Size: 1.5 linear feet
Span Dates: 1995-2006
Accession Number(s): M1996-0819
Creator: Adams, Susan S.
Summary: This collection contains correspondence and manuscript drafts relating to the publication of Susan S. Adams’s study of southern women writers, Moving On: The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin, and her study of Anne Tyler entitled Loss and Decline in the Novels of Anne Tyler: The "Slipping Down" Life.
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Preferred Citation: [Box #, Folder #], MS-49 Susan S. Adams Papers, Eva G. Farris Special Collections, W. Frank Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University.
Processing Information: Processed by Melanie McSwain Adolphson, 2004
Finding aid migration completed Fall 2015.
Subject(s):
Women authors
Women’s and gender history
Person(s):
Adams, Susan S.
Susan S. Adams, formerly Susan S. Kissel, was hired around 1977 in the Department of Literature and Language (now English) at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). She developed several women’s literature courses and participated in many scholarly projects focusing on women’s literature, art, and history. She directed the university’s Women’s Studies Program from 1981-1985. Adams also co-developed the NKU Women’s Center in 1983 and served on its advisory board from 1984-1986.
Description |
Date |
Box |
Folder |
Series 1: Moving On |
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Prospectus for book; originally titled Life without Father: The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Gail Godwin, Anne Tyler, and Other Contemporary Southern Women Novelists. |
before 1995 |
1 |
1 |
First draft, re-titled Coming of Age: The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Gail Godwin, Anne Tyler, and Other Contemporary Southern Women Novelists. |
before 1995 |
1 |
2-3 |
Second manuscript draft with cover letter to Ms. Pat Brown, Director and Editor of The Popular Press. Manuscript is still entitled Coming of Age |
January 1995 |
1
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4-5
|
Third manuscript draft. Two letters between the author and publisher are included, as well as a reader's report of the book.
|
June 1995 |
1 |
6-7 |
Fourth manuscript draft. Enclosed with two letters between author and publisher discussing revisions and a second copy of the reader's report from Folder 7. |
September 1995 |
2 |
1-2 |
Unidentified draft, still entitled Coming of Age |
Before 1996 |
2 |
3-4 |
Four items of correspondence between Susan Kissel and her publisher concerning the final revisions of the book. Also included are an index and material for the book jacket (summary of the book and a biographical sketch of the author). |
May-June 1996 |
2 |
5 |
Corrected page proofs (called 1st galleys in the correspondence) |
After 1996 |
2 |
6-7 |
Index with author's corrections in blue pencil |
After 1996 |
2 |
8 |
Series 2: Loss and Decline… |
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|
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Undated draft manuscript with author's corrections |
circa 2006 |
3 |
1-2 |
Camera-ready manuscript entitled The "Slipping-Down" World of Anne Tyler's Novels |
circa 2006 |
3 |
3-4 |
Series 3: Articles |
1983, 1986, undated |
3 |
5 |
