Scope and Contents
The papers include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, television scripts and memorabilia. There is also a collection of books that McGivern wrote, including others that she compiled or edited.
Dates
- 1938-1997
Creator
- Daly, Maureen, 1921-2006 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Maureen Daly was born in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland in 1921 and grew up in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin. She attended Rosary College and began her writing career as a teenage reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She married William P. McGivern (a writer) in 1946. Daly became an author of fiction, but also continued to write nonfiction for newspapers and magazines and also compiled and edited collections of short stories by other authors. Her young adult novel, Seventeenth Summer, published in 1942, was an immediate success and launched her career as a writer.
Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.
Extent
6 linear feet (5 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Maureen Daly (1921-) wrote fiction, both short stories and novels, and nonfiction articles and books. She is credited with establishing the category of Young Adult fiction with her novel Seventeenth Summer, first published in 1942. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, reviews, interviews, and tearsheets.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series:
Series: Correspondence
Subseries: Business
Subseries: Personal
Subseries: Fan Letters
Series: Manuscripts
Subseries: Book Length Manuscripts
Subseries: Short Stories
Subseries: Non-fiction Articles
Subseries: Television Scripts
Series: Newspaper and Magazine Material
Subseries: Interviews
Subseries: Magazine Columns and Tearsheets
Subseries: Newspaper Columns and Clippings
Subseries: Notes and Reviews
Subseries: Miscellaneous
Series: Addenda
Subseries: Correspondence
Subseries: Manuscripts
Subseries: Miscellaneous
FA Fixing
4 boxes in location, though there are noted to be 5 boxes. Addenda 1979 is said to be in Box 4, but it is not. Box 4 is filled with books. Addenda 1997 is one folder and was added to Box 3. Box 3 also has a few books that are not identified in the FA.
Processing Information
Collection processed by processing staff, 1979.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Children and Youth Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Daly, Maureen, 1921-2006
- Daly, Maureen, 1921-2006
- Journalism Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Literature Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Manuscripts for publication Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Women Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Women authors, American -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women journalists -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Young adult fiction, American -- Authorship Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Maureen Daly Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by processing staff
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
