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American Literary Studies
Fanny Howe Papers
The Papers
Stanford has a number of special collections that contain original manuscripts,
correspondence, family papers, and other archival materials related to
Fanny Howe.
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Call Numbers of Collections: M0648, M0768, M0848
Size: 12.5 linear ft
Finding Guides: Details are listed below with the specific collections.
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special
Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections'
Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open
10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and
microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more
information about the collections and access policies, please contact
Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail
at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of Fanny Howe (1940- )
American novelist, short story writer, and poet, Howe was born in Buffalo,
New York in 1940, the daughter of playwright and actress Mary Manning
and law professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, and sister of the poet Susan Howe.
Graduating from Stanford in 1962, she was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in
1965 and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1970 after
the publication of her first book of short stories, Forty Whacks
(1969). She has taught creative writing on the faculty of a number of
institutions, including Tufts University, Emerson College, Columbia University,
and MIT. Howe is convert to the Roman Catholic Church and is known for
her politically and religiously infused writing about the difficult course
of women, families, and the spirit in contemporary America. Author of
nearly twenty volumes of poetry and fiction as well as numerous books
for young adults, her published work includes the fictions Holy Smoke
(1984), The Deep North (1988), and Saving History (1993),
and the poetry of Eggs (1970), Introduction to the World
(1986), The End (1992), and O'Clock (1995). Fanny Howe
currently teaches literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Highlights and Research Potential of the Papers:
The Fanny Howe Papers are cataloged in three different but closely complementary
collections and include literary manuscripts, personal notebooks, correspondence,
and extensive family papers, including letters and manuscripts from her
parents' generation. Notebooks and working papers for the fictions Bronte
Wilde (1976), White Slave (1980), Famous Questions
(1989), and Saving History (1993) are present along with manuscripts
for much of the poetry. Personal correspondence includes large files of
letters from such fellow avant-garde writers as Clark Coolidge, Kathleen
Fraser, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, and Leslie Scalapino.
The Papers
Fanny Howe Papers, 1924-1993
Size: 8.5 linear ft.
Call Number: M0648
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading room
of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of this
finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer
version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version on the
Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the Online
Archives of California server.
Content: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, diaries, journals,
and notebooks. Includes family correspondence as well as early school
records.
Fanny Howe Papers, 1980-1990
Size: 2 linear ft.
Call Number: M0768
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading room
of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of this
finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer
version 6.0 or higher, click here to
connect to the XML version on the Stanford server; if not, click here for
the html version on the Online Archives of California server.
Content: Correspondence, family history, literary manuscripts.
Fanny Howe Papers, 1981-1995
Size: 2.5 linear ft.
Call Number: M0848
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading room
of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of this
finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer
version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version on the
Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the Online
Archives of California server.
Content: Manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence, the last
including letters from Samuel Beckett, William Corbett, Mark Mirsky, and
Alice Walker (one of Walker's containing reference to Tillie Olsen).
Related Manuscript Collections at Stanford
Rae Armantrout Papers, M1211
Robert Creeley Papers, M0662
Stephen Rodefer Papers, M0693
Last modified:
May 31, 2011
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