthea Reid/Ellen Douglas Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Original finding aid created by Chatham Ewing, 2005. Finding aid revised and converted to EAD by Kathryn Michaelis, February 2013.
Related Materials
Related Materials at the University of Mississippi
Ellen Douglas Collection (MUM00109)
Ellen Douglas Small Manuscripts (MUM00110)
For more collections related to Mississippi authors, please see the Archives' Literary Collections subject guide.
Separated Materials
Some digital material from this collection can be accessed online from J.D. Williams Library computers.
Controlled Access Headings
Personal Name(s)
- Douglas, Ellen, 1921-2012
Subject(s)
- Authors -- Mississippi
- Literature -- Southern States
- Women authors, American
Collection Inventory
Conversations With Ellen Douglas |
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1.1 Annotated Copies of Interviews with Ellen Douglas used for Conversations With Ellen Douglas (University of Mississippi Press, 2000) |
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1.2 Annotated Copies of Interviews with Ellen Douglas used for Conversations With Ellen Douglas (University of Mississippi Press, 2000) |
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1.3 Annotated Copies of Interviews with Ellen Douglas used for Conversations With Ellen Douglas (University of Mississippi Press, 2000) |
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1.4 General Correspondence and Notes Relating to Conversations With Ellen Douglas |
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1.5 Various Drafts of Panthea Reid's Chronology of the Life of Ellen Douglas. Annotations by Douglas |
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1.6 Summer 1999 Correspondence Between Panthea Reid and CBS Scope and ContentRe: 1964 Interview with Ellen Douglas |
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1.7 Correspondence Between Ellen Douglas and Panthea Reid. Undated through 1999 Scope and ContentRe: Publications, Conversations With Ellen Douglas, CBS Interview, Reid's Virginia Quarterly Review Article, and Southern Women Writers: The New Generation |
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1.8 Reviews of Truth: Four Stories I am Finally Old Enough to Tell |
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1.9 Correspondence Relating to and Galleys of Panthea Reid's review essay of Truth: Four Stories I am Finally Old Enough to Tell for the Virginia Quarterly Review |
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1.10 Photocopies of various articles written by Ellen Douglas |
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Southern Women Writers: The New Generation |
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1.11 Miscellaneous materials concerning the research, publishing, and editing of Southern Women Writers |
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1.12 Annotated Galley and Final Copy of Reid's Review of A Lifetime Burning for the Times Literary Supplement, 22 July 1983. |
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1.13 Photocopies of book reviews of A Lifetime Burning. |
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1.14 Photocopies of book reviews of The Rock Cried Out. |
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1.15 Articles About Ellen Douglas and her Work |
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Miscellaneous Material |
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1.16 Correspondence, Pamphlets, and News Releases Related to the April 17, 1999 Program "Compassion and Understanding: The Life And Work of Ellen Douglas." |
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1.17 National Medal of Arts Nomination. |
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1.18 Willie Morris Funeral Program Photocopy. |
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Audio and Digital Material |
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CD, cassettes of Interviews, and 1 computer disk related to Conversations With Ellen Douglas. Material from the computer disk can be accessed online from J.D. Williams Library computers. |
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