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Sandra Birdsell fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Reference:

R11706-0-9-E, LMS-0243

Type of material:

Textual material, Art, Photographs, Sound recordings, Maps and cartographic material, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3671325

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Sandra Birdsell fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

4.5 m of textual records and other material.

Language of material:

English

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Dealing with the period of 1959 to 2001, the fonds contains the manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence and related material of novelist and short-story writer Sandra Birdsell. This comprehensive fonds contains manuscript, draft and final versions of Birdsell's novels ("The Missing Child", "Chrome Suite", "The Russländer") and books of short stories ("Night Travellers", "Ladies of the House", "The Two-Headed Calf"), and includes numerous drafts of an early, unpublished novel ("Bobbie/A Mouse in a Glass Jar"). Also included are poems, speeches, essays, scripts for radio, television and film and other miscellaneous writings, photographs, artwork, audio recordings, a map, an apron, correspondence and printed ephemera relating to her career and teaching. The fonds also contains a large amount of correspondence with other writers: among them Eric McCormack, Alistair MacLeod, Andreas Schroeder, Glen Sorestad, Jane Urquhart and Alice Munro. The fonds contains the following series: Series 1. Working notebooks; Series 2. Manuscripts of early work; Series 3. Short fiction manuscripts; Series 4. Novel manuscripts; Series 5. Scripts; Series 6. Manuscripts of poetry, lyrics and non-fiction prose writing, Series 7. Manuscripts of children's books, Series 8. Correspondence; Series 9. Teaching, touring and professional activities documents and ephemera; Series 10. Education as a writer; Series 11. Research trip ephemera; and Series 12. Personal memorabilia and daybooks.

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Birdsell, Sandra, 1942-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Birdsell, Sandra, 1942- : Sandra Birdsell (née Sandra Louise Bartlette) was born in Hamiota, Manitoba in 1942: the fifth of ten children. She began writing stories in the mid-1970s and published her first collection of stories "Night Travellers" in 1982. Birdsell studied writing with Jack Hodgins at the Saskatchewan Summer School for the Arts (1982) and took a writing workshop with Rudy Wiebe at the University of Winnipeg (ca. 1978-1979) and a creative writing course with Robert Kroetch at the University of Manitoba. Birdsell became known first as a short story writer: producing two collections of short stories "Night Travellers" (1982) and "Ladies of the House" (1984): these linked works (since published in a collected edition) take place in the fictional prairie town Agassiz. Birdsell went on to produce three novels, "The Missing Child", "The Chrome Suite" and "The Russländer", and another collection of short stories, "The Two-Headed Calf". Birdsell has also written a book for children "The Town that Floated Away" and written dramatizations for radio, stage plays, film scripts, and television.

Birdsell is known for writing about the lives and problems of rural women: she brings a dark sense of realism to her writing and confronts the problems of women's lives unflinchingly. The fact that Birdsell was born and raised in Manitoba informs her work. Sandra Birdsell draws on her Russian Mennonite and French Canadian heritage and prairie history (with such events at the Morris flood, for example).

Sandra Birdsell's awards include the Gerald Lampert Award (1984), the National Magazine Award for Short Fiction (1984), W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award (1990), the Joseph B. Staufer Award from the Canada Council for Meritorious Achievement in the Arts (1992), the Marian Engel Award, the Writers' Development Trust Award (1993), and the McNally Robinson Best Book of the Year Award (1993), Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award (1997), Saskatchewan Children's Literature Award (1997), she has also been short-listed for numerous other awards including the Governor General's Award for Literature. Birdsell's work has appeared in "The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories", "Stories By Canadian Women", and "From Ink Lake", among other anthologies. Sandra Birdsell has been invited to teach writing and to be writer-in-residence at a number of institutions (including the Regina Public Library, McMaster University, the University of Waterloo and the University of Alberta). Sandra Birdsell lives in Regina.

Finding aid:

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Textual records; graphic material; sound recordings; cartographic material; object (Paper) Finding aid available. Available in main reference room binder. (90: Open)

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General note:

Material remaining to be processed: About 65 diskettes of correspondence, beginning 1992 to 2000. Correspondence, miscellaneous, novels, short stories and film scripts in software programs, McWrite II and Microsoft Word.

Restrictions on access note:

Restrictions: The majority of files in Series 1. Working notebooks and a number of files in Series 8. Correspondence have been restricted, also a diary entry in Series 9, and a portion of a file in Series 6. For specific file numbers and terms of restriction, check series-level descriptions and file list, within the finding aid.

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1 B : 2001-09
2 : 2001-09
3 : 2001-09
29 : 2001-09
30 : 2001-09
39 : 2001-09
1 A : 2001-09
4 : 2001-09
5 : 2001-09
6 : 2001-09
7 : 2001-09
8 : 2001-09
9 : 2001-09
10 : 2001-09
11 : 2001-09
12 : 2001-09
13 : 2001-09
14 : 2001-09
15 : 2001-09
16 : 2001-09
17 : 2001-09
18 : 2001-09
19 : 2001-09
20 : 2001-09
21 : 2001-09
22 : 2001-09
23 : 2001-09
24 : 2001-09
25 : 2001-09
26 : 2001-09
27 : 2001-09
28 : 2001-09
31 : 2001-09
32 : 2001-09
33 : 2001-09
34 : 2001-09
35 : 2001-09
36 : 2001-09
37 : 2001-09
38 : 2001-09
40 : 2001-09
41 : 2001-09
42 : 2001-09
43 : 2001-09
CASS 669 : 2001-09
CASS 670 : 2001-09
CASS 671 : 2001-09
CASS 672 : 2001-09
CASS 673 : 2001-09
CASS 674 A : 2001-09
CASS 674 B : 2001-09
CASS 675 : 2001-09
CASS 676 : 2001-09
CASS 677 : 2001-09
CASS 678 : 2001-09
CASS 679 : 2001-09
CASS 680 : 2001-09
CASS 681 : 2001-09

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0243

Other accession no.:

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2001-09 LMS
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Conditions of access:

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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0243 2001-09]

[Consultation 10 Closed]

2--3;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

29--30;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

39;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

1 B;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

LMS container [LMS-0243 2001-09]

[Consultation 90 Open]

4--28;

[Consultation 90 Open]

31--38;

[Consultation 90 Open]

40--43;

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0243 2001-09]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

3;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

6;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

23;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

32;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0243 2001-09]

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

19;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

29;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

36;

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Sound recordings

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0243] CASS 669

[Consultation 10 Closed]

LMS container [LMS-0243]

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 670--CASS 673;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 674 A--CASS 674 B;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 675--CASS 681;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0243 2001-09]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2;

[Consultation 90 Open]

19;

[Consultation 90 Open]

25;

[Consultation 90 Open]

33--34;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

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