Margaret Hollingsworth fonds. [1964-1993].

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Margaret Hollingsworth fonds. [1964-1993].

The fonds consists of her literary works, including manuscripts, drafts, and notes of stage plays, radio plays, short stories, film scripts, and unpublished novels; her research files; reviews of her literary and theatrical works; her business files, consisting mostly of correspondence; her personal affairs files, consisting mostly of correspondence with family, colleagues, friends, and other writers including Diana Hartog, Elisabeth Hopkins, Noel Hudson, Alison Lawrence, David McFadden, Jane Rule, Jean Rysstad, Libby Scheier, Cathy Smith, and David Watmough.

4.3 m of textual records.

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Hudson, Noel, 1956-....

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Rule, Jane

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British Columbia author Jane Rule was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1931. She received her B.A. from Mills College, Oakland in 1952 and attended University College in London, 1952/53 as an "occasional student". In 1954 Rule taught at the Concord Academy in Massachusetts. Rule first came to Vancouver in 1956, where after writing for two years she became the first assistant director of UBC's newly-established International House in its first year of operation (1958/59). Thereafter she taught p...

Rysstad, Jean, 1949-

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McFadden, David, 1940-....

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Smith, Cathy, 1947-

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Lawrence, Alison, 1959-

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Hopkins, Elizabeth Barbour

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Hartog, Diana

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Watmough, David, 1926-

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David Arthur Watmough was born August 17, 1926 in Leyton, Essex, near London, England. For half a century Watmough was engaged in writing not only as an author and activist, but additionally as a correspondent with many literary figures, notably W. H. Auden, Margaret Laurence, Timothy Findley, Maria Tippett, and Jane Rule, as well as visual artists John Koerner and Gordon Smith, among others. From the description of David Watmough fonds. 1941-1997. (University of British Columbia Lib...

Scheier, Libby

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Hollingsworth, Margaret

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Margaret Hollingsworth was born in London, England and trained as a librarian at Loughborough College. She is a principally known as a playwright and a short story writer. Many of her works have been published, or produced in theatres and on CBC Radio. After emigrating to Canada from England in 1968 and settling at Thunder Bay, she spent 4 years as the Chief Librarian at the city's public library. She received a B.A. from Lakehead in 1971 and moved to Vancouver in 1972, receiving an M.F.A. from ...