Marilyn Arnold papers, 1860s-2016

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Arnold, Marilyn, 1935-
Title
Marilyn Arnold papers
Dates
1860s-2016 (inclusive)
Quantity
36 linear feet, (60 boxes)
Collection Number
ACCN 2857
Summary
The Marilyn Arnold papers (1860s-2016) consist of her scholarly research and writings, specifically on her authoritative work regarding Willa Cather. The collection contains numerous writings including published articles and books on many topics, both fiction and non-fiction. Arnold is an emeritus professor of English at Brigham Young University. She also served as assistant to former BYU president Dallin H. Oaks, director of the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, and dean of Graduate Studies.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Marilyn Arnold is an emeritus professor of English at Brigham Young University. Arnold was born November 26, 1935 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Henry Lynn and Rhoda Jane Arnold. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1957 and 1958 and she taught at BYU from 1958-1961. In 1968, Arnold obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Arnold became Assistant Dean of Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1962-1964 and then Assistant Director of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1964-1965. She pursued graduate work in English until 1968 and then returned to Utah to accept the position of Assistant Professor of English at Weber State College, Ogden, Utah, from 1968-1969. After the academic year, Arnold obtained a position at Brigham Young University as an Assistant Professor from 1969-1975. Later, she served as assistant to President Dallin H. Oaks from 1975-1979 and as Dean of Graduate Studies beginning in 1985. She was promoted to Professor of English in 1980 and was also the director of the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature at Brigham Young University from 1979-1982.

Arnold is not only known as an internationally recognized scholar on the writings of Willa Cather, but also as a widely published writer and speaker in academic circles. She has also authored several nonacademic books, including three novels that grow out of her spiritual roots and her deep attachment to the desert country of southern Utah. Her numerous publications include Willa Cather: A Reference Guide (1986); Willa Cather's Short Fiction (1986); with John March, A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather (1993); Desert Song (1998); Song of Hope (1999); Sky Full of Ribbons (2000); Fields of Clover (2002); with Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill and Kristen Tracy, A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (2002); The Classmates (2003); and Minding Mama (2004); as well as Sweet Is the Word: Reflections on the Book of Mormon—Its Narrative, Teachings, and People (1996), Pure Love: Readings on Sixteen Enduring Virtues (1997), and, with Maurine Ozment and Lisa Farr, Sacred Hymns of the Book of Mormon (2009).

Arnold is an avid tennis player, an outdoor enthusiast and was M.V.P. in basketball in the state of Wisconsin. She enjoys mountain climbing, skiing and hiking.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Marilyn Arnold papers consist of her scholarly research and writings, specifically on her authoritative work regarding Willa Cather. Also included in the papers are numerous writings including published articles and books on many topics, both fiction and non-fiction. Arnold is a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and many of her writings discuss this topic.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection has been arranged into eleven series: I. Personal materials; II. Professional academic materials; III. LDS Church materials; IV. Writings; V. General writings; VI. Writings and research materials regarding Willa Cather; VII. Writings and research materials on Eudora Welty; VIII. Writings and research materials on Flannery O'Connor; IX. General research materials; X. Oversize materials; and XI. Addendum

Acquisition Information

Donated by Marilyn Arnold in 2015 and 2016.

Processing Note

Processed by Betsey Welland in 2015.

Addendum processed by Sean Taylor in 2016.

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Separated Materials

Photographs and audiovisual materials were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

I:  Personal materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Biographical sketches
 1995-2013
1 2
Curriculum vitae
 2015
1 3
Retirement announcement and correspondence
 1991-1992
1 4
Articles about Marilyn Arnold written by others
 1975-2003
1 5
Diplomas
 1953; 1955; 1958; 1968
2 1-3
Correspondence
 1969-2014
2 4-5
Fan mail
 1998-2010
2 6
Correspondence with Madeleine Doran
 1970-1975
2 7
Correspondence with Emma Lou Thayne and general materials
 1970-2008
2 8
Correspondence with Terry Tempest Williams
 1988-1996
A: Student notebooks and graduate school papers
Box Folder
3 1
American Literature class notebook
 undated
3 2
American Novel class notebook
University of Wisconsin
undated
3 3
Chaucer class notebook
University of Wisconsin
undated
3 4
Elizabethan Drama class notebook
University of Wisconsin
1966
3 5
History of Language class notebook
University of Wisconsin
undated
3 6
Medieval Literature class notebook
Brigham Young University
1966
3 7
Milton class notebooks
University of Wisconsin
undated
3 8
Old English class notebook
University of Wisconsin
undated
4 1
Shakespeare class notebooks
University of Wisconsin
1965-1966
4 2
Spokesmen of American Ideals class notebook
 undated
4 3
Structure of English class notebook
University of Wisconsin
1965
4 4
Twentieth Century Seminar class notes
 1965-1966
4 5
Whitman class notebook
University of Wisconsin
undated
4 6
"The Accessible God"
Written for English 435.
circa 1965-1967
4 7
"Arthur Gordon Pym in Suspension"
Written for English 621.
undated
4 8
"Redemption for an Alien in Roth's Call It Sleep"
Written for English 952.
1966
4 9
"The Roles of Flamineo and Bosola"
Written for a course taught by Dr. Mark Eccles.
1966
4 10
"The Writing of Two Grammars"
 circa 1965-1967

