The collection encompasses literary works, including poems, poetry groups and collections, prose fiction, drama (including fiction radio scripts), opera libretti and other works written to be set to music, translations, notebooks, autobiographical writings and curricula vitae, interviews and questionnaires, biography, criticism (essays, reviews, lectures, talks, classes), criticism (groups and collections), book-length critical studies, radio scripts (non-fiction), notes, preliminaries, and miscellaneous writings; general correspondence files and groups of correspondence on particular topics; subject files; publications and other printed matter; images; sound recordings; and miscellaneous series, including small sets of papers of some of Stevenson's relations, and correspondence arising from the compilation of John Lucas and Matt Simpson, editors, 'The way you say the world: a celebration for Anne Stevenson' (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2003).
Literary papers and correspondence of Anne Stevenson
This material is held atCambridge University Library
- Reference
- GB 12 MS Add.9451
- Dates of Creation
- 1930-2009
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English .
- Physical Description
- 0.6 cubic metre(s) 38 boxes, paper paper
Scope and Content
Access Information
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Acquisition Information
The bulk of the collection was presented by Anne Stevenson, 1997 and subsequently. Some sections were presented by relations of Anne Stevenson.
Other Finding Aids
A hard copy handlist is available for consultation in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.
Bibliography
For further details see John Wells, 'Anne Stevenson: Archives and Publications' in John Lucas and Matt Simpson, compilers, 'The Way You Say the World: A Celebration for Anne Stevenson', Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2003, and 'Observing the Overhearing: The Anne Stevenson Papers in Cambridge University Library' and 'Bibliography of Anne Stevenson's Published Works' in Angela Leighton, ed., 'Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson', Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.