Collection Overview
Jenkins, Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh Jenkins
Papers1975-1987
MS 252
3 boxes
(2.25 linear ft.)
English
Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Professor, theater; Actor. Source material and correspondence relating to her book Women in American Theatre; also scripts, ephemera, periodicals, essays, clippings, and correspondence related to women's theatres around the world; and correspondence, printed material, and drafts for the Women in the Performing Arts newsletter.
Biographical Note
Linda Walsh Jenkins was a tenured professor in the Theatre department at Northwestern University at the time this collection was donated. She was co-editor of
Women in the American theatre: careers, images, movements: an illustrated anthology and sourcebook with Helen Kroch Chinoy (1981) and was an active member of the women's theatre community through the 1970s and 1980s. She had a son in 1971 and raised him as a single parent in Evanston, Il. No further biographical information is available.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers include source material and correspondence relating to her book
Women in American Theatre. There are also scripts, ephemera, periodicals, essays, clippings, and correspondence related to women's theatres around the world, as well as correspondence, printed material, and drafts for the newsletter, Women in the Performing Arts.
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the
Sophia Smith Collection.
This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be
difficult to use.
Linda Walsh Jenkin owns copyright to her unpublished writings. Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Preferred Citation
Please use the following format when citing materials from this
collection:
Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College,
Northampton, Mass.
Linda Walsh Jenkins Papers donated her Papers to the Sophia Smith
Collection in 1988 and 1989.
Preliminary processing done by Annie-Sage Whitehurst, Fraenkel intern, 2009.
Feminist theater--United States--History--Sources
Women in the theater--United States--History--Sources
Women dramatists, American--20th century--Biography--Sources
Jenkins, Linda Walsh
Chinoy Helen Krich
Related materials are in the Helen Chinoy Papers in the Sophia Smith
Collection and in the Faculty Files of the Smith College Archives.
Women in Performing Arts newsletter
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1-3
Background materials: notes, drafts, correspondence, manuscripts, press releases, mailing lists, printed material, and copies of newsletters 1975-82
1
4-7
General: correspondence, clippings, press releases, newsletters 1973-85
1
8
Women's Studies (including Smith College): printed material, periodicals, correspondence, draft articles 1975
1
9
"Assignment D": Correspondence, clippings and press releases 1978-81
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10
Suzanne Buton and Susan Stone 1975-82
1
11
Joanne Hamlin (script) 1975
1
12
Miscellaneous
Women in American Theatre
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13-17
Correspondence, contracts, and contacts list (includes Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection, Helen Chinoy, and Chinoy's Rally Day speech, Smith College 1983) 1974-86
1
18
Correspondence, printed materials, clippings, and transcripts of interviews with Judith Malina, Peggy Shaw, and "R.B."'s interview with Lois Weaver 1984-87
1
19
General: correspondence and printed materials 1986
2
1-5
General: source materials, correspondence, speeches, essays, drafts, mailings from theatres (includes Deborah Lubar scripts, transcript of Lillian Hellman and Bill Moyers interview 1971-88
2
6-10
Mailing lists, contacts, correspondence, returned mail, and printed materials 1971-88
Scripts
2
11
"Finalists, top 5" (with correspondence from One Act Theatre and scripts by O-Lan Shepard, Denize Springer, Irene Oppenheim, Grace McKeaney, Susan Narus 1977-81, n.d.
2
12-13
"One Act Plays, numbers 1-16 (Susan Kennedy, Kitty Tsui, Tobey Chappell, Toni Press, Sylvia Bigelow, Annawin Shamas, June Griffin, Kathleen Magill, Theresa Mayer Hammond, Susan E. Spoth, Janice Penkalski 1979-81, n.d.
2
14
Marijane Datsun: "Last Acts," press releases and clippingsn.d.
2
15
Martha Boesing: 2 scripts 1974
Miscellaneous
2
16
"Old Wives Tale": script by Linda Jenkins, with correspondence with Lilith, a Woman's Theatre 1984-85
2
17
"Rated X" (film): correspondence, abstract, and endorsements 1984
2
17
Nancy Rhodes: correspondence and copy of "A Study on Employment Discrimination Against Women Playwrights and Directors in Non Profit Theatre" 1976
2
18
Christine Westwood (Women's theatre in Australia): correspondence, press releases and ephemera 1977-78
2
19-24
Correspondence, mailings, press releases, biographies, posters, photographs, playbills, and other printed material from theatre groups (includes Washington American Feminist Theatre, Chicago Theatre Group Inc., American Theatre Association, At The Foot of the Mountain, Plutonium Players, Women's Collage Theatre, Women's International Theatre Alliance, Lilith, a Woman's Theatre, Theatre Rhinocerous) 1976-89
3
1-6
Correspondence, mailings, press releases, biographies, posters, photographs, playbills, and other printed material from theatre groups 1976-89
3
7
Dance: printed material
3
8
Miscellaneous clippings 1977-80