Catherine Nicholson papers, 1897-2005 and undated, bulk 1974-2005.

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Catherine Nicholson papers, 1897-2005 and undated, bulk 1974-2005.

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Collection primarily documents Nicholson's directing and theater related activities, her work on SINISTER WISDOM, and her membership in the group Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC). The collection comprises correspondence with family and friends; personal and professional writings; poetry; notes; clippings; photographic materials, including black and white and color photographs, color slides, and a cabinet card; audio cassettes; vinyl records; press kits and playbills; reviews about theater and of plays directed by Nicholson; and ephemera. Included are play scripts written by Catherine Nicholson and other playwrights, and scripts with directorial annotations by Nicholson. The collection contains correspondence, artwork, journals, and receipts related to the publishing of SINISTER WISDOM. In addition, the collection houses Nicholson's collection of audiocassettes and long-playing vinyl records, with the majority of albums related to women's music; many of these were published by Olivia Records. Printed materials have been removed and added to the Women and LGBT Rights Periodicals Collection. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. Addition (2010-0068) (28 items, .1 lin. ft.; dated 1984-1985 and undated) comprises letters and cards addressed to Harriet Ellenberger, primarily from Susan Thompson.

10,528 items (15.2 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7324393

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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Desmoines, Harriet.

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Old Lesbians Organizing for Change

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The book Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich (1983), which exposed the harsh realities of ageism on old women, was the inspiration for the founding of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. In April 1987, the First West Coast Conference by and for Old Lesbians in Southern California was held at the California State University Dominguez Campus in Carson, California. It was so successful that in August 1989, Old Lesbians in Northern Calif...

Nicholson, Catherine.

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Lesbian feminist writer and magazine publisher, resident of Durham (Durham Co.), N.C. Nicholson is best known as the co-founder of the lesbian feminist literary journal SINISTER WISOM. From 1976 to 1981, Catherine Nicholson and partner Harriet Ellenberger (also known as Harriet Desmoines) published and edited the journal, before passing control to Adrienne Rich and Michelle Cliff. From the description of Catherine Nicholson papers, 1897-2005 and undated, bulk 1974-2005. (Duke Univers...

Olivia Records, Inc.

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Thompson, Susanne

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