| Physical medium | Paper handwritten typed. |
| Organization of material | Organized by type of material; arranged chronologically. |
| Summary |
Collection contains literary manuscripts, including plays, short stories, poems, and an unpublished novel; book reviews; reports; programs; and college themes and essays. Literary manuscripts constitute a large segment of the collection. The short stories have settings in small southern towns at the turn of the twentieth century; most of the stories tell about life as seen through the eyes of children. Several one-act plays concern life in the South or in the hills of Tennessee and Kentucky. One three-act play, "Alabama Homecoming," is the story of three generations of an Alabama family. A novel, "The End of Summer," deals with the life of a northern woman who marries into a southern family in the early 1900s. One section of the collection contains reports written as college assignments and articles about teaching English. Most of these have been collected in a book entitled "A Regional Approach to the Teaching of Literature: A Study of the Regional Elements in Eleven Plays of the South." The collection includes book reviews and essays on drama and teaching methods. Also included are almost one hundred poems by Utterback. These consist of typescripts prepared for possible publication by Delta Kappa Gamma and have been divided into two sections, Christmas poetry and a miscellaneous group. Also included are two programs from plays in which Dr. Utterback wrote, directed, or acted. |
| Cite as |
Elizabeth Utterback Papers, #75, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, East Carolina University. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- 63 items; 98 items; Mrs. Richard Henry; Miss Elizabeth Walker; Maplewood, NJ; Greenville, NC; gift; loaned for copying; Jan. 7, 1969; Jan. 23, 1969. |
| Biographical note | A native of Louisville, Ky., Martha Elizabeth Utterback was widely known as an educator, poet, and short story writer. She attended Western Kentucky State College (A.B., 1927), George Peabody College (M.A., 1929) and Columbia University (Ed. D., 1950). She was an English instructor at Alabama Women's College (1930-1944), Brooklyn College (1945-46), Associate Colleges for Upper New York (1946-48), and East Carolina College (1950-66). During her career she wrote short stories, poems, articles, a novel, and a book. |