II:  Professional academic materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: BYU, administrative and general materials
Box Folder
5 1
Review of the Bachelor of Independent Studies Degree
 1992-1995
5 2
Review of Continuing Education Programs
 1992; 1994-1995
5 3
University Honors Program
 1978-1982
5 4
The Women's Research Institute, proposal and general materials
 1992-1995
5 5
Continuing Education courses teaching materials
 1993-2004
5 6
Letters of recommendation written by Marilyn Arnold for others
 1986-2008
5 7
Alumni Association Board of Directors
 1987-1989
5 8
Inventory of books
Many of the books listed in this inventory were later donated to Dixie College. Included in this folder is a floppy disc containing a copy of the inventory.
1988
B: Teaching materials and lecture notes regarding American and international authors
Box Folder
6 1
James Baldwin
 1975
6 2
Saul Bellow
6 3
Ray Bradbury
 1973; 1976
6 4
William C. Bryant
6 5
Kate Chopin
6 6
James F. Cooper
6 7
Emily Dickinson
6 8
Theodore Dreiser
6 9
Jonathan Edwards
6 10
T. S. Eliot
6 11
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 12
William Faulkner
6 13
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6 14
Benjamin Franklin
6 15
Harold Frederic
6 16
John Gardner
6 17
Ellen Glasgow
6 18
Nathaniel Hawthorne
6 19
Ernest Hemingway
6 20
Henry James
6 21
Sinclair Lewis
6 22
Bernard Malamud
6 23
Carson McCullers
6 24
Herman Melville
6 25
Arthur Miller
6 26
Wright Morris
6 27
Frank Norris
6 28
Tillie Olsen
6 29
Eugene O'Neill
6 30
Thomas Paine
6 31
Walker Percy
6 32
Edgar Allen Poe
6 33
Katherine Anne Porter
6 34
Marilynne Robinson
6 35
Henry Roth
6 36
Philip Roth
6 37
John Steinbeck
6 38
Edith Wharton
6 39
Walt Whitman
6 40
Tennessee Williams
7 1
Albert Camus
7 2
John Milton
7 3
William Shakespeare
7 4
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
C: Teaching materials and lecture notes
Box Folder
7 5
Archetypes
7 6
American Fiction, 1940s-1970s
7 7
American Novel - Chronology and Background
7 8
American Romanticism
7 9
British and European Writers
7 10
Colonial Literature
7 11
Drama
7 12
English Literature
7 13
Introduction to Fiction - Short Stories
7 14
Literature Critics, Criticism and Theory
7 15
Literature - General Poetry
7 16
Modern Literature
7 17
Modern Literature - Poets
7 18
Naturalism
7 19
Puritans
7 20
Radical American Novels and Writers of the 1920s and 1930s
7 21
Realism
7 22
Papers by graduate students regarding the Modern Literature Period
 1976
7 23
Creative writing example by Arnold's nephew
D: Lectures and addresses given at BYU and BYU-Idaho
Box Folder
8 1
"Anatomy of a Woman Artist: Willa Cather"
Presentation to the Women's Research Institute.
1991
8 2
"At the Mercy of Words"
Flea Market Lecture at BYU.
1976
8 3-4
"'Biting Sour Apples in the Gumwood Shade': Women and the Function of Memory"
Alice Louise Reynolds Lecture.
1990
8 5
"Bodies and Books"
Physical Education majors program address.
1976
8 6
"Book Learning"
Commencement banquet address.
1983
8 7
"The Book of Mormon: Passport to Discipleship"
Neil A. Maxwell Lecture.
2010-2011
8 8
"Confessions of an English Teacher"
Physical Education majors program address.
1975
8 9
"The Discovery of Character in the Book of Mormon"
Know Your Religion Series.
1994
8 10
"From Blossoms to Blacktop: The Spiritual Crisis in American Literature"
Alumni College lecture.
1976
8 11
"'I Shall Never Know': The Eye that Sees Twelve Hours"
Phi Kappa Phi lectures.
1992; 2003
8 12
"A Life and a Scripture: Two Sermons on Excellence"
8 13
"Literary Laughter: The Saving Humor of Faith"
BYU Forum address and Menlo Park address.
1976; 1979
8 14
"Making Your Life an Open Book"
Phi Kappa Phi lecture.
2004
8 15
"The Novel Method of Fiction"
BYU Flea Market lecture.
1986
9 1
"Of Poetry and Dogfish: Late Thoughts on Teaching and Learning"
Forum address.
1983
9 2
"The Power of the Word"
Alumni College lecture.
1981
9 3
"Publishing as a Literary Scholar"
BYU-Idaho presentation.
2008
9 4
"...and Replenish"
Devotional Assembly address at BYU-Idaho.
circa 1970s-1980s
9 5
"Untraveled Path"
Graduate Education workshop address.
1987
9 6
"When is Pornography not Pornography? Or, Why Am I Allowed to Read Shakespeare and the Bible, but Told to Stay Away from R-rated Movies?"
Flea Market lecture.
1980
9 7
"Wonder and Wisdom"
Humanities convocation lecture.
1992
9 8
"'Words, Words, Words': Hugh Nibley on the Book of Mormon"
Hugh Nibley Centennial Lecture.
2010
9 9
Commencement address and drafts
 1989; 1992
9 10
Continuing Education presentation
 1995
9 11
Education Week lectures
 1997
9 12
Founder's Day, appreciation to the delegates address
 1975
9 13
Freshmen orientation presentation
 1978
9 14
Graduate Studies Workshop addresses
 1987-1991
E: BYU Women's Conference presentations
Box Folder
10 1
"By Knowledge Shall the Chambers Be Filled"
 1989
10 2
"Discovering the Masterpiece"
 1984
10 3
"Great Literature: Seeking the Virtuous, Lovely, or Praiseworthy"
 2007
10 4
"Faith: The Ultimate Answer"
 1982
10 5
"Looking at the Masterpieces"
 1980
10 6
"Poet on the Edge"
 circa 1980s
10 7
"Pornography, Romance and the Paradox of Freedom"
 1981
10 8
"The Turning of Hearts: Great Lessons in Human Sympathy from the Book of Mormon"
 1995
10 9
"Wherefore, Lift Up Thy Heart and Rejoice"
 1976
10 10
"Willa Cather: Finding a Voice in Art"
 1992
10 11
"Women's Issues: What Are They?"
 1978
10 12
"Writing is Believing: Opening the Mind to Spiritual Understanding"
 1996
10 13
Women's Conference reunion materials
 1996
F: General presentations and talks
Box Folder
11 1
"Art and Soul: Lessons from Willa Cather for Mormon Writers, Critics, and Audiences"
Keynote address at the Association of Mormon Letters Conference.
2003
11 2
"Babbitt and the Language of Hyperbole"
Presented for the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
11 3
"Borderland Convergence in Wright Morris's The Works of Love"
Presented at the Western Literature Association Conference.
1989
11 4
"Cultural Awareness and Human Rights in Utah: A Search for Understanding"
Presented at the Utah Endowment for the Humanities Conference.
circa 1980s
11 5
"Doctorow's Hard Times: A Sermon on the Failure of Faith"
Presented at the Western Literature Association Conference.
1983
11 6
"Fiction of the 1960s: Poe Revisited"
Presented at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
1977
11 7
"The Jews as Bad Angel and Good Angel in Bellow's Seize the Day"
Presented at the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
11 8
"The Myth of the Godless City: A Twentieth Century Reversal"
Presented at the Northwest Conference on Christianity and Literature.
1981
11 9
"The Old Doubt and the New Quest for Faith in Twentieth Century American Literature"
Presented at the Utah Academy Symposium on Modern Literature.
11 10
"Philip Roth: Forsaker of the Faith"
Presented at the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
1984
11 11
"Redemptive Themes and Images in Some Contemporary Novels"
Presented at the Sunstone Symposium.
1983
11 12
"Twentieth-century American Fiction--What Is It?"
Presented at the Utah Academy Symposium on Modern Literature.
11 13
"Walker Percy's The Second Coming: A Religious Testament of Life"
Presented at the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
1983
11 14
"Walking the Tightrope: Mormon Writers and Their Audiences"
Panel discussion at the Association for Mormon Letters annual meeting.
2002
11 15
"Willa Cather: The Artist and the Village"
Dixie State College Forum presentation.
2002
11 16
"Women and Values, or Suggestions about Cleaning Our Mental Closets"
Dixie State College presentation.
1977
11 17
Address to the English Department of Dixie State College
 2007
11 18
Utah Valley State University presentations
This folder includes Arnold's presentation titled, "The Power of One: A How-to Kit for Changing the World" and "Is There Life After Education?".
1998-2000
11 19
General presentation notes and materials
 1975-2006
G: Community presentations, talks and volunteer work
Box Folder
12 1
"Ethical Decisions: What Belongs in the Classroom and What Doesn't"
Censorship and values presentation given at the Salt Lake Library.
1986
12 2
"If the Shoe Fits, Change It"
Alumni College Lecture, Ogden, Utah.
1978
12 3
"Images of Women: Beyond the Stereotypes"
Utah Humanities Council Symposium presentation.
1980
12 4
"Living with Joy"
Baccalaureate address at Viewmont High School.
1977
12 5
"My Cockeyed Perspective on Utah Folks"
St. George Book Festival presentation.
2007
12 6
"Telling True Lies about Dixie"
St George Tabernacle Lecture Series.
2000
12 7
"Willa Cather and the West"
St. George Book Festival presentation.
2007
12 8
"With One Eye on the Pot and the Other on New York, a Writer Might Miss the Boat"
Heritage Writers Guild presentation.
2003
12 9
Celebrity Concert Series
 2005-2007
12 10
Ogden High School reunion address
 2003
12 11
One Book, One Community Program
 2006
12 12
St. George Book Festival
 2006-20011
12 13
Utah Humanities Council, Speakers Bureau
 1993-2010

