Elizabeth Brewster fonds [textual record, graphic material, object]
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Elizabeth Brewster fonds [textual record, graphic material, object]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:12 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list of volumes 1 to 16 and 19 to 28. MSS1819 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000401.pdfMedals (Electronic) Item-level description of medals in the ICON database. 1999-931 (Restrictions not set) -
Record information Elizabeth Brewster fonds [textual record, graphic material, object]
Date:[ca. 1935]-1997.Reference:R931-0-4-E, MG30-D370Type of material:Textual material, Art, Photographs, Objects (including medals and pins)Found in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105440Date(s):[ca. 1935]-1997.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:4.91 m of textual records.
171 photographs : chiefly b&w.
4 medals : 2 gold, 1 bronze, 1 silver.
1 print : reproduction ; 10.7 x 14.2 cm.
9 v., bound ; 21 x 25 and smaller.
1 print : col. poster ; 59 x 42.5 cm folded to 29.5 x 21 cm.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of the personal papers and literary manuscripts of Elizabeth Brewster, arranged in the following series: Manuscript notebooks, Literary manuscripts - poetry, Literary manuscripts - prose, Literary manuscripts - critical writings, Teaching notes, Reviews, Memorabilia, Correspondence - general, Correspondence - nominal, Diaries, Financial records.
The fonds also contains photographs relating to the life and career of Elizabeth Brewster, including a number of formal portraits as well as photographs of Brewster receiving her honorary doctorate, University of New Brunswick, 1982; members of her family; visits with friends; and other writers, including Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay, Frank Scott, Desmond Pacey, P.K. Page, and George Bowering, [ca. 1935-1989]. Also included is a Christmas card sent by James Reaney and Colleen Thibodeau, showing a work by Reaney and Thibodeau, 1990.
There are also medals given to Brewster by various Canadian Universities and by Birks & Sons.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Brewster, Elizabeth, 1922-2012 : Elizabeth Brewster was born in New Brunswick and studied at the University of New Brunswick under the Canadian scholar Desmond Pacey. She worked for many years as a librarian, at Mount Allison University, Carleton University in Ottawa (where she first met the Canadian poet George Johnston), the New Brunswick Legislative Library and the University of Alberta Library. In 1970 Brewster began teaching English at the University of Alberta (where the poets Dorothy Livesay and Margaret Atwood were among her colleagues). From 1972 until 1990 she taught English at the University of Saskatchewan.
Brewster began writing poetry as a student and received early encouragement from the slightly older poet P.K. Page, who was then living in New Brunswick. Brewster's work first appeared in the little magazine The Fiddlehead, whose founding editor, A.G. Bailey, and his successor, Fred Cogswell, she had met while a student at UNB. Ryerson Press published her first book of poetry, the chapbook East Coast, in 1951 and followed it with three other titles, including Lillooet in 1954 and the important collection of selected poems Passage of Summer which established her reputation in 1969.
Brewster is the author of novels, including The Sisters (1974) and Junction (1983), and collections of short stories, including It's Easy to Fall on the Ice (1977) and Visitations (1987), as well as being a prolific poet, whose many collections include Entertaining Angels (1988), Spring Again (1990), Footnotes to the Book of Job (1995) and Garden of Sculpture (1998), Burning Bush (2000), Jacob's Dream (2002), and Bright Centre (2005). The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster (2003) was published by Oberon Press.
Elizabeth Brewster received an honorary degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1982 and a Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Saskatchewan Board of Arts in 1995. Her collection of poems, Footnotes to the Book of Job, was nominated for a Governor-General's Award in 1998. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2001 and to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2008. Elizabeth Brewster died in 2012.Additional information:Accruals:Received in several accruals between 1989 to 2009 from Elizabeth Brewster of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.Subject heading:- Elizabeth Brewster - Manuscripts, n.d., [ca.1943]-1989 Lillooet, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Elizabeth Brewster - Authorship, [1943]-1991 Passage of Summer, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Short stories, Canadian, n.d., [ca.1943]-1989 Sunrise North, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Poets, Canadian, [1943]-1991 In Search of Eros, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Poetry - Publishing, [1943]-1991 Sometimes I Think of Moving, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Poets, British, n.d., [194-]-1989 The Way Home, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Women authors, Canadian, [1943]-1989 Digging In, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Poetry - Women authors, [1943]-1991 Selected Poems, n.d., [1945]-1989
- Elizabeth Brewster - Poetry, [1943]-1991 A House Full of Women, n.d., [194-]-1989
- Dissertation, Academic - Canada, [n.d., 1959-1989] It's Easy to Fall on the Ice, n.d., [194-]-1989
- Books - Reviews - Alberta, [1969-1971] Visitations, n.d., [194-]-1989
- Literature - Study and teaching, n.d., 1972-1987 The Sisters, n.d., [194-]-1989
- University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Sask.) - Faculty, n.d., 1972-1987 Junction, n.d., [194-]-1989
- Journal (Edmonton, Alta.), [1969-1971]
- George Crabbe, n.d., [194-]-1989
- "Pageant in August", n.d., [194-]-1989
- Bliss Carman, [n.d., 1959-1989]
- George Johnston, [n.d., 1959-1989]
- Ruby Wiebe, [n.d., 1972-1987]
- Frederick Philip Grove, [n.d., 1972-1987]
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