Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [197-]-2005 (Creation)
Level of description
Manuscript Collection
Extent and medium
39 boxes (5 metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Barbara Williams is a Toronto-based freelance writer, editor, curator and speaker. She has published three books: a children's work entitled ABC et 123 (Toronto: Press Porcepic, 1980), In Other Words: Interviews with Australian Poets (Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions, 1998) and A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters and Art of Anne Langton (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). She is an accomplished poet, having published numerous poems in a variety of journals, and is one of the leading authorities on contemporary Australian poetry.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of the bulk of Williams' literary work, from the mid-1970s up until 2005. It includes manuscript drafts, research materials, interview transcriptions, correspondence, and copies of her published work.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request. Please note that this material requires 2 business days to retrieve.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- French