III:  LDS Church materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Talks and presentations
Box Folder
13 1
"The Inhuman Race"
Presented at the Young Adult Multi-Regional Conference.
1978
13 2
"Love, Honor, and Take Out the Garbage"
Presented at the Dixie State College Fireside.
2005
13 3
"Loving the Book of Mormon: A Personal Journey"
Presented at the Bloomington Hills Stake Relief Society Fireside.
2012
13 4
"The Parable of the Sunglasses"
Presented at the Buena Vista Stake Women's Conference.
2006
13 5
"Peripheral Vision: Writers in the International Church"
 1982
13 6
"A Poet of Conscience"
Salt Lake City Relief Society address.
1982
13 7
"The Writer's Craft: Delight in the Ordinary"
General Relief Society panel discussion.
13 8
Fireside talks
 1976-1978
13 9
Gunlock Ward Relief Society play production materials
 2004-2005
13 10
Relief Society talks and presentations
 1989-2011
13 11
Sacrament meeting talks
 1970-2013
13 12
Speech for Janet Wheeler Evans funeral
 2011
13 13
General talks and presentations
 1975-2014
B: Church lesson plans and notes
Box Folder
14 1
Book of Mormon class teaching notes and materials
 2005-2010
14 2
Gospel doctrine class
 2000-2001; 2004
14 3
New Testament lesson plans
 1991-2005
14 4
Old Testament lesson plans
 2002
14 5
Relief Society Courses of Study
Arnold chaired the committee that wrote the cultural refinement lessons along with writing some of the lessons herself.
1981-1982
14 6
Relief Society lesson notes
 2010-2015
14 7
Relief Society literacy program
 2000
14 8
Visiting teaching lesson plans
 1978
14 9
Notes taken by Arnold from a gospel class taught by Emily Linnell
 1997
14 10
Presentation idea notes and general materials

