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Nora Roberts Papers

Call Number

TAM.198

Date

circa 1950s-1990s, inclusive

Creator

Roberts, Nora Ruth

Extent

0.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

Nora Ruth Roberts (b. ca. 1941) is an author of works on radical women writers, including Meridel Le Sueur, writings on gender, and several novels and short stories, some autobiographical in nature. She grew up as a Trotskyist and was a member of the Socialist Workers Party's affiliated youth organization, the Young Socialist Alliance. The collection contains typescripts of her fiction and non-fiction writings, poetry, reviews, a few letters, YSA internal documents, an anonymous book length typescript, "A Study of Capital," an autobiographical typescript by the late Trotskyist Daniel Rosenshine [1946-1993/4], and a small file on Eugene Dennett, a Seattle worker called before HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee).

Historical/Biographical Note

Nora Ruth Roberts (b. ca. 1941) is an author of works on radical women writers, including Meridel Le Sueur, writings on gender, and several novels and short stories, some autobiographical in nature, describing Roberts' Trotskyist upbringing (her parents were members of the Socialist Workers Party) and her activity in the Young Socialist Alliance (founded in 1960), which was affiliated with the SWP.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains typescripts of some of her unpublished and published fiction and non-fiction writings, poems, reviews, a few letters, internal documents from the Young Socialist Alliance, an anonymous book length typescript for the Trotsky School (SWP New York City Branch), titled "A Study of Capital," another anonymous typescript "Formal Logic and Dialectics," and a typescript on dialectical materialism by Roberts. Some of the fiction is autobiographical, focusing on Roberts' growing up in her particular radical milieu. The non-fiction writings are about women authors, including Meridel Le Sueur, and gender issues. There is also an autobiographical typescript by the late Trotskyist Daniel Rosenshine [1946-1993/4], who had been a member of the SWP and the YSA, and a small file on Eugene Dennett, a Seattle worker called before HUAC (the House Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. Congress).

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection created by Nora Roberts was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Nora Roberts Papers; TAM 198; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials found in repository; provenance is unknown. The accession number related to this collection is 1950.121.

Collection processed by

Tamiment staff

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Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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