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Phyllis Rose correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-075

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of ten pieces of correspondence related to the Wesleyan English Department or other professional business.

Dates

  • Creation: 1977-1984

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

University records - Copyright held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the creator - In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Biographical / Historical

Phyllis Rose (born 1942) was a professor of English at Wesleyan University from 1969 until her retirement in 2005. She received a BA from Radcliff College, MA from Yale, PhD from Harvard, and an MAAE from Wesleyan University. She is the author of three biographical works: Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf (1978), Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (1983), and Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time (1989). She has also authored two collections of essays and reviews and her memoirs entitled The Year of Reading Proust (1997), and edited the Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993). She is a contributing writer to many publications including the New York Times Book Review,The Sophisticated Traveler, and Civilization Magazine, and is on the editorial board of The American Scholar.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (1 half hollinger box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Phyllis Rose (born 1942) was a professor of English at Wesleyan University from 1969 until her retirement in 2005.

The collection consists of ten pieces of correspondence related to the Wesleyan English Department or other professional business.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Phyllis Rose, 2004, in honor of Joseph W. Reed.

Related Materials

More information about Phyllis Rose can be found in the Wesleyan University vertical subject files, Wesleyan University, Special Collections & Archives.

Title
Phyllis Rose correspondence, 1977-1984
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by Patricia Stark, May 2005 Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, October 2007 Migrated to ArchivesSpace by J. C. Mlozanowski, September 2020
Date
September 16, 2020
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives Repository

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