Kimberly Johnson
Senior Assistant Dean, Special Collections & University Archives
(940) 898-3743 | kjohnson27@twu.edu
Shelia Bickle
Manager, Special Collections Research and Support Services
(940) 898-3752 | sbickle@twu.edu
Claire Myers Owens: Texas-born novelist, lecturer, and author of non-fiction works about self-realization and Zen Buddhism. Graduate of College of Industrial Arts (CIA, later Texas Woman's University) in 1916. Collection includes:
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correspondence interview transcripts news clippings |
manuscripts radio scripts photographs |
legal & financial records biographical information book reviews |
published writings family histories drafts |
artifacts articles |
notes diaries |
Claire Myers Owens Papers, MSS. 002, The Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's University
Access to Collection
Researchers may access the holidngs of the Woman's Collection Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. The Woman's Colllection is located on the second floor of the Blagg-Huey Library on the Denton Campus of Texas Woman's University. All materials are viewed in the Catherine Merchant Reading Room. Photocopies and scans are provided at the discretion of the Woman's Collection. No portion of the collection can be checked out or loaned.
Literary rights to all Cliare Myers Owens' works published prior to her death reside with John W. White of 60 Pound Ridge Road, Cheshire, Connecticut 06410. All literary rights of Claire Myers Owens' manuscripts and unpublished work are owned by Texas Woman's University.
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director for Special Collections.
All responsibility for questions of copyright that may arise in copying, scanning, and use of material shall be assumed by the user.