York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

File also includes e-mail exchanged with one of Swan's students, Emiko Hsuen, pertaining to Swan's questions about Japanese culture for this story, e-mail regarding research about the Chelsea Hotel, a copy of a paper entitled "Thomas Wolfe's German girlfriend: some further thoughts on Thea Voelcker" by Lawrence D. Stokes, and Thomas Wolfe Society publications entitled "Thomas Wolfe's friendship with Henry Volkening: the documents" and "The proceedings and membership list of the Thomas Wolfe Society: the twenty-seventh annual meeting, Portland, Maine, May 27-29, 2005".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(03)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(05)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/012(02)
File
May-June 2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts

2017-010/011(04)
File
2005-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".

Debates on Racism

2008-006/006(13)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

[Denry's]

2002-007/013(30)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Descant, vol. 9, nos. 1-2, 1978 (contains three theatrical pieces by Swan), and vol. 11, nos. 1-2, 1980 (Swan's "It's not all porn: A Treatise on Ethics")

1996-014/020(01)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Detective Fictions

2008-006/007(09)
File
[198-?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Di Brandt

2003-028/002(11)
File
2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Diana Cooper-Clark

2002-007/002(59)
File
2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Diaries 1976 : May to Sept.

2013-041/012(10)
File
1976-1977, 1986, 1988

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of diary entries and letters written by and exchanged between Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig.

Diary Scripts

2002-007/003(19)
File
1976-1979

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Dionne Brand

2003-028/002(10)
File
2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Dorothy Speak

2002-007/002(46)
File
1998

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Down and In: Detroit with related correspondence

1996-014/003(04)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Down and In performance script with pictures

1996-014/003(03)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Dr. D.C. Swan: articles and clippings on Swan's father

1996-014/001(01)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Drafts of early story: "The Tallest Man in the World."

1996-026/003(04)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Drafts of short story "Paulie Lives" (published in Exile)

2013-041/012(11)
File
2005

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Dragu (any) Diaries

2002-007/003(20)
File
1976-1977, 1986

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early boyfriend, Chuck (4 b&w photos with note)

1996-014/001(02)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early correspondence, Havergal, etc.

1996-026/001(06)
File
[ca. 1960-1964]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early drafts of "The Dead Celebrities Club"

2017-010/014(07)
File
2010-2011, 2016

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.

Early notes & writing about novel & actual early pages of novel

2013-041/012(12)
File
1994-1995, 2003

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File includes journal notes from Swan's 1995 trip to Crete on a "goddess tour".

Early Notes and Research for "Casanova"

2004-017/009(04)
File
1994-2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early Notes and Research for "Casanova"

2004-017/009(06)
File
1994-2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early Notes and Research for "Casanova"

2004-017/009(05)
File
1994-2002

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early Writing

2003-028/002(71)
File
1968-1972

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early Writing, Jackie the Ripper

2003-028/002(72)
File
1973-1976

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Early Writing, unpublished

2003-028/003(01)
File
1973-1976

Part of Susan Swan fonds

"Eating your words" cont'd

1995-030/004(10)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Eliza Clark

2002-007/002(22)
File
[1997?]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Elizabeth Smart

2003-028/002(48)
File
1979-1985

Part of Susan Swan fonds

E-mail : Katherine Govier

2017-010/008(09)
File
Jan. 2016

Part of Susan Swan fonds

E-mail : Natalee Caple

2017-010/008(10)
File
2016-2017

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan and Natalee Caple, as well as related e-mail from Margaret Atwood, Brad Cran, Judy Rebick and Joseph Boyden, and a copy of a letter from Brian Brett to the president of the University of British Columbia.

E-mail about Globe and Mail essay

2017-010/008(08)
File
2013-2014

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, Sheila Heti, Lisan Jutras and Jared Bland pertaining to Swan's essay for the Globe and Mail on the subject of the "new unromantic romantics" in literature.

E-mail and greeting cards

2017-010/008(06)
File
2016

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan and Marc Cote, Fred Hacker and Barbara Gowdy, as well as greeting cards sent to Swan on the occasions of her birthday, Christmas and marriage to Patrick Crean.

E-mail and paper : Russell Morton Brown

2017-010/009(05)
File
2010

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of a paper by Russell Morton Brown entitled "Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's prairie postmodernism: the Aberhart effect" and an accompanying e-mail sent to Patrick Crean.

Email Letters late 07 08

2008-006/010(06)
File
2007-2008

Part of Susan Swan fonds

E-mail relating to "The Western Light"

2017-010/008(05)
File
2010-2012

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, her literary agent, publisher and others pertaining to the editing, publication and promotion of The Western Light. Also included are research materials pertaining to fact-checking and promoting the novel.

E-mail, proposals about "Sexual Gothic" or "The Dead Celebrities Club"

2017-010/008(11)
File
2013-2016

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of e-mail sent and received by Swan pertaining to research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, performances of her theatre project, "Heroines of the Sexual Gothic", her participation in writers' festivals, and other topics relating to her literary career.

Emails

2008-006/010(05)
File
2004-2006

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Emily and Carol Stories

2003-028/003(06)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

English 240

1996-026/002(02)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

English 332

1996-026/002(03)
File

Part of Susan Swan fonds

English Drama 327

1996-026/002(08)
File
1966-1967

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Ephemera

2002-007/001(01)
File
1960-1965

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Erika Ritter

2002-007/002(40)
File
1997

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Essay on White Dawn

2008-006/006(09)
File
[ca. 1997]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Essays and exams

1996-026/002(06)
File
1964-1965

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Essays on Canada

2008-006/007(17)
File
1970-1991

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Essays, Notes, Stories from McGill University

2002-007/001(02)
File
1964-1965

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Evaluation unmarked. Evaluations of Senior Prose Workshop

2008-006/009(03)
File
2006-2007

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Evaluations

2008-006/007(13)
File
1997-1998

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Extra Copies of Diaries

2002-007/003(17)
File
1976-1977

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Extra Copies of Diaries

2002-007/003(18)
File
1976-1977

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Extra documents

2013-041/012(13)
File
2003

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Contents of the disc include an essay written by Swan about her novel The Wives of Bath, a memorandum from York University regarding a reduction in Swan's teaching load for 2003-2004, and a table of corrections pertaining to one of Swan's pieces of writing. Not all files on this disc are retrievable. Paper copies of accessible documents are also in the file.

Extra file on Casanova novel

2013-041/013(01)
File
[ca. 2003]

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Faculty of Arts and Science course

1996-026/002(09)
File
1967

Part of Susan Swan fonds

Fall versions of DCC [Dead Celebrities Club] : 2013

2017-010/015(04)
File
Oct. 2013

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of October 2013 annotated draft partial manuscripts.

Federal funding for the arts : e-mail and statistics

2017-010/010(04)
File
2008

Part of Susan Swan fonds

File consists of a list of cuts by the Canadian federal government since 1 Apr. 2008 prepared by the Canadian Conference of the Arts, e-mail sent by Swan and others regarding a town hall about cuts to cultural and heritage granting programs, and an essay by Swan entitled "Tips for the emerging writer Stephen Harper".

Feminism and Writing