Subject strengths: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetry

Personal archive of poet Vincenza Holland including notebooks; diaries; published and unpublished material; and correspondence with poets local to the North East. Includes drafts of her poetry collection 'Mrs Turnbull's Tree' which was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1990.

Between 1966-73 Holland lived abroad with her family. First in newly independent Lesotho - a country surrounded by apartheid South Africa - but also for 18 months on Corfu. Holland was politically and socially engaged in what was happening around her, and her archive contains many collected documents, cuttings and ephemera relating to her travels.

Collection Name and Collection Reference Code:

Collection Name: Holland (Vincenza) Archive

Archive Ref Code: VH

Date Range of Material

c. 1960 - 2017

Type of Material

Personal archive of Vincenza Holland.

Size of Collection

6 boxes and 1 file of photographs

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