| Description | Monica Sjöö (MS)
File 1 Book, New Age and Armageddon. London: The Women’s Press, 1992; inscribed to PVTW
Book, The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All by MS & Barbara Mor. Trondheim: The Rainbow Press, 1981, including letter from MS to PVTW 14/04/1982
Typescript (with cover, as in MS archive FA/Arch/85 File 5), ‘The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All’ inscribed to Beverly Skinner from MS 1976. Contains xerox of letter from Barbara Mor to MS 29.08.1976 & flier ‘Women & Spirituality… for the banished children of Eve’ nd
Printed newssheet, ‘Women are the Real Left’ by MS, May 1979; half of the publication ‘Wider We. Towards an Anarchist Politics’ by Keith (Paton) Motherson. Marked ‘This Copy belongs to Beverly Skinner’
Catalogue, ‘Through Space and Time the Ancient Sisterhood Spoke to Me’ MS Retrospective Bath 2004, including press release and postcard from MS to PW 07.01.2004
2x private view cards for same 31.01.2004
Catalogue, ‘Windows to Other Worlds’ exhibition by MS & others, Russia/UK
Exchange art exhibition, Bristol & Cambridge, 31.03-21.4 & 4.08-12.09.2004. Bad water damage
Private view card for same 02.04.2004
Postcard from MS to PW 06.09 nd re slideshow
Copy of The Guardian (complete) 23.09.2005 including PVW’s obituary of MS, & xerox of it
2pp email to PVW from Robert White (The Guardian) 04.10.2005 re same
2x xerox of obituary of MS in ‘Northern Earth’ plus covering note from ‘Angela’
Journal Goddess Alive Issue 8 Autumn/Winter 2005 with ‘Remembering Monica Sjöö’
Folder of notes/versions of eulogy for MS by PVTW, plus copy of funeral programme
Eulogy by PVTW (3pp)
2x Feminist Archive newsletter Nov 2005 containing MS obituary by PVTW
Letter to PVTW from Jane Hargreaves (FA) 10.10.2005 re MS’s death
1p typed comment (by PVTW) on FA Newsletter and its overemphasis on MS
4pp MS typed notes on diet & help needs while suffering from cancer
3x article by MS on ‘St Non’s Well, Pembrokeshire’ 1985
A4 print of Avebury Stone Avenue by MS 1992
Programme for The Divine Ancestress (gathering) 25-31.10.2004 Bath (featuring MS)
Envelope from Goddessing newssheet (Florida) containing letter to PVTW 28.09.2004, 1 x Goddessing Issue 18 2003 containing MS images, article & prayers, 2x Goddessing Issue 19 Winter/Spring 2004-5 containing MS articles/prayers
Beverly Skinner (BS)
File 2 Correspondence re BS papers/art/death (including an appreciation by PVTW)
Lists of books, art & exhibitions
Correspondence: letter to MS 02.09.1989, letter from PVTW 14.12.1993, Christmas card to PVTW 1995, post card from Lynda to PVTW 14.01.1999 with poem (for ‘Beverly’)
Article, ‘Cancer and Civilization’ by R.A. Holman (Mother Earth, Jan 1962)
Cutting (Daily - Telegraph, nd) ‘Cancer of the Breast comes in Three Types’
Catalogue, Woman Magic 1985 in Swedish (featuring BS, MS & others)
Typed publication ‘Artists Connected with the Women’s Liberation Movement’ including BS & MS writings 1971
Waterdamaged typescript ‘To Be or Not to Be?’ by BS 07.11.1978 ill.
Envelope of cuttings relating to her manuscript and the Theosophical Society
Autobiographical pages, artwork (original, xeroxed & photos) & poetry (many pages total)
(NB some BS material clearly migrated to other folders e.g. MS printed items & Sistershow papers qv) |