Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England Portland Campus

Located in the Josephine S. Abplanalp Library on the University of New England’s Portland campus, this archive houses published and unpublished literary, cultural, and social history sources by and about Maine women. The papers of Josephine Deibitsch Peary, wife of Robert E. Peary, and Marie Peary Stafford, their daughter, are held here. The papers of these intrepid women are available for study.

Address: 48-64 College St, Portland, ME 04103

Website: http://www.une.edu/mwwc

Marie Peary Stafford at family home in Eagle Island. — Marie Stafford at family home in Eagle Island.

Page from Josephine Peary scrapbook, including a letter and a telegram congratulating Josephine on Robert Peary's achievement.(1909) — Page from Josephine Peary scrapbook, including a letter and a telegram congratulating Josephine on Robert Peary’s achievement.(1909)

Reading room of MWWC. — Reading room of MWWC

Photo courtesy of Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England.

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College, is pleased to acknowledge the Oak Foundation for generously funding the development, design, and production of this project, which was originally produced as a paper map. Additional support was provided by the Arctic Museum’s Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment. Production of the website was supported by a Gibbons Summer Research Fellowship.

We wish to thank four Bowdoin College students for their assistance. Lydia Woodward ’16 compiled many of the entries appearing in this brochure. Aidan French ’18 and William Wise ’18 did additional research on some of the Maine-Arctic connections. Xin Jiang ’20 prepared this website and did additional research.

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