Finding Aid for the Ellen Bass Papers LSC.2227
Finding aid prepared by Processed by Stacy Wood, 2014. Updated by Sabrina Ponce, 2018.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 21 February 2018.
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Title: Ellen Bass papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2227
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1990-2002
Abstract: Ellen Bass is an American poet as well as co-author of the groundbreaking book,
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. This collection contains an interview transcript from 2002 with Ellen Bass and co-author Laura Davis addressing the publication
of the book and Bass's activist work in Santa Cruz, California. Also included are Betacam tapes created to accompany
The Courage to Heal, none of which were ultimately used.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button
located on this page.
Creator:
Bass, Ellen
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections material must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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[Identification of item], Ellen Bass Papers (Collection 2227). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
June Mazer Lesbian Archives, transfer, 2012. Original provenance unknown.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the
UCLA Library .
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2014. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2018.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7566316
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
Ellen Bass was born in 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an American poet as well as co-author of the groundbreaking
book,
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Bass grew up in Margate City, New Jersey. She attended Goucher College, receiving her bachelor's degree in 1968. She then
earned her master's degree from Boston University, where she studied with poet Anne Sexton. From 1970-1974, Bass worked as
an administrator at Project Place, a social service center in Boston. She is currently teaching in the Masters of Fine Arts
program at Pacific University in Oregon and has been teaching workshops on "Writing About Our Lives" in Santa Cruz, California
since 1974. Her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals, anthologies, and magazines including
Ploughshares,
The American Poetry Review, and
The Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction books, including
The Courage to Heal have sold over a million copies and have been translated into twelve languages. She has won several awards including a Pushcart
Prize, The Missouri Review's Larry Levis Award, the Greensboro Poetry Prize and the Elliston Book Award for Poetry.
This collection contains an interview transcript from 2002 with Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, authors of
The Courage to Heal, addressing the publication of the book and Bass's activist work in Santa Cruz, California. Also included are Betacam tapes
created to accompany
The Courage to Heal, none of which were ultimately used.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
COLLECTION CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this collection will require assessment and possible digitization
for safe access. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Materials arranged by type.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bass, Ellen -- Archives.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Lesbian activists--Archives.
Box 1
Audiovisual materials 1990
Includes three Betacam tapes that were created to accompany Bass and Davis' work,
The Courage to Heal, but were not subsequently used.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
COLLECTION CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this collection will require assessment and possible digitization
for safe access. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.