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Series III: Calendars, Datebooks, and Personal Correspondence, 1977-2008
Series IV: Books by Marilyn French, 1964-2007

Marilyn French papers, 1957-2009, bulk 1978-2008

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Series I: Business and Promotional Records, 1957-2008

This series, which comprises the bulk of the collection, documents the business side of French's literary and scholarly career. It includes contracts, correspondence concerning foreign rights and permissions, and files related to publicizing and promoting her work. There is a significant amount of correspondence between French and agent, Charlotte Sheedy; this series is particularly strong in documenting Sheedy's role in placing and promoting French's work.

Subseries I.1: Business and Promotional Records by Book, 1974-2006

In this subseries the materials are grouped together by book, and arranged chronologically by publication date of the book. A typical file will include contracts, correspondence, rights and permissions files, promotional material, and reviews (domestic and international) of the book.


Box 1 Ulysses: The Book as World , 1974-1993, (9 folders)

(contains Contracts, correspondence, reviews and information in the 1993 reissue)

The Women's Room

Box 1 Contracts, Permissions and Agreements, (3 folders)

Box 1 Correspondence, (3 folders)

Box 1 Publicity, 1977, (12 folders)

(Includes general publicity, interviews, book tour, parties and lists of galleys sent to reviewers)

Box 1 Television Adaptation, 1980, (2 folders)


Box 2 Foreign Rights


Box 3 Virago Reissue, 1997-2007, (4 folders)

Box 3 Reviews--U.S. and International, (21 folders)

Box 3 Edith Wharton Introductions, 1980-1987, (5 folders)

The Bleeding Heart


Box 4 Contracts and Business Records, 1979-2006, (24 folders)

(U.S. and International Contracts, bills, etc.)

Box 4 Screenplay, 1988, (3 folders)

Box 4 Publicity and Promotional Materials, 1980, (12 folders)


Box 5 Reviews, 1980, (21 folders)

(U.S. and International Reviews)

Shakespeare's Division of Experience


Box 6 Contracts and Business Records, 1981-1982, (3 folders)

Box 6 Publicity and Promotional Material, (3 folders)

Box 6 Reviews, (5 folders)

Beyond Power

Box 6 Contracts and Business Records, 1982-2002, (20 folders)

Box 6 Publicity, 1985-1986, (9 folders)


Box 7 Publicity, (11 folders)

Her Mother's Daughter

Box 7 Contracts and Business Records, 1986-1988, (20 folders)

Box 7 Publicity, (11 folders)

(includes promotional and book tours in the U.S. and abroad)


Box 8 Reviews, 1988, (10 folders)

The War Against Women

Box 8 Contracts and Business records, 1991-1994, (17 folders)

Box 8 Publicity and Promotional Materials, (6 folders)


Box 9 Reviews, (8 folders)

Our Father

Box 9 Contracts and Business Records, (13 folders)

Box 9 Publicity and Promotional Material, (11 folders)

Box 9 Reviews, (2 folders)

Box 9 Dear Mother , 1994, (3 folders)

Box 9 Diary of a Slave , 1994-1996

Box 9 De Minaar (The Lover) Contracts

Box 9 Short Stories (German), 1996

Box 9 The Women's Room 2000


Box 10 My Summer with George

Box 10 Contracts and Business Records, (14 folders)

Box 10 Publicity and Promotion, 1997, (8 folders)

A Season in Hell

Box 10 Contracts and Business Records, 1996-2005, (18 folders)

Box 10 Publicity and Promotion, 1998, (5 folders)

Women's History of the World

Box 10 Contracts and Business Records, (16 folders)


Box 11 Correspondence

From Eve to Dawn

Box 11 Contracts and Licensing Agreements, 1992-2000

Box 11 Correspondence and Foreign Rights, (11 folders)


Box 10 Contracts and Business Records, 2001-2007, (6 folders)

Box 10 Publicity and Promotion, (4 folders)

Box 10 Reviews, (2 folders)

Box 10 The Love Children , 2005, (2 folders)

In the Name of Friendship

Box 10 Contracts and Business Records, 2003-2006, (5 folders)

Box 10 Publicity and Promotion

Box 10 Reviews

Subseries II.2: Chronological and General Business Records, 1957-2008

This subseries, arranged chronologically, includes files not specifically related to a particular book or promotional tour. It includes correspondence, files related to interviews and speaking engagements, and correspondence related to the placement of short stories and journal or magazine articles. The subseries also includes photographs and proposals for films and television programs based on French's work.


