Literary archives concerning Canadian author Monica Hughes

by RUBIO, Gerald (comp.)

$300 · Offered by Biblio

c. 1979-1988. File box. Very good +. 14 cm of archival material. One book and 16 files in a red box. Paper well preserved. Canadian children's science fiction writer Monica Hughes (1925-2003) wrote over 30 books and won almost every award for young adult fiction. She is best known for her Isis trilogy novels which chart the development of a small human colony on a distant planet through three generations, and explore the origins and consequences of prejudice and ignorance. Contains the following book: •Canadian Children’s Literature: A Journal of Criticism and Review. November 17, 1980. Contains: “Monica Hughes: An Overview” by Gerald Rubio. One of the editors is his wife Mary. Some spots on covers along with two yellow sticky notes. File contents: • 1. Articles by Gerald Rubio about Monica Hughes. Some rough notes. Globe and Mail clipping about Hughes from 1983. Book News from Methuen Publications 1983. List of books by Hughes up to 1982. Photocopy from The Children’s Book News from 1983. Photocopied pages from “Twentieth-Century Children’s Writers” edited by D. L. Kirkpatrick with the pages about Monica Hughes by Gerald Rubio. Also Time magazine article from 1984 and Globe and Mail clipping from 1984 about the “bubble boy.” • 2. List of Hughes’ books up to 1982. Copies of Rubio’s articles in rough form. Photocopies of some pages from “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin. • 3. Copies of articles in rough form, presumably for Twentieth-Century Children’s Writers.

• Year: 1979
• Binding: unknown

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