Title: Jan Bakker and Francelia Butler Papers on Ruskin, Tennessee

Date/Date Range :   1776-2003 [bulk 1997-2001]

Extent: 1.0 linear foot

Abstract:

This collection of papers focuses on Bakker and Butler's road to publishing At Ruskin, Tennessee: An Introduction to Another Socialist Commune in America. with the Edwin Mellen Press. It includes correspondence, editors remarks, notes, and manuscripts.

Call number: MS-2842

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Donated to the Hoskins Special Collections Library in August, 2006.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Jan Bakker and Francelia Butler Papers on Ruskin, Tennessee, MS-2842. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This is a single box collection with no series.

Jan Bakker and Francelia Butler published A Study of the Socialist Commune at Ruskin, Tennessee in 2001. Bakker was a professor of English at Utah State University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He served as consulting editor to the journal Children's Literature and published the book Pastoral in Antebellum Southern Romance in 1989. Butler (1913-1998) wrote for the International Herald Tribune in Paris during the 1930s and taught English for 21 years at the University of Connecticut. She launched the International Peace Games Festival for elementary school teachers and children, founded the journal Children's Literature, and also published a book on skip-rope rhymes, entitled Skipping Around the World in 1989.

The Edwin Mellen Press published the Ruskin documents in 2002 under the title At Ruskin, Tennessee: An Introduction to Another Socialist Commune in America. Butler died in 1998, before the book was published, but has been has been memorialized with a stained-glass window in St. John's Episcopal Church in Utah, donated by Bakker.

For more information regarding the authors or this subject, please see MS # 2360.

This particular collection of papers focuses on Bakker and Butler's road to being published with the Edwin Mellen Press. It includes Correspondence, editors remarks, notes, and manuscripts. A VHS video of Ruskin is in Folder 9, and there are photographs in Folders 11 and 12. Butler and Bakker's final manuscript submitted for print is in the final folder, 15.

• Ruskin Co-Operative Association -- History.