Box 12 Correspondence with Publishers and Literary Journals, 1957-1979

1979

Box 12 Talks

Box 12 Correspondence

1980

Box 12 Interviews

Box 12 Appearances and Interviews

Box 12 Travel and Conferences

Box 12 Speaking Engagements, 1980-1992

Box 12 Hutchinson Correspondence, 1980-1983

1981

Box 12 Interviews

Box 12 Appearances

Box 12 Norway

1982

Box 12 Appearances

Box 12 Appearances and Interviews, 1983-1984

Box 12 Correspondence--reviews and Articles, 1973-1986

Box 12 Correspondence--Stories and Articles, 1980-1984

Box 12 Correspondence-Personal, 1980-1986

1985

Box 12 Appearances

Box 12 Letter to the Editor of The New York Times

1986

Box 12 Appearances

Box 12 Correspondence

Box 12 Humanist World Conference


Box 13 1987

Box 13 Interviews

Box 13 Jerusalem

Box 13 Interviews

Box 13 Scotland

Box 13 Newsday/Los Angeles Times Syndicate Correspondence

Box 13 Ms. Correspondence

Box 13 James Joyce: The Ninth Symposium--Contacts and Correspondence

1988

Box 13 Jane Addams Conference, 1988

Box 13 Appearances and Interviews

Box 13 Correspondence

1989

Box 13 Correspondence

Box 13 Appearances and Interviews

Box 13 Paris Conference

Box 13 Marietta Speech

Box 13 Boston

Box 13 Moscow Conference

Box 13 Gender Distribution of New York Times Book Review Authors and Reviewers, 1986-1989

1990

Box 13 Correspondence

Box 13 Appearances

Box 13 American Academy of Psychoanalysis Talk

Box 13 Meulenhoff Correspondence and Contract

1991

Box 13 Correspondence

Box 13 Ireland Trip--James Joyce

Box 13 Florida Lecture

1992

Box 13 Requests

Box 13 Speaking Engagements, 1992-1994


Box 14 Amsterdam

Box 14 Stratford Festival Canada

Box 14 James Joyce Symposium

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Appearances

Box 14 Indiana State Lecture

1993

Box 14 James Joyce Symposium

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Appearances

Box 14 Indiana State Lecture

1993

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Interviews

1994

Box 14 Appearances

Box 14 Harbourfront Reading Series

Box 14 Interview: Nasrin

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Paris Trip

Box 14 Mother/Daughter Interview

1995

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Interviews

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Mothers' Day

Box 14 Susan Mitchell Interview

1996

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Cookbook Correspondence

1997

Box 14 Interviews

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Television Appearances--Amsterdam

Box 14 Women Writing Prizes

Box 14 Little Brown UK

1997

Box 14 Interviews

1998

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Answered Fan Mail

Box 14 Conference--Hamburg, Germany

1999

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Norway

Box 14 Palm Beach Literary Society

Box 14 Interviews

Box 14 Requests

2000

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Requests

2001

Box 14 Appearances

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Teaching--Assisi

Box 14 Interview--Dorfman

Box 14 Requests and Blurbs

2002

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Appearances, (5 folders)

Box 14 Holland-Friendship

Box 14 Atwood Interview

2003

Box 14 Requests

Box 14 Feminist Press Gala

2004

Box 14 Appearances

Box 14 The MERC: Proust Reading

Box 14 Tillie Olsen

Box 14 Donna Ferber

Box 14 Barbara Love

Box 14 Turkey

Box 14 Women's Library of Istanbul

Box 14 The Nation

Box 14 Correspondence

2005

Box 14 Interviews

Box 14 Stephanie Genty Correspondence

Box 14 Stephanie Genty Interview

2006

Box 14 Interviews

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Requests for Appearance

2007

Box 14 Fan Mail Answered

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Greer Review

2008

Box 14 Correspondence

Box 14 Paris Press


Box 15 Biographical Material

Box 15 Jobs/Curriculum Vitae

Box 15 Bio-Vitae

Box 15 Biography

Box 15 Articles about French

Box 15 Photographs, 1950s

Box 15 Photographs, 1994

Box 15 Photographs--Hofstra Honorary Degree, 1992

Box 15 Short Stories

Box 15 Other Submissions

Box 15 Blurbs

Box 15 Rights and Copyrights

Box 15 Magazine Articles--Correspondence and Contracts, 1985-1992

Box 15 Magazine and Anthology Contracts

Box 15 China, (3 folders)

