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Contemporary Women Writers Archives, 1970 - present

Margaret Atwood Manuscript Collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library,
University of Toronto. Papers, 1958-present, drafts of literary and non-literary work, art work, correspondence.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/manuscripts_a.html

Nadine Gordimer Papers, Lilly Library, Indian University . Papers 1934-2001, including correspondence, short stories, novels, articles and notebooks.
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/guides/gordimer/inform.html

Papers of Janette Turner Hospital , University of Queensland Library. Correspondence, drafts, proofs and other papers relating to her novels.
http://findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/findaid/hospital/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default

Elizabeth Jennings Papers, Georgetown University. Correspondence and manuscripts.
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/index/i136}1.htm

Elizabeth Jennings Papers, Washington University in St Louis. Correspondence, manuscripts and notebooks.
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/jennings/jennings.html

Doris Lessing, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre at the University of Texas, Austin . Papers 1940-1999, sorted by the author and open for research.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/lessing.html

Alice Munro Papers, University of Calgary Library Special Collections. Correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/munroa.html

Iris Murdoch
Kingston University , UK (acquired 2004).

Kathleen Raine Papers, Girton College Archive. Manuscript book of poems.
http://www-lib.girton.cam.ac.uk/archive/

Muriel Spark Archive, National Library of Scotland . Letters, manuscripts and notebooks, 1940-present.
http://www.nls.uk/murielspark/archive_summary.html

Anne Stevenson Papers, Cambridge University Library. Draft mss, essays, lectures, diaries and pocket-books, correspondence.
Restricted access.

Timberlake Wertenbaker, British Library Manuscripts Collection. Plays, correspondence and papers, acquired 1997.

University of East Anglia Library, Archives of Modern Writing and Literary Translation (includes recordings of Margaret Atwood, Beryl Bainbridge, Pat Barker, Margaret Drabble, Maggie Gee, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Rose Tremain, Fay Weldon)
http://www.lib.uea.ac.uk/lib/libinf/find/archives/archives.htm