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[Letter from Robert Butler to Barbara Jordan - December 1977]
No full textLetter from Robert Butler to Barbara Jordan discussing his career goals, how he wants to be a congressional intern for summer of 1978, and urging her to not retire from congress
'A date with Barbara': paracosms of the self in biographies of Barbara Newhall Follett
No full textIn 1927, 13-year-old Barbara Newhall Follett published her first book, the critically acclaimed novel, The House Without Windows and Eepersip's Life There.
Twelve years later, on December 7, 1939, 25-year-old Barbara quarrelled with her husband and left her apartment in Boston with $30 in her pocket, and a notebook. She was never seen again.
The House Without Windows is set in a paracosm (Farksolia) she invented, and ends with the metamorphosis of the titular character into a 'fairy-a wood nymph … invisible for ever to all mortals, save those few who have minds to believe, eyes to see'.
In Barbara's (auto)biography, The Unconscious Autobiography of a Child Genius (1966), written by Harold Grier McCurdy 'in collaboration with Helen Follett' (Barbara's mother), the authors wonder: 'Can we be far wrong in substituting Barbara's name for Eepersip's in the closing scenes of [House Without Windows]?
In this paper, I grapple with the formal and ethical challenges of writing about Barbara Newhall Follett, and the ways her family and others have approached the problem of writing her unresolved life story: a child raised and educated in solitude, a celebrated 'natural' child author, a young woman whose disappearance remains unsolved. The paper will explore the ways in which adults write the stories of children's lives, as nostalgia and fable, as fairytale and paracosmic narrative, and the ways in which Barbara's biographers have, consciously and unconsciously, created biographical concordances, or paracosms of the self, in seeking to make meaning of her life's story
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[Dr. Barbara Butler portrait photo 6]
No full textPhotograph of Dr. Barbara Butler, the Museum Director and faculty member of the Sociology and Anthropology department, sitting for a portrait. She is wearing a horizontally striped shirt with big buttons on the front
Barbara James
No full textDate:1943Barbara was born in Holdredge, Nebraska in the United States of America in 1943. In 1960 she arrived in Darwin working in a variety of occupations such as a journalist, historian, author, activist, advocate and editor. Barbara wrote 13 books including "No Man's Land" which explored the contributions of women in the Northern Territory. She also received a number of awards including 2001 NT Heritage Award, the 2000 NT Literary Essay Awards and the Chief Minister's Women's Achievement Award in 1999.JournalistHistorianAuthorActivistEditorAmerica
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[Dr. Barbara Butler portrait photo 2]
No full textPhotograph of Dr. Barbara Butler, the Museum Director and faculty member of the Sociology and Anthropology department, sitting for a portrait. She is wearing a horizontally striped shirt with big buttons on the front
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[Dr. Barbara Butler portrait photo 4]
No full textPhotograph of Dr. Barbara Butler, the Museum Director and faculty member of the Sociology and Anthropology department, sitting for a portrait. She is wearing a horizontally striped shirt with big buttons on the front
Barbara\u27s Fart Creates a Fracas
No full textWe read address, swerved, veered car at West Exeter Street; we were at Barbara\u27s fete, as were Vera, Bert, Bart, Dave, Fred, Sara, Steve. Actress Barbara, a faded stage star, fretted re: fat, crafted decreased-stew, beer bread, watercress, grated feta, brew, sweet dessert served were fat-free
Designer: from author to creative commons
No full textThe essay explores the transformations that have occurred in the role of design, from authorship to networking, sharing and opensource modes
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[Dr. Barbara Butler portrait photo 5]
No full textPhotograph of Dr. Barbara Butler, the Museum Director and faculty member of the Sociology and Anthropology department, sitting for a portrait. She is wearing a horizontally striped shirt with big buttons on the front
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[Dr. Barbara Butler portrait photo 1]
No full textPhotograph of Dr. Barbara Butler, the Museum Director and faculty member of the Sociology and Anthropology department, sitting for a portrait. She is wearing a horizontally striped shirt with big buttons on the front
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