Box 15 Fiction Sales Correspondence, 1977-1982

Box 15 Travel and Conferences, 1981-1990

Box 15 Business Correspondence, 1977-1989

(primarily correspondence from Charlotte Sheedy Agency regarding placing French's work)

Film and Television Proposals

Box 15 General

Box 15 TV Series

Box 15 A Woman's History of the World

Box 15 Ruth Mickel's World, 1985

Box 15 The Bleeding Heart Screenplay, (2 folders)

Box 15 The Women's Room Teleplay

Box 15 Liv Ullmann's Refugee Project

Subseries I.3: Professional Activities, 1986-2008

The professional activities subseries documents French's involvement with various scholarly, literary, and feminist organizations, as well as her teaching career. It also includes files on various awards and honors awarded to French over the course of her career. Finally, it includes a subject file of women's issues that French compiled and maintained relating to women's political, activist, and cultural organizations, as well as general subjects affecting women.


Box 16 Aspen Institute

Box 16 Atlantic Center Correspondence and Publicity

Box 16 Danforth Foundation

Box 16 Emma Goldman Archive Project

Feminist Press

Box 16 Board of Directors, 1997-1998, (2 folders)

Box 16 Correspondence, 1991-2008, (3 folders)

Box 16 Harvard University

Box 16 Harvard Award, 1993

Box 16 Harvard Graduate Society Council, 1990-1993, (3 folders)

Box 16 Hofstra Honorary Doctoral Degree, 1992

Box 16 Hofstra Correspondence

Box 16 Hofstra Alumni/Estabrook Awards

Box 16 Holy Cross, (2 folders)

Box 16 Joyce Foundation

Box 16 Ms. Foundation for Women

Box 16 National Writers Union

Box 16 PEN, 1989-1992, (3 folders)

Box 16 PEN Authors Guild

Box 16 PEN Fiction Project

Box 16 PEN Hemingway

Box 16 Phi Beta Kappa


Box 17 Women's Issues

Box 17 Women's Committee

Box 17 Poems

Box 17 Clippings

Box 17 Deconstruction

Box 17 Women's Research Network

Box 17 The Love Children Correspondence

Box 17 Censorship

Box 17 The Political Novel

Box 17 Psychology Notes

Box 17 Reversals

Box 17 PBS Interview

Box 17 The Love Children

Box 17 Feminist Materials

Box 17 Surrogacy Issues

Box 17 Ritual Abuse

Box 17 International Womens Writers Association

Box 17 Women in Authority, 1998

Box 17 Times Book Review Complaint, (2 folders)

Box 17 Lexington Prison

Box 17 Crisis Center Network

Box 17 Women's Playhouse Trust: Shakespeare, 1986

Series II: Writings, 1957-2009

The writings series includes manuscripts, notes, drafts, and research files French drafted or compiled in the course of writing her novels, articles, and non-fiction monographs. The series includes materials related to her earliest academic writings, as well as her major works of fiction and non-fiction.

Subseries II.1: Books, 1964-2009

The books subseries is notable for its inclusion of plot summaries and research files related to an unwritten novel, Sarah Murtagh. It also includes preliminary drafts and notes forDepression Babyan unpublished memoir.


