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Victoria University Library maintains a number of special collections in various subject areas. Included in the collections are printed books, manuscripts and papers. Many of the items are catalogued, and inventories and finding aids are available for the manuscript collections.

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Norman Jewison Archive

Norman Jewison Archive


The archive of celebrated Canadian film director-producer Norman Jewison contains photographs and publicity materials, papers and correspondence, shooting scripts and schedules primarily for films directed or produced by Jewison between the years 1975 and 2003. Materials related to the films Fiddler on the Roof, …And Justice for All, A Soldier's Story, Moonstruck, The Hurricane, The Statement and others undertaken by Jewison are held in this collection.
Norman Jewison graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1949. As a student he was involved in writing, directing and acting in various theatrical productions, including the All-Varsity Revue in 1949. In 2004 Norman Jewison was appointed Chancellor of Victoria University
 



Northrop Frye

 

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) Scholar, literary critic, and teacher.
A comprehensive collection of correspondence, literary manuscripts, published work, professional and personal writings, photographs and audio-visual materials of this world-renowned scholar and professor of English. There are, in addition, over 2000 monographs annotated by Frye in the collection. The author of such works as Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye joined Victoria College as lecturer in 1939 and became Principal of the college in 1959. Frye was Chancellor of Victoria University from 1978-1991.
   
  Virginia Woolf Collection & the Bloomsbury Group

Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Group

A significant research collection of more than 3000 items, includings books by and about Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbuiry Group. The collection contains all the books hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf including many variant issues, bindings and proof copies. The design interest of the Bloomsbury group are represented by the work of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Clive Bell and Stephen Tomlin. Tomlin's bronze busts of Virginia Woolf and Lytton Stratchey are displayed in the Special Collections Reader Room. A substantial number of ephemeral publications, press catalogues, announcements and notices enhance the research utility of the collections. The Kenneth Clark and the S.P. Rosenbaum collection include Bloomsbury related material as well.
   
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge


.Samuel Taylor Coleridge


A research collection of international significance containing manuscripts and printed books belonging to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) and others of his circle, including William Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Charles Lamb. It provides an especially rich resource for the study of Coleridge's private papers, marginalia and informal conversation. Foremost among the manuscripts is the 'Autograph of Christabel' presented by Coleridge to Sara Hutchinson. Other items of note are Coleridge's unpublished 'Opus Maximum' and transcripts of many of his sermons and lectures
   
  Baxter Collection

Baxter Collection


A comprehensive collection of nineteenth century prints produced in England by the engraver and lithographer George Baxter (1804-1867). Includes prints from two of Baxter's licensees (Kronheim and Le Blonde) and contains portrait and landscape prints as well as prints produced to decorate needle-boxes.

   
  Peter Jones


Peter Jones


Peter Jones (1802-1856) Ojibwa Chief, Methodist missionary and educator. Correspondence, addresses, draft autobiography, draft history of the Ojibwa Indians, notes for sermons, and notes for addresses on North American Indians. Articles about Jones and material relating to his wife, Eliza Jones also form part of the collection. Jones' "Anecdote Book" and miniature portraits of Peter and Eliza Jones are highlights of this collection.
   

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Special Collections by Subject
 
       
  Art   Literature, Literary & Film Resources
  George Baxter   A.J. Bell
  Kenneth Clark   Quentin Bell new
  Yvonne Housser   G.E. Bentley
  Claire Pratt   The Bloomsbury Group
  Paris Posters   Alice Boissonneau
  Stephen Riggins   Paul Bouissac
      Catharine Carrington
      Kathleen Coburn
      S.T. Coleridge
      Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      John Douglas
      Pelham Edgar
  Canadiana   Helen Kemp Frye
  Bader Family   Northrop Frye
  Ronald Bates   David Gilmour
  Alice Boissonneau   Duncan Grant new
  Lawrence Burpee   Gwendolyn Grant
  Canadiana   Jeffrey M. Heath new
  Bliss Carman   F.D. Hoeniger
  A.E. Coleman   The Hogarth Press
  A.P. Coleman   L.E. Horning
  Helena Coleman Jennie Huie
  Keith Davey   International Virginia Woolf Society
  James Evans   Grace Irwin new
  David Gilmour   Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman
  F.N. Gisborne   C.C. James
 

Ethel M. Granger Bennett

Norman Jewison
  Jeffrey M. Heath new   Eva Kushner
  Grace Irwin new   Millar MacLure
  Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman   Jane Millgate
  Peter Jones   A.F. Moritz
  Raymond Knister   Janis Rapoport
  Marjorie Pickthall   John Reibetanz
  E.J. Pratt   Laure Rièse
  Augusta Stowe-Gullen   Donald Robson
  Earle Toppings   S.P. Rosenbaum
  Victoriana   David Sinclair
      Francis Sparshott
    Tennyson
      Earle Toppings
      R.C. Trevelyan
      Leonard Woolf
      Virginia Woolf Collection
     

J. Howard Woolmer

 

       
Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies Philosophy
Erasmus

Peter H. Hess

 

       
      Religious Studies
      Besly Family
      Reuben Butchart
    Ernest G. Clarke
    John Webster Grant
 
  S.A. Nigosian
      A.H. Reynar
     

Wesleyana

 

       
      Sociology
      Stephen Riggins
 
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