IV:  WritingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Published books
This subseries contains writing notes, book reviews, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and general publishing materials.
Box Folder
15 1
Bittersweet: A Daughter's Memoir
2010
15 2
Book of Mormon Reference Companion
Arnold was a contributor and editor of this book.
1997
15 3
The Classmates
2003-2004
15 4
Desert Song
1997-1998
16
The Eloquent God and other Book of Mormon writings
Box Folder
16 1
A Collection of Original Essays on the Book of Mormon
2011-2013
16 2
The Eloquent God: Thoughts on Divine Speech in the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price
2013
16 3
The Word of Our Eloquent God: Late Thoughts on Divine Speech in the Book of Mormon, Part I, 1 Nephi - Alma 62
2014-2015
16 4
The Word of Our Eloquent God: Late Thoughts on Divine Speech in the Book of Mormon, Part II, Helaman - Moroni
2015
16 5-9
Manuscript drafts
 2013-2015
Folder
17 1
Fields of Clover
2001-2004
17 2
From the Heart: Charity in the Book of Mormon
2010
17 3
Minding Mama
This folder also contains a CD consisting of a file of a poster.
2003-2008
18 1-3
Oops! Confessions of a Klutz
2014
19 1
Perfecting Amiable
2006-2007
19 2
Pure Love: Readings on Enduring Virtues
This folder contains a floppy disc.
1996-2013
20 1-8
Sacred Hymns of the Book of Mormon
This book was written by Marilyn Arnold and Maurine Ozment with Lisa Farr.
2006-2010
21 1
Sky Full of Ribbons
1999-2000
21 2
Song of Hope
1998-1999
21 3-7
Sweet is the Word: Reflections on the Book of Mormon
1995-2005
21 8
Unidentified Lying Objects
1997
22 1-5
Yes Mama!
2008-2013