Box 18 The Carving of the Stone (early unpublished novel)

Box 18 The Commanding Center of Ulysses, 1964 (Master's Thesis), 1964

Box 18 The Book as World, 1972 (Dissertation), 1972

Edith Wharton Material

Box 18 Introductions, 1995, (3 folders)

Box 18 Notes, (2 folders)

Box 18 Wharton Papers

Box 18 Wharton Criticism

Box 18 Virago Press Correspondence, 1984-1986

Shakespeare's Division of Experience

Box 18 Correspondence, 1979-1982

Box 18 General Notes

Box 18 Notes: Comedies

Box 18 Notes: Histories

Box 18 Structure

Box 18 Corrections

Arrangement in Black and White

Box 18 Outlines and Notes

Box 18 Scene

Box 18 Research, (2 folders)

The War Against Women

Box 18 Research

Box 18 Biographies

Box 18 Holland


Box 19 Beyond Power: Women, Men, and Morals

Box 19 Notes and Research, (12 folders)

Box 19 Index

Box 19 Bibliography

Box 19 Clippings, (2 folders)

Manuscript

Box 19 Introduction

Box 19 Chapter I: Matrocentry

Box 19 Chapter II: Patriarchy


Box 20 Chapter III: Women Under Patriarchy

Box 20 Chapter IV: Men Under Patriarchy

Box 20 Chapter V: Present Perspective

Box 20 Chapter VI: Feminism

Box 20 Chapter VII: Reevaluations

Box 20 Chapter VIII: Long View Forward

War Against Women

Box 20 Research, (7 folders)

Box 20 Our Father , (3 folders)

Box 20 My Summer with George

A Season in Hell

Box 20 Diary, 1992

Box 20 Notes and Manuscript Pages

Box 20 Proposal, undated


Box 21 From Eve to Dawn

Box 21 Synopsis, (2 folders)

Box 21 Copyeditor's Corrections, (8 folders)

Box 21 Review, 2009

Box 21 In the Name of Friendship , (2 folders)

Box 21 Depression Baby: A Memoir , (2 folders)

(unpublished memoir)

Sarah Murtagh--unfinished novel

Box 21 Notes and Research Files, (8 folders)

Box 21 First Draft

Subseries II.2: Essays and Articles, 1957-2005

The Essays and Articles Subseries includes manuscripts and related material for essays and articles that French submitted to magazines and academic journals. They chronicle both her academic interests (in James Joyce, Edith Wharton, and feminist literary criticism) as well as her political activism and her work as a feminist cultural critic.


Box 22 Course Notes and Scholarly Writing, 1957-1966

Box 22 Essay Notes, 1972 1974, 1972, 1974, (2 folders)

Box 22 Christine de Pisan Notes

Box 22 "Why The Women's Room Should Not Have Been Written,", 1977

Box 22 Reflections on The Women's Room Wall, 1979

Box 22 Journal Articles--General, 1979-1983

Box 22 Women and Friendship, 1979

Box 22 "ERA: Why Bother", 1981

Box 22 James Joyce Criticism and Essays, 1982-1998, (2 folders)

Box 22 Friedan Article in Esquire, 1983

Box 22 India Article, 1985, (4 folders)

Box 22 Lily Tomlin Profile, 1985, (2 folders)

Box 22 "Shakespeare in America"--Vogue, 1985

Box 22 George Sand Notes, 1986

Box 22 Michigan Quarterly Review , 1987

Box 22 Newsday, 1987

Box 22 College Literature--"Muzzled Women", 1987

Box 22 Gentleman's Quarterly--"The New Adam,", 1988

Box 22 Mamonova , 1989

Box 22 Hypatia , 1989

Box 22 Hedda Nussbaum, 1989

Box 22 Spenser Encyclopedia, 1989, (3 folders)

