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Dorothy Bryant papers, approximately 1950-2015.
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Title:

Dorothy Bryant papers, approximately 1950-2015

Creator/Contributor:

Bryant, Dorothy, 1930-2017, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Dorothy Bryant papers comprises correspondence, including correspondence with Kay Boyle, Ursula LeGuin, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Tillie Olsen, May Sarton, and Richard C. Zimler; professional files regarding her publishing company, Ata Books; personalia; research notes, essays, articles, short stories, poems and reviews written by Bryant. Includes program notes written for Aurora Theater Company productions and scripts, reviews, program notes and correspondence related to the following plays: Dear Master, The Panel, Posing for Gaugin, Sad But Glorious Days, Tea with Mrs. Hardy, Trial of Cornelia Connelly, Unloved Letters, Decay of Lying, and Eros in Love, Mothers, Lucie's Station, and The Plague. Scripts and programs for the plays Ring Around Rosie, Say Hay, and Hullabaloo; Bryant wrote the music for these high school plays as Dorothy Ungaretti. Also includes research, correspondence, reviews and production files for books: The Berkeley Pit, Confessions of Madame Psyche, A Day in San Francisco, Ella Price's Journal, Garden of Eros, Killing Wonder, Kin of Ata/The Comforter, Miss Giardino, Myths to Lie By, Prisoners, The Test, Writing a Novel, and Anita Anita.

Date:

1950 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Feminism and literature
Literature -- Women authors
Feminist fiction, American
Feminist drama, American
Women publishers
Dorothy Bryant -- Archives

Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Gift of Lorri Ungaretti; 2020.
Dorothy Bryant papers, BANC MSS 2023/245, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English and Italian.

Type:

Videocassettes.
Plays-California-20th century.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Audiocassettes.

Physical Description:

print
15 (12

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.