V:  General writingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Published articles
Box Folder
23 1
"Adding to That We Already Possess"
Published in the Ensign.
1989
23 2
"After Divorce--My Ward Went the Extra Miles"
Published in the Ensign.
1975
23 3
"Art and the Noble Idea"
Published in the This People.
1981
23 4
"An Attempt to Define the Discipline of English"
 1985
23 5
"Come Cross-country Ski with Me!"
Published in the New Era.
23 6
"The Glad Surrender to Place"
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal.
1983
23 7
"Henderson's Flight to Salvation"
23 8
"History as Fate in E.L. Doctorow's Tale of a Western Town"
Published in the South Dakota Review.
1980
23 9
"John Milton: An Inspired Man"
Published in the New Era.
1976
23 10
"Literature and Belief: A Perspective"
Published in Literature and Belief.
1981
23 11
"A Look at Popular Romance Fiction"
Published in the Ensign.
1987
23 12
"Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger: A Comic Satan?"
 1970
23 13
"Milton's Accessible God: The Role of the Son in Paradise Lost"
Published in Milton Quarterly.
1973
23 14
"My Most Influential Teacher"
Published in the Church News.
1978
23 15
"The Nephi We Tend to Forget"
Published in the Ensign.
1978
23 16
"Nickel Mountain: John Gardner's Testament of Redemption"
Published in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature.
1978
23 17
"Playing Catch with the Egg"
Published in BYU Today.
1986
23 18
"A Poet of Conscience"
Published in The Sunstone Review.
1982
23 19
"Poet on the Edge"
Published in the Exponent II.
circa 1980s
23 20
"The Reconciling Borderland: Wright Morris' Exploration of the Artist's Role as Portrayed in The Works of Love"
23 21
"Rock-out with Poetry"
24 1
"The Six-Week Book of Mormon Miracle"
Published in the Ensign.
2010
24 2
"There's a Poet Inside Me"
Published in the Ensign.
1976
24 3
"Two Passages in Pierre: A Key to Melville's Method"
24 4
"Women and Men"
Published in the Daily Universe.
1979-1980
24 5
"Wright Morris' Plains Song: Woman's Search for Harmony"
 1982
24 6
Poetry writings
24 7
Articles for church publications including "question and answers"
 circa 1970s
24 8
Articles for the Strength of the Youth Series
 1991
24 9
Reviews written by Marilyn Arnold
 1989-2011
24 10
Interview notes for Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God
2008-2009
24 11
Speaker introductions by Marilyn Arnold
 1977-1991
B: Writings as contributing author
Box Folder
24 12
A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women
Arnold worked as an editor to this book along with Bonnie Ballif-Spanville and Kritin Tracy.
2001-2002
24 13
"Christmas Alone"
Written for a book published by Deseret Book.
1990
24 14
"A Descant of Praise and Thanksgiving"
Written for the book, New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community edited by Terry Tempest Williams, William B. Smart and Gibbs M. Smith.
1995-2000
24 15
"Language"
Written for the book, The Flight for Right: Strength for Youth in the Latter Days.
1992
24 16
"Living with Books"
Written for the book, Joy.
1980
24 17
"Moroni: A Singular Saint"
Written for the book, My Soul Delighteth in the Scriptures: Personal and Family Applications.
1999
24 18
"Reading and Loving Literature"
Written for the book, Blueprints for Living and also in Woman to Woman.
1980; 1986
24 19
"'To See the Game Thro', and Enjoy the Scenery"
Written for the book, Heroines of the Restoration.
1996-1997
24 20
"Unlocking the Sacred Text"
Written for the book, Expressions of Faith and then later published in the journal of Book of Mormon Studies.
1994-2000
24 21
Article contributions to The Encyclopedia of Mormonism
1991
24 22
Article and recipe contributed to Five Star Recipes from Well-Known Latter-day Saints
2002
24 23
Christmas story for This People
1986
24 24
Essay for Why I Believe
2000-2001

