Linda Walsh Jenkins
Papers, 1975-1987
3 boxes (2.25 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 252
Terms of Access and Use:
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Linda Walsh Jenkin owns copyright to her unpublished writings.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.
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.
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.
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Linda Walsh Jenkin owns copyright to her unpublished writings.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.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers donated her Papers to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1988 and 1989.
Preliminary processing done by Annie-Sage Whitehurst, Fraenkel intern, 2009.
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Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063 Phone: (413) 585-2970 Fax: (413) 585-2886 Email Reference Form: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/emailform.html URL: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/ |
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Women in Performing Arts newsletter
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Background materials: notes, drafts, correspondence, manuscripts, press releases, mailing lists, printed material, and copies of newsletters
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1975-82
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Box 1: folder 1-3
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General: correspondence, clippings, press releases, newsletters
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1973-85
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Box 1: folder 4-7
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Women's Studies (including Smith College): printed material, periodicals, correspondence, draft articles
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1975
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Box 1: folder 8
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"Assignment D": Correspondence, clippings and press releases
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1978-81
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Box 1: folder 9
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Suzanne Buton and Susan Stone
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1975-82
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Box 1: folder 10
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Joanne Hamlin (script)
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1975
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Box 1: folder 11
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Miscellaneous
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Box 1: folder 12
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Women in American Theatre
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Correspondence, contracts, and contacts list (includes Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection, Helen Chinoy, and Chinoy's Rally Day speech, Smith College 1983)
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1974-86
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Box 1: folder 13-17
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Correspondence, printed materials, clippings, and transcripts of interviews with Judith Malina, Peggy Shaw, and "R.B."'s interview with Lois Weaver
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1984-87
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Box 1: folder 18
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General: correspondence and printed materials
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1986
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Box 1: folder 19
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General: source materials, correspondence, speeches, essays, drafts, mailings from theatres (includes Deborah Lubar scripts, transcript of Lillian Hellman and Bill Moyers interview
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1971-88
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Box 2: folder 1-5
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Mailing lists, contacts, correspondence, returned mail, and printed materials
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1971-88
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Box 2: folder 6-10
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Scripts
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"Finalists, top 5" (with correspondence from One Act Theatre and scripts by O-Lan Shepard, Denize Springer, Irene Oppenheim, Grace McKeaney, Susan Narus
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1977-81, n.d.
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Box 2: folder 11
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"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
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1979-81, n.d.
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Box 2: folder 12-13
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Marijane Datsun: "Last Acts," press releases and clippings
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 14
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Martha Boesing: 2 scripts
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1974
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Box 2: folder 15
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Miscellaneous
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"Old Wives Tale": script by Linda Jenkins, with correspondence with Lilith, a Woman's Theatre
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1984-85
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Box 2: folder 16
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"Rated X" (film): correspondence, abstract, and endorsements
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1984
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Box 2: folder 17
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Nancy Rhodes: correspondence and copy of "A Study on Employment Discrimination Against Women Playwrights and Directors in Non Profit Theatre"
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1976
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Box 2: folder 17
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Christine Westwood (Women's theatre in Australia): correspondence, press releases and ephemera
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1977-78
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Box 2: folder 18
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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)
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1976-89
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Box 2: folder 19-24
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Correspondence, mailings, press releases, biographies, posters, photographs, playbills, and other printed material from theatre groups
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1976-89
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Box 3: folder 1-6
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Dance: printed material
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Box 3: folder 7
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Miscellaneous clippings
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1977-80
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Box 3: folder 8
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