Collection search - Audrey Thomas fonds [textual record (some electronic), graphic material, sound recording]

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Audrey Thomas fonds [textual record (some electronic), graphic material, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1940]-1999.

Reference:

R11818-0-0-E, LMS-0153

Type of material:

Art, Photographs, Sound recordings, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3673019

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Audrey Thomas fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1940]-1999.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

19 m of textual records and other material.
2 computer disks of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds includes correspondence; research notes, manuscripts and typescripts for "Ten Green Bottles", "Mrs. Blood", "Songs My Mother Taught Me", "Latakia", "Intertidal Life", "Goodbye Harold, Good Luck", "Graven Images" and "Wild Blue Yonder", as well as, for published and unpublished short stories, radio plays, articles and reviews; documents concerning professional activities; early writings; education and teaching; photographs, posters, audio cassettes, computer diskettes, and memorabilia.

Provenance:

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Thomas, Audrey, 1935-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Thomas, Audrey, 1935- : Short-story writer and novelist, Audrey Thomas (née Callahan) was born in Binghampton, New York in 1935. She received a B.A. from Smith College in 1957 and a M.A. in English from the University of British Columbia in 1963 where she worked towards a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon language and literature. Thomas married sculptor and art teacher, Ian Thomas whom she met during a year abroad at St. Andrew's University in Scotland. They immigrated to Canada in 1959, settled in British Columbia, and had three daughters. The Thomases lived for two years in Ghana where Ian Thomas taught from 1964 to 1966. Following her return to Vancouver, Audrey Thomas published her first collection of stories, "Ten Green Bottles" (1967), and then several novels: "Mrs. Blood" (1970), "Songs My Mother Taught Me" (1973), "Latakia" (1979), and "Real Mothers" (1981), a collection of stories. In her work, Thomas experiments with narrative method and use of language to depict women's sense of emotional alienation, struggling with the dark side of the self, or hovering on the verge of disintegration. Thomas received the Marian Engel Award in 1987 and the Canada-Australia Literary Prize in 1990. She has won the B.C. Book Prize for fiction three times: for her novel "Intertidal Life" (1985), the short story collection "Wild Blue Yonder" (1991), and most recently for the novel "Coming down from Wa" (1995). She was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award and Commonwealth Literature Prize in 1996. Thomas has taught creative writing at the University of Victoria and at the University of British Columbia and has been writer-in-residence at Concordia University, at Simon Fraser University, among others. Thomas lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (some electronic); graphic material; sound recordings (Paper) Finding aid available. Available in reference room. (Restrictions not set)

Additional information:

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Physical description note:

Includes: 78 photographs, 4 strips of photographic negative, 1 sheet of contact prints, 2 slides, 5 audio cassettes, 9 posters, postcards and 2 computer disks.

Restrictions on access note:

Some restrictions on consultation.

Accessions 1989-03 and 1992-17: Use "access to confidential documents" form.

Within accession 1994-14, the following material has been restricted: Financial records and selected correspondence have been restricted (Box 65); Box 44 - personal correspondence and financial receipts from Audrey Thomas' travels to Africa in 1971; and Box 64 containing correspondence and other records related to Thomas' family. Box 65 RESTRICTED until 25 years after the death of the author.

Accession 2000-02 : correspondence with Anne, Isobel Huggan and Jane Rule (restricted 25 years beyond death of author).

Container note(s):

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CASS 27 : 1989-03
CASS 271 : 1992-17
CASS 272 : 1992-17
CASS 273 : 1994-14
CASS 506 : 2000-02
CASS 507 : 2000-02
CASS 508 : 2000-02
CASS 509 : 2000-02
1 : 1989-03
1 : 2000-02
1 : 1994-14
2 : 1994-14
3 : 1994-14
4 : 1994-14
5 : 1994-14
6 : 1994-14
7 : 1994-14
8 : 1994-14
9 : 1994-14
10 : 1994-14
44 : 1994-14
11 : 1994-14
12 : 1994-14
13 : 1994-14
14 : 1994-14
15 : 1994-14
16 : 1994-14
17 : 1994-14
18 : 1994-14
19 : 1994-14
20 : 1994-14
21 : 1994-14
22 : 1994-14
23 : 1994-14
24 : 1994-14
25 : 1994-14
26 : 1994-14
27 : 1994-14
28 : 1994-14
28 A : 1994-14
29 : 1994-14
30 : 1994-14
31 : 1994-14
32 : 1994-14
33 : 1994-14
34 : 1994-14
35 : 1994-14
36 : 1994-14
37 : 1994-14
38 : 1994-14
39 : 1994-14
40 : 1994-14
41 : 1994-14
42 : 1994-14
43 : 1994-14
45 : 1994-14
46 : 1994-14
47 : 1994-14
48 : 1994-14
49 : 1994-14
50 : 1994-14
51 : 1994-14
52 : 1994-14
53 : 1994-14
54 : 1994-14
55 : 1994-14
58 : 1994-14
59 : 1994-14
60 : 1994-14
61 : 1994-14
62 : 1994-14
63 : 1994-14
64 : 1994-14
66 : 1994-14
1 : 1992-17
2 : 1992-17
3 : 1992-17
4 : 1992-17
5 : 1992-17
6 : 1992-17
7 A : 1992-17
2 : 1989-03
3 : 1989-03
4 : 1989-03
5 : 1989-03
6 : 1989-03
7 : 1989-03
8 : 1989-03
9 : 1989-03
10 : 1989-03
11 : 1989-03
12 : 1989-03
13 : 1989-03
14 : 1989-03
15 : 1989-03
16 : 1989-03
17 : 1989-03
18 : 1989-03
19 : 1989-03
20 : 1989-03
21 : 1989-03
22 : 1989-03
23 : 1989-03
24 : 1989-03
25 : 1989-03
26 : 1989-03
27 : 1989-03
28 : 1989-03
2 : 2000-02
3 : 2000-02
4 : 2000-02
5 : 2000-02
6 : 2000-02
7 : 2000-02
8 : 2000-02
9 : 2000-02
10 : 2000-02
11 : 2000-02
12 : 2000-02
13 : 2000-02
14 : 2000-02
15 : 2000-02
16 : 2000-02
17 : 2000-02
18 : 2000-02
19 : 2000-02
20 : 2000-02
21 : 2000-02
22 : 2000-02
23 : 2000-02
24 : 2000-02
25 : 2000-02
26 : 2000-02
27 : 2000-02
28 : 2000-02
29 : 2000-02
30 : 2000-02
32 : 2000-02
29 : 1989-03
30 : 1989-03
31 : 2000-02
65 : 1994-14
7 B : 1992-17

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0153

Other accession no.:

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1989-03 LMS
1992-17 LMS
1994-14 LMS
2000-02 LMS
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Conditions of access:

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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0153]

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 27;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 271--CASS 273;

[Consultation 90 Open]

CASS 506--CASS 509;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1989-03] 1

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

LMS container [LMS-0153 2000-02] 1

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1994-14]

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

1--10;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

44;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1994-14]

[Consultation 90 Open]

11--43;

[Consultation 90 Open]

45--55;

[Consultation 90 Open]

58--64;

[Consultation 90 Open]

66;

[Consultation 90 Open]

28 A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1992-17]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--6;

[Consultation 90 Open]

7 A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1989-03] 2--28

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0153 2000-02]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2--30;

[Consultation 90 Open]

32;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1989-03] 29--30

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

LMS container [LMS-0153 2000-02] 31

[Consultation 10 Closed]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1994-14] 65

[Consultation 10 Closed]

LMS container [LMS-0153 1992-17] 7 B

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

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