VI:  Writings and research materials regarding Willa CatherReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Writings by Marilyn Arnold about Willa Cather
Box Folder
25 1
Self-division and Self-unity in the Novels of Willa Cather
This is Arnold's dissertation written at the University of Wisconsin. Included in the folder are notes taken regarding conversations with key Cather people.
1968
25 2
Willa Cather: A Reference Guide
This annotated bibliography was compiled by Arnold along with Virgil Albertini, Gary Brienzo and Milton Jones. Also included in the folder are reviews, correspondence and notes.
1999
25 3
"Cather's Last Stand"
Published in the journal Research Studies.
1975
25 4
"Cather's Published 'Unpublished' Letters"
Published in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter.
1986
25 5
Coming, Willa Cather!"
Published in the journal Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
1984
25 6
"The Function of Structure in Cather's The Professor's House"
Published in the journal Colby Library Quarterly.
1975
25 7
"Humorous Criticism of Cather's Work"
Published in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter.
1986
25 8
"The Integrating Vision of Bishop Latour in Willa Cather's Death Comes to the Archbishop"
Published in the journal Literature and Belief.
1988
25 9
"My Willa Cather"
25 10
"'Of Human Bondage': Cather's Subnarrative in Sapphira and the Slave Girl"
Published in the journal The Mississippi Quarterly.
1987
25 11
"Of Mice and Mentoring"
Published in the book Teaching the Works of Willa Cather.
2005; 2009
26 1
"One of Ours: Willa Cather's Losing Battle"
Published in the journal Western American Literature.
1978
26 2
"The Other Side of Willa Cather"
Published in the journal Nebraska History.
1987
26 3
"The Question of Willa Cather's Nostalgia: A Study in Ambivalence"
Published in the journal Research Studies.
1981
26 4
"Teaching Through Willa Cather's Short Stories"
26 5
"Two of the Lost"
First published in the book Willa Cather: Modern Critical Views edited by Harold Bloom.
1985
26 6
"Willa Cather After All"
Published in Willa Cather and the Culture of Belief.
2002
26 7
"Willa Cather and the Call to Art"
Published in the Magazine BYU Today.
1992
26 8
"Willa Cather: Sentence by Sentence"
Published in the journal Teaching Cather.
2001
26 9
"Willa Cather's Other Story of the Southwest"
Published in the journal Southwestern American Literature.
1993
26 10
Foreword to Willa Cather: A Memoir
1992
26 11
Willa Cather's Short Fiction, reviews and publication materials
 1984-1987
26 12
Willa Cather biographies written by Arnold for various publications
 1980-1990
26 13
Introductions and forewords written for the books of others
 1987-1991
26 14
General writings
 1976
27 1-6
Materials related to the publication of John March's A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather, edited by Marilyn Arnold
This box contains correspondence, grant proposal materials, diskettes, research materials and notes.
1986-1996
B: Conference presentations and papers
Box Folder
28 1
"The Allusive Willa Cather"
Presented at the Fifth International Willa Cather Seminar and later published in the journal Cather Studies.
1993
28 2
"'Before Breakfast' and Willa Cather's Grand Manan"
Presented for the Northeast Modern Literature Association.
1990
28 3
"Cather's Last Three Stories: A Testament of Life and Endurance"
Presented at a conference and later published in the journal Great Plains Quarterly.
1984
28 4
"Cather's 'The Way of the World': An Early Glimpse of the Lost Frontier"
Presented for the Western Literature Association.
1983
28 5
"Confounded Again: Willa Cather's Poor Pitiful Professors"
Presented for the Western Literature Association.
1992
28 6
"The Desert as Sanctuary in Willa Cather"
Presented for the Western Literature Association.
1971
28 7
"The Eastern Perspective in Willa Cather's Short Stories"
Presented at the conference, Willa Cather: The Northeast Perspective.
28 8
"Eco-candor in Willa Cather's Letters; or, New York Gets a Bad Rap"
Presented at the 8th International Willa Cather Seminar.
2000
28 9
"Edith Lewis's Memoir of Willa Cather"
Presented for the Western Literature Association.
1988
28 10
"Jim Burden vs. Willa Cather: The Double Views of Antonia Shimerada"
Presented for the Western Literature Association.
1984
28 11
"My Willa Cather"
Presented for the Historical Archive Association and later published in the journal Southwestern American Literature.
29 1
"Poses of the Mind, Paeans of the Heart: Willa Cather's Letter of Life in the Provinces"
Presented for the 3rd International Cather Symposium.
1988
29 2
"Seeing Willa Cather Through Her Short Fiction"
Presented for the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast.
1985
29 3
"Shadows in Willa Cather's Short Fiction"
Presented for the American Literature Association.
1992
29 4
"The Southwest Story Willa Cather Never Wrote--or Did She?"
Presented at the 4th National Willa Cather Seminar.
1990; 1993
29 5
"The Surprising Willa Cather: A Second Look at Her Short Fiction"
Presented for the Northeast Modern Language Association.
1983
29 6
"Willa Cather and the Edenic Myth"
Presented for the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast.
1983
29 7
"Willa Cather and the Short Story: The Forgotten Gems"
Presented at the 2nd National Willa Cather Seminar.
1983
29 8
"Willa Cather's Artistic 'Radicalism'"
Presented for the Western Literature Association and later published in the journal The CEA Critic.
1986
29 9
"Willa Cather's Letters to Zoe Akins"
Presented at the 3rd National Willa Cather Seminar.
1987
29 10
"Willa Cather's Superior Women: Myth vs. Feminism"
Presented for the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
1975
29 11
Cather's Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's Cather Conference materials
 1996
29 12
General presentations
 1985-1993
C: Research materials collected by Arnold about Willa Cather
Box Folder
30 1-2
Correspondence
 1978-2010
30 3
Correspondence with Mildred R. Bennett
 1980-1989
30 4
Correspondence with Helen Cather Southwick
 1984-1989
30 5
Cather bibliography materials
30 6
Research notes
 circa 1970s-1980s
30 7
Teaching notes
30 8
Notes on the humor of Cather
30 9
Susan J. Rosowski materials
Obituary and memorial service materials.
2004-2005
30 10
Cather film project proposal with Richard Long
 1989-1990
31 1
Ruth Webb reminiscence
 1992
31 2
Personal recollections about Willa Cather by others
 1925-1981
31 3
Writings by Willa Cather
This folder consists of photocopied research materials kept by Arnold.
1904-1965
31 4
Research on Willa Cather and Georgia O'Keeffe
 1987-1992
31 5
Research on Willa Cather's Nebraska
 1971-1999
31 6
Research on Willa Cather's Santa Fe, New Mexico
 1988-1990
31 7
Research on Willa Cather's Virginia
 1911-1988
31 8
Willa Cather commemorative stamp
 1973
32 1
Requests for copies
 1974-1988
32 2
News clippings about Willa Cather
 1927-1991
32 3-4
General research materials
 1905-2010
32 5
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation Newsletters
 1957-1994
D: Research materials collected by Arnold about Willa Cather's correspondence
This subseries focuses upon the research performed by Arnold regarding the correspondence of Willa Cather. The majority of this subseries consists of photocopied materials obtained from archival and research institutions. No photocopying of materials from other institutions is allowed.
Box
33
Note cards
Research cards revealing where Arnold read Willa Cather letters along with listing institutions where she performed research.
Folder
34 1
Indexes of Willa Cather correspondence
 1960-1994
34 2
Research regarding Zoe Akins correspondence
This folder contains notes taken while researching the Akins and Cather correspondence located at the Huntington Memorial Library in San Marino, California.
1986
34 3
Research regarding Fanny Butcher correspondence
This folder contains notes and transcripts while researching the Butcher and Cather correspondence located at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.
1995
34 4
Research regarding Edith Lewis correspondence to Pacificus Kennedy
This folder consists of photocopied correspondence from 1956 through 1965.
1956-1965
34 5
Research regarding Sinclair Lewis correspondence
This folder consists of photocopies and transcripts of correspondence.
circa 1920s-1940s
34 6
Research regarding Carrie Miner Sherwood correspondence
This folder consists of photocopies, notes, indexes, and transcripts of correspondence.
1988
34 7
Research regarding general correspondence
35 1-2
Research regarding general correspondence
E: Research materials obtained by archival or research institution
This subseries focuses upon the research performed by Arnold and was originally arranged by name of the holding institution. These boxes contain photocopies of original materials and may not be photocopied.
Box Folder
36 1
Amherst College Library
 circa 1900s-1940s; 1983
36 2-3
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
 circa 1870s-1950s; 1983
36 4
Brigham Young University
 circa 1920s-1930s; 1988
36 5
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
 1988-1990
36 6
Colby College Library
 circa 1920s-1960s; 1986
36 7
Columbia University Library
 circa 1900s-1940s; 1983
36 8
Duke University Library
 circa 1800s-1920s; 1984-1988
36 9
Guy W. Bailey Library, University of Vermont
 1983-1988
37 1
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
 1985-1986
37 2
Huntington Library
 1979; 1986
37 3-6
Houghton Library, Harvard University
 circa 1910s-1940s; 1983; 1986
38 1
Nebraska State Historical Society
 1978
38 2
Newberry Library
 1989
38 3
New York Public Library
 1983
38 4
Pierpont Morgan Library
 1983
38 5
Princeton University Library
 1988
39 1-2
University of Virginia Library
 1978
39 3
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
 1987

