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- catalog abstract "The collection consists primarily of correspondence, and also includes Deming's writings and material she collected, documenting her activities, thoughts, and friendships. Also included are family photographs and correspondence, financial records, and audiotapes. The papers provide an overview of her early writings and a complete view of her writing and attempts to publish after the late 1960s. The collection contains documents by and about numerous female and male writers, publishers, photographers, painters, and political activists from the early 1940s through the early 1980s, mostly in the United States. The papers document the peace movement and its use of nonviolent direct action in the 1960s, and shed light on the 1960s civil rights movement and on the women's movement and lesbian activism in the 1970s and 1980s. The papers also document Deming's long-term relationships, including those with Mary Meigs and Jane Gapen Watrous Verlaine, and provide some information about women witches.".
- catalog contributor b2264466.
- catalog date "1886".
- catalog description "Barbara Deming Papers, 1886-1995. MC 408. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Barbara Deming, author and activist, was born on July 23, 1917, in New York City, the daughter of admiralty lawyer Harold S. and former singer Katherine Burritt Deming. Deming grew up in New York City and New City, N.Y. At the age of sixteen, she fell in love with an older woman; this prompted her to begin to write. Although she had long-term relationships with several women and lived, as she said, as a lesbian, Deming did not "come out" publicly until she was in her fifties. She majored in drama at Bennington College (B.A. 1938) and earned an M.A. from Western Reserve University in 1941. In the late 1930s she worked at the Mercury Theatre in New York and in the early 1940s reviewed films for the Library of Congress. In 1945 she became a full-time freelance writer, publishing film reviews, theater pieces, and poetry in such journals as Chimera, Hudson Review, and City Lights. She was unable to find publishers for several short stories, a novel, a book about film, and much of her poetry until the early 1970s. Deming spent a year (1950-1951) in Italy and Greece, and traveled in Mexico, India, Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00057".
- catalog description "In 1959, inspired by Mohandas Gandhi's writings, Deming became politically active, advocating nonviolence in all spheres of life. Periodicals such as The Nation and Liberation (for which she was an editor) published many of her political essays. She was active in several peace organizations, demonstrated for peace and civil rights, and was jailed several times for acts of civil disobedience. In the early 1970s, Deming became a feminist and concentrated her efforts on women's and lesbians' issues until her death in 1984, on Sugar Loaf Key, Fla.".
- catalog description "The collection consists primarily of correspondence, and also includes Deming's writings and material she collected, documenting her activities, thoughts, and friendships. Also included are family photographs and correspondence, financial records, and audiotapes. The papers provide an overview of her early writings and a complete view of her writing and attempts to publish after the late 1960s. The collection contains documents by and about numerous female and male writers, publishers, photographers, painters, and political activists from the early 1940s through the early 1980s, mostly in the United States. The papers document the peace movement and its use of nonviolent direct action in the 1960s, and shed light on the 1960s civil rights movement and on the women's movement and lesbian activism in the 1970s and 1980s. The papers also document Deming's long-term relationships, including those with Mary Meigs and Jane Gapen Watrous Verlaine, and provide some information about women witches.".
- catalog description "There is related material: Barbara Deming Papers at Boston University.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent "33.6 linear ft. (80+1/2 file boxes) plus 33 photograph folders, 3 folio folders, 6 folio+ folders, 3 oversize folders, 1 supersize folder, 5 audiotapes.".
- catalog issued "1886".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1886-1995 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "collection".