Dr. Virginia R. Terris Research Collection 1902-1982

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Dr. Virginia R. Terris Research Collection 1902-1982

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This collection consists of materials collected by Dr. Virginia R. Terris in the course of her research on early 20th century Butte author Mary MacLane, and includes correspondence (1906-1925), newspaper clippings (1902-1982), printed material (1902-1980), and subject files (1982). Mary MacLane wrote her controversial "The Story of Mary MacLane" in 1902. Living in Butte, Montana at the time, Ms. MacLane scandalized many with her open discussions of sex.

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Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives

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MacLane, Mary, 1881-1929

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Terris, Virginia R.

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Virginia R. Terris was born in Brooklyn NY in 1917 and grew up in rural Chester NJ. She received her BA in English from the NJ College for Women (now Douglass College, part of Rutgers University) in 1938. After marrying, and while raising four children, she obtained a Master’s degree in English and American literature in 1965 from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, and a PhD from New York University in New York City, New York in 1973, both on the life and poetry of Emily D...