VII:  Writings and research materials on Eudora WeltyReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Writings and conference papers
Box Folder
40 1
"Devastating Consequences of What 'The Whole World Knows'"
Published in the journal The South Carolina Review.
1991; 1996
40 2
"The Edge of Adolescence in Eudora Welty's 'Moon Lake'"
Published in the journal The Southern Quarterly.
1990-1993
40 3
"Eudora Welty and the Cost of the Quest"
40 4
"Eudora Welty's Parody"
Published in Notes on Mississippi Writers.
1978
40 5
"Images of Memory in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter"
Published in The Southern Literary Journal.
1982
40 6
"'The Magical Percussion': Eudora Welty's Human Recital on Art and Time"
Published in the journal Southern Humanities Review.
1989
40 7
"Somnambulism in San Francisco: Eudora Welty's Western Story"
Published in The Southern Quarterly.
1989
40 8
"The Strategy of Edna Earle Ponder"
Presented for the Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller Conference. .
1987
40 9
"When Gratitude is no More: Eudora Welty's 'June Recital'"
Published in The South Carolina Review.
1981
40 10
Eudora Welty biographical sketches written by Arnold for various publications
 1982-1987
40 11
Study guide written for Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings
1989
40 12
Manuscript draft
 1987
40 13
Article draft
 1980
B: Research materials
Box Folder
41 1
Honorary doctoral degree presented to Eudora Welty
 1980
41 2
Eudora Welty correspondence
 1987-1988
41 3
Research on Welty's The Golden Apples
1981-2002
41 4
Research on Welty's Delta Wedding
1946-1985
41 5
Research on Welty's Music From Spain
1948-1972
41 6
Research on Welty's The Ponder Heart
1954; 1999
41 7
Research on Welty's The Robber Bridegroom
41 8-10
General research and notes

