Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00436 - Jan Garden Castro Papers

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Reference code

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00436

Title

Jan Garden Castro Papers

Date(s)

  • 1977-2004 (Creation)

Level of description

Manuscript Collection

Extent and medium

8 boxes (1.5 metres)

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Name of creator

([19–?]-)

Biographical history

Jan Garden Castro lives in the United States and has held the position of Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Lindenwood College, Missouri. She was one of the founders of the literary journal River Styx and a contributing editor for Sculpture magazine. She has conducted interviews with various literary and artistic figures, including Margaret Atwood, Eavan Boland, William Cass, Christopher Merrill, and Quincy Troupe. She has written numerous reviews and is author of The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. She and Kathryn Van Spanckeren are editors of Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms, a collection of critical essays on Atwood's work.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Jan Garden Castro, 2005.

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Scope and content

Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and papers relating to Margaret Atwood and the book Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms.

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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://aeon.library.utoronto.ca

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  • English

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    Description identifier

    CA OTUTF MS COLL00436

    Institution identifier

    Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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