Contents
Collection Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Women in Performing Arts newsletter
Women in American Theatre
Scripts
Miscellaneous
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Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers,
1975-1987
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Annie-Sage
Whitehurst, intern.
2009
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Creator:
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Jenkins, Linda Walsh |
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Title:
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Linda Walsh Jenkins
Papers |
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Dates:
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1975-1987 |
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Abstract:
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Professor, theater; Actor. Source material and correspondence relating to her book Women in American Theatre; also scripts, ephemera, periodicals, essays, clippings, and correspondence related to women's theatres around the world; and correspondence, printed material, and drafts for the Women in the Performing Arts newsletter.
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Extent:
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3 boxes(2.25 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English |
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Identification:
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MS 252 |
Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers donated her Papers to the Sophia Smith
Collection in 1988 and 1989.
Related materials are in the Helen Chinoy Papers in the Sophia Smith
Collection and in the Faculty Files of the Smith College Archives.
Preliminary processing done by Annie-Sage Whitehurst, Fraenkel intern, 2009.
Preferred Citation
Please use the following format when citing materials from this
collection:
Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College,
Northampton, Mass.
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the
Sophia Smith Collection.
This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be
difficult to use.
Linda Walsh Jenkin owns copyright to her unpublished writings. Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
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Linda Walsh Jenkins was a tenured professor in the Theatre department at Northwestern University at the time this collection was donated. She was co-editor of Women in the American theatre: careers, images, movements: an illustrated anthology and sourcebook with Helen Kroch Chinoy (1981) and was an active member of the women's theatre community through the 1970s and 1980s. She had a son in 1971 and raised him as a single parent in Evanston, Il. No further biographical information is available.
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The Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers include source material and correspondence relating to her book Women in American Theatre. There are also scripts, ephemera, periodicals, essays, clippings, and correspondence related to women's theatres around the world, as well as correspondence, printed material, and drafts for the newsletter, Women in the Performing Arts.
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Women in Performing Arts newsletter
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Folder
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1-3 |
Background materials: notes, drafts, correspondence, manuscripts, press releases, mailing lists, printed material, and copies of newsletters
1975-82
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4-7 |
General: correspondence, clippings, press releases, newsletters
1973-85
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8 |
Women's Studies (including Smith College): printed material, periodicals, correspondence, draft articles
1975
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9 |
"Assignment D": Correspondence, clippings and press releases
1978-81
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10 |
Suzanne Buton and Susan Stone
1975-82
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11 |
Joanne Hamlin (script)
1975
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Women in American Theatre
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Folder
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13-17 |
Correspondence, contracts, and contacts list (includes Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection, Helen Chinoy, and Chinoy's Rally Day speech, Smith College 1983)
1974-86
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18 |
Correspondence, printed materials, clippings, and transcripts of interviews with Judith Malina, Peggy Shaw, and "R.B."'s interview with Lois Weaver
1984-87
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19 |
General: correspondence and printed materials
1986
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Box
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Folder
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1-5 |
General: source materials, correspondence, speeches, essays, drafts, mailings from theatres (includes Deborah Lubar scripts, transcript of Lillian Hellman and Bill Moyers interview
1971-88
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6-10 |
Mailing lists, contacts, correspondence, returned mail, and printed materials
1971-88
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Scripts
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Folder
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11 |
"Finalists, top 5" (with correspondence from One Act Theatre and scripts by O-Lan Shepard, Denize Springer, Irene Oppenheim, Grace McKeaney, Susan Narus
1977-81, n.d.
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12-13 |
"One Act Plays, numbers 1-16 (Susan Kennedy, Kitty Tsui, Tobey Chappell, Toni Press, Sylvia Bigelow, Annawin Shamas, June Griffin, Kathleen Magill, Theresa Mayer Hammond, Susan E. Spoth, Janice Penkalski
1979-81, n.d.
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14 |
Marijane Datsun: "Last Acts," press releases and clippings
n.d.
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Martha Boesing: 2 scripts
1974
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Miscellaneous
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Folder
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"Old Wives Tale": script by Linda Jenkins, with correspondence with Lilith, a Woman's Theatre
1984-85
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"Rated X" (film): correspondence, abstract, and endorsements
1984
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Nancy Rhodes: correspondence and copy of "A Study on Employment Discrimination Against Women Playwrights and Directors in Non Profit Theatre"
1976
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Christine Westwood (Women's theatre in Australia): correspondence, press releases and ephemera
1977-78
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19-24 |
Correspondence, mailings, press releases, biographies, posters, photographs, playbills, and other printed material from theatre groups (includes Washington American Feminist Theatre, Chicago Theatre Group Inc., American Theatre Association, At The Foot of the Mountain, Plutonium Players, Women's Collage Theatre, Women's International Theatre Alliance, Lilith, a Woman's Theatre, Theatre Rhinocerous)
1976-89
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Folder
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1-6 |
Correspondence, mailings, press releases, biographies, posters, photographs, playbills, and other printed material from theatre groups
1976-89
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Dance: printed material
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Miscellaneous clippings
1977-80
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