Maine Women Writers Collection 60th Anniversary

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  A Broken Lily - May Morning

  Photograph of an illuminated page from a book of Celia Thaxter poetry. Created for the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.

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  Dorothy Healy, Grace Dow, and others

  Dorothy Healy, Grace Dow, and three others are pictured in this photograph from the 1950s. Created for the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.

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  Dorothy Healy with Millay nightgown

  Dorothy Healy shows off a nightgown that once belonged to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Created for the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.

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  First Fig

  Edna St. Vincent Millay quote, from A Few Figs From Thistles, commemorating the first volume acquired by the newly-formed Maine Women Writers Collection.

  Text on panel: "The first acquisition of the new Maine Women Writers Collection was Edna St. Vincent Millay’s slim volume of poetry A Few Figs from Thistles (1923).

  First Fig
  My candle burns at both ends;
  It will not last the night;
  But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
  It gives a lovely light!"

  Created for the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.

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  If women don't tell how women feel…

  Quote from a letter written by Glady Hasty Carroll to Bradford Dudley Daziel.

  "If women don’t tell how women feel, and why they feel that way, and how the world and the future look to them, how is anybody going to know? And how much sweet mystery, true enchantment, bewitching diversity, and superb innovation will be lost to the world!”

  Created for the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.

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  Painted vase

  Vase painted by Celia Thaxter with pink beach roses, green foliage, a yellow, orange and black butterfly and a poem.

  On display in the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.

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  On behalf of the English Department, thank you...

  Letter from Grace Dow to President Blewett upon the creation of the Maine Women Writers Collection.

  Created for the 60th anniversary exhibit on display in the Portland Campus library in 2019.