VIII:  Writings and research materials on Flannery O'ConnorReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Writings and conference papers about O'Connor by Arnold
Box Folder
42 1
"Sentimentalism in the Devil's Territory"
Presented at the Flannery O'Connor and the Christian Mystery Symposium held at BYU.
1995
42 2
"The Violent Bear it Away: Flannery O'Connor's Reluctant Compromise with Mercy"
Published in the journal The McNeese Review.
1981
42 3
"Wise Blood: Flannery O'Connor's Lonely Gospel of Hope"
Published in The Drew Gateway: A Journal of Comment and Criticism.
1975
B: General research materials
Box Folder
42 4
Research notes regarding O'Connor's writings
42 5
Flannery O'Connor correspondence research
 1965-1986
42 6
Bibliography
42 7
Writings by Flannery O'Connor and interview
 1965-1978
42 8
Articles about Flannery O'Connor
 1974-2009

IX:  General research materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
A: Vernice Wineera-Pere
Box
43
Writings and general materials
 1981-1982
B: Research regarding women
Box Folder
44 1
Thoughts on the concerns of Mormon women at Brigham Young University and elsewhere
This work was performed by Marilyn Arnold and the members of the Advisory Committee on Women's Concerns.
1975-1992
44 2
Research materials regarding Belle S. Spafford
 1935-1983
44 3-4
Women in church history research
 1867-1995
44 5
Elouise Bell, "The Tables Turned
 "1976
44 6
Marie Cornwall and Louise Degn, Utah Women Considered: What the Numbers Tell Us
1996
44 7
Mormon women writers
 1979
44 8
"Extreme Violence Directed at Women," Sneak Previews, transcript of show number 304
 1980-1981
C: Digital files
Box
45-46
Computer disks
D: Travel materials
Box Folder
47 1
General materials
Travel materials collected while performing research at various institutions.
1982-1989
47 2-3
Los Angeles art trips
 2004-2006

X:  Oversize materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
48-51
Scrapbooks
 1947-2013
52-54
Yearbooks
 1953
55
General materials
This box contains awards, sketches by Arnold, Willa Cather memorabilia, and other items.
1967; 1985; undated
56
Awards and general materials
 1977-2010

XI:  AddendumReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
57 1
Correspondence, Cards
57 2
Correspondence, Invitations and Announcements
 1958
57 3
BYU Bachelor of Science Degree
 1957
57 4
Identification Cards
 1963
57 5
Golden Gleaner Certificate
 1964
57 6
Correspondence, Commencement Cards
 1968
57 7
University of Wisconsin Commencement
 1968
57 8
Awards
 1983
57 9
Programs, Speeches and Commencement Talks
 1983-2006
Volume
57 1
Thesis, Marilyn Arnold, "An Evaluation of Certain Journalism Activities Proposed for Weber Junior College in Ogden, Utah"
 1958
57 2
PhD Thesis, Marilyn Arnold, "Self-Division and Self-Unity in the Novels of Willa Cather"
 1968
Folder
58 1-2
References, Willa Cather
58 3
Draft, Marilyn Arnold, "Minding Mama"
58 4
Novella, Marilyn Arnold, "Minding Mama"
58 5
Marilyn Arnold, "Discovering Mormon Himself"
 2015-2016
58 6
Newspaper Clippings
 1975-2014
59
Oversized material
Personalized tennis raquet sleeve, Cather's Kitchen apron, "Marilyn's shadow" picture, and BYU 1992 commencement.
1992
60
Disks
Various floppy disks and CDs.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • English literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
  • Latter Day Saint women authors--Utah--Provo--Archives
  • Religious Education
  • Women authors, American--20th century
  • Women college teachers--Utah--Provo--Archives
  • Women in church work--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--Archives

Personal Names

  • Arnold, Marilyn, 1935---Archives
  • Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
  • Cather, Willa, 1873-1947--Criticism and interpretation
  • O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation
  • Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Criticism and interpretation
  • Wineera, Vernice, 1938-

Corporate Names

  • Brigham Young University--Faculty--Archives
  • Brigham Young University--Students--Archives
  • Brigham Young University. Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature--Administration--Archives
  • University of Wisconsin--Madison--Administration--Archives
  • University of Wisconsin--Madison--Students--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Academic theses
  • Biographies
  • Book reviews
  • CD-ROMs
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Drafts (documents)
  • Floppy disks
  • Instructional and educational works
  • Lectures
  • Manuscripts
  • Memorabilia
  • Notebooks
  • Personal correspondence
  • Photocopies
  • Research (Documents)
  • Scrapbooks
  • Speeches
  • Yearbooks

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2015 (last modified: 2016)

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