Box 22 Women's Shakespeare, 1990

Box 22 New York Times

Box 22 Censorship, 1991


Box 23 Letter to Editor--New York Times, 1990

Box 23 Cleopatra--Women's Review of Books, 1990

Box 23 International Writing, 1990

Box 23 Macbeth, 1991

Box 23 "A Choice we Never Chose"--Women's Review of Books, 1991

Box 23 Sphinx, 1991

Box 23 "Power and Sex", 1992

Box 23 "Will Secularism Survive"--Free Inquiry, 1992

Box 23 "Family as Site"--The Telegraph, 1992

Box 23 Sunday Mail , 1992

Box 23 Writers' Workshop--Ireland, 1992

Box 23 "Masculine Mystique"--Literary Review, 1992

Box 23 Introduction to The Women's Room, 1993

Box 23 Articles--United Kingdom, 1994

Box 23 Denmark, 1994

Box 23 Op-Ed, 1994

Box 23 Readers' Guide to Women's Studies, 1996

Box 23 History Encyclopedia, 1996

Box 23 New Choices , 1996

Box 23 Chanteh , 1997

Box 23 Guardian , 1997

Box 23 Catholics for Free Choice , 1997

Box 23 Joyce, 1997

Box 23 Forever Sisters, 1998

Box 23 Sand Intro, 1998

Box 23 Ladies Home Journal , 1999

Box 23 Rosie Scott Intro, 1999

Box 23 The Feminist Press, 1999

Box 23 Global City Review , 1999

Box 23 Guardian , 1999

Box 23 Margaret Atwood, 2000

Box 23 Free Inquiry , 2000

Box 23 Islam Article, 2001

Box 23 Introduction or Donna Ferber's A Woman's Journey Through Divorce, 2004

Box 23 Conscience , 2004

Box 23 Feminist Press Art Forms, 2005

Box 23 Readers' Report, 2005

Box 23 General Articles

Box 23 Unpublished Articles


Box 24 Published Articles


Box 23

Subseries II.3: Short Stories, Poems, and Reviews, undated and 1994, undated, 1994

This subseries is comprised of manuscripts and drafts of French's short stories and poems, several unpublished, and notes and ideas for unrealized literary works. This subseries also includes French's reviews of others' works.

Box 23 Short Story Manuscripts, (4 folders)


Box 25 "Diary of a Slave"

Box 25 Exquisite Corpse story for Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1994

Box 25 "Walking Around"

Box 25 Poems

(includes two unpublished poems--"Fall" and "Hot Spell")

Box 25 Ideas/Beginnings

(includes drafts, story ideas, inspirations, dreams, and other notes)

Box 25 Reviews by French, (9 folders)

Subseries II.4: Talks and Lectures, 1978-2002

The Talks and Lectures subseries is comprised of texts of and notes for speeches and lectures French delivered at various events and conferences. Many files also include supporting correspondence, travel information, and other material related to planning and coordinating these lectures.

Box 25 Talks, 1978-1983, (2 folders)

Box 25 Beyond Power, 1985-1986

Box 25 Harvard 350th Reunion, 1986

Box 25 1986

Box 25 Self-Respect, 1986

Box 25 University of Pennsylvania, 1986

Box 25 Edith Wharton Conference, 1987

Box 25 Jerusalem, 1987

Box 25 Berkshire Conference, 1987

Box 25 Joyce Symposium, 1988, (4 folders)

Box 25 Olin Conference, 1988

Box 25 "Is There a Feminist Aesthetics?", 1988

Box 25 Beyond Power-Hofstra, 1988

Box 25 Beyond Power--Vancouver, 1989

Box 25 National Writers Union, 1989

Box 25 PEN Reproduction Conference, 1990

Box 25 Talks, 1991

Box 25 Joyce, 1991

Box 25 Rollins Speech, 1991

Box 25 PEN Taboo Talk, 1992

Box 25 Indiana State University/Shakespeare, 1992

Box 25 James Joyce Symposium-Dublin, 1992

Box 25 Smithsonian Museum-War, 1992

Box 25 Sarah Lawrence, 1992

Box 25 Stratford Festival, 1993

Box 25 YWCA Talk-The War Against Women, 1993

Box 25 Ms. Panel on Pornography, 1993

(includes transcript of the panel)

Box 25 Our Father, 1994

Box 25 Edith Wharton Conference, 1995

Box 25 Goucher College, 1995

Box 25 Oxford Talk, 1996

Box 25 Simone de Beauvoir Talk, 1997, (2 folders)

Box 25 Women's Campaign Fund, 1997

Box 25 Amsterdam, 1997

Box 25 United Nations Event, 1998

Box 25 92nd Street Y, 1998

Box 25 New Century Fund, Grace Paley Introduction, 1998

Box 25 Florence Howe Talk, 2002

Series III: Calendars, Datebooks, and Personal Correspondence, 1977-2008

This series is comprised of French's desk planners and datebooks. She kept careful records of her activities, and those are reflected in these books.


Box 26 1977-1996


Box 27 1997-2008

Box 27 Correspondence

Series IV: Books by Marilyn French, 1964-2007

This series represents a complete run of first editions of French's published work. Also included are bound copies of her Masters Essay and doctoral dissertation.


Box 28 Books by Marilyn French

(includes her Masters Thesis and Dissertation)


Box 29 Books by Marilyn French