ST@NZ@ League's Electronic Newsletter

November 2009

NEWS FROM THE FEMINIST CAUCUS
By Anne Burke, Chair.

Heather Spears sent me her essay on Anne Marriott.  As Heather writes, the original typewritten copy has endnotes galore for all the quotations from Anne’s poems and from critics.  Heather would prefer to omit these.

I am not sure how to insert [Anne Marriott’s] commentary scrawled in the margins, at present it is in bold type, with my own comments on her comments in brackets.  I have not fooled around with my text, which strikes me at a distance—it was written in 1984—as somewhat naive and pretentious.  It’s her comments  that are important now!  I enclose images of some of them as they appeared on my ms. and hope you will illustrate the essay with at least one—her lovely, scrawly hand!

                                         (email, October 26, 2009)

What is the “Women As Persons”, a Woman Scholar Series?  I rediscovered this synopsis in preparing my papers for the National Archives in Ottawa:  October 18, 1979 was the fiftieth year of celebration of the “Famous Five” in which five Alberta women won a legal case to recognize women as persons.  In order to celebrate this occasion, a planning committee of Faculty Women at the University of Calgary arranged to celebrate, by bringing to the campus outstanding women scholars during 1979-80.  I had just moved from Vancouver to Calgary, with my Ph.D. Studies in hand. For full report click here.