PCL MS 184 Patricia Gaffney Collection

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Introduction

Patricia Gaffney transferred her collection to the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in September 1999 with additional materials donated in 2005. The collection has no restrictions placed on its use for scholarly purposes. Researchers are responsible for securing copyright permission when using all unpublished manuscripts and published works, whether authored by Patricia Gaffney or by other writers whose works may be found in this collection.

The collection consists of 6.5 cubic feet of documents dating from 1990-2004. It contains manuscripts, edited manuscripts, proofs, research notes, outlines, synopses, proposals and one audio script.

This finding aid was prepared by Mary Koslovsky in January 2006.

Biographical Sketch

Patricia Gaffney was born in Tampa, Florida, but grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from Marymount College in New York and also studied literature at Royal Holloway College of the University of London; at George Washington University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After college, Gaffney taught high school English for one year, after which she took a job as a freelance court reporter and pursued that career in North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Washington D.C. for 5 years.

In 1984, Gaffney was diagnosed with breast cancer, which prompted her to decide what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. She decided to do what she had always wanted to do: write books and live in the country. In 1986, she and her husband left Washington D.C. and moved to rural southern Pennsylvania where they live today.

Gaffney published 12 historical romance novels. Her first, Sweet Treason, appeared in 1989 and won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart as well as other first-book awards. Six of her novels have been nominated for Romance Writers of America RITA awards and Wild at Heart (1997) was among ten finalists for the reader-nominated Favorite Book of the Year Award.

After a dozen books, Gaffney wanted to write “real-life” fiction. In 1999, The Saving Graces, the story of four women friends, one of whom battles a cancer recurrence, was published. Circle of Three was published in 2000, Flight Lessons in 2002 and Good-bye Summer was released in 2004. She is currently working on another novel.

Scope and Content

The Patricia Gaffney Collection comprises 6.5 cubic feet of manuscripts dating from 1990-2004. The collection contains several manuscripts, edited manuscripts, proofs, research notes, outlines, synopses, proposals and one audioscript. The researcher will be able to view the process of writing a manuscript from the proposal to the editor's proof of a manuscript.

Series Description
Literary Manuscripts
Novel Manuscripts
1990-2004
Arranged chronologically
The Patricia Gaffney Collection includes manuscripts, edited manuscripts, proofs, research notes, outlines, synopses, proposals and one audioscript.
Inventory
Box 1
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Lily 1990
1 Manuscript, Chapters 1-4  
2 Manuscript, Chapters 5-8
3 Manuscript, Chapters 9-11
4 Manuscript, Chapters 12-14
5 Manuscript, Chapters 15-17
6 Manuscript, Chapters 18-20
7 Manuscript, Chapters 21-24
8 Manuscript, Chapters 25-26
9 Manuscript, Chapter 27
10 Research Notes
11 Synopsis
Another Eden 1992
12 Manuscript, Chapters 1-4  
13 Manuscript, Chapters 5-8
14 Manuscript, Chapters 9-11
Box 2
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Another Eden (con't.) 1992
1 Manuscript, Chapters 12-14  
2 Manuscript, Chapters 15-17
3 Manuscript, Chapters 18-20
4 Manuscript, Chapters 21-22
5 Research notes
6
Crooked Hearts 1994
7 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-3  
8 Edited manuscript, Chapters 4-6
9 Edited manuscript, Chapters 7-9
10 Edited manuscript, Chapters 10-12
11 Edited manuscript, Chapters 13-14
12 Edited manuscript, Chapters 15-17
Box 3
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Crooked Hearts (con't.) 1994
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 18-20  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 21 - Epilogue
3 Outline
4 Research Notes
5
6
To Have and To Hold 1995
7 Galley, Chapters 1-4  
8 Galley, Chapters 5-8
9 Galley, Chapters 9-11
10 Galley, Chapters 12-15
11 Galley, Chapters 16-19
12 Galley, Chapter 20 - Author Notes
13 Research Notes
14
Box 4
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
To Love and to Cherish 1995
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-4  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 5-8
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 9-11
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 12-15
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 16-19
6 Edited manuscript, Chapters 20-22
7 Edited manuscript, Chapter 23 - Author Notes
8 Research notes
9
10
11
Box 5
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Forever and Ever 1996
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-4  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 5-8
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 9-12
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 13-16
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 17-19
6 Edited manuscript, Chapters 20-23
7 Research notes
8
9
Box 6
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Outlaw in Paradise 1997
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-3  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 4-6
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 7-9
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 10-12
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 13-15
Box 7
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Wild At Heart 1997
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-3  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 4-6
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 7-9
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 10-12
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 13-15
6 Edited manuscript, Chapters 16-19
7 Proposal
8 Research notes
9
10
Box 8
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Thief of Hearts 1998
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-5  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 6-9
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 10-12
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 13-16
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 17-20
6 Edited manuscript, Chapters 21-25
7 Edited manuscript, Chapters 26-32
8 Research notes
9
10
Box 9
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Saving Graces 1999
1 Audioscript, pages 1-60  
2 Audioscript, pages 61-120
3 Audioscript, pages 121-180
4 Audioscript, pages 181-230
5 Audioscript, pages 231-289
6 Letter to the Editor
7 Notes
8 Plot Outline
9 Proposal (Breath of Kindness)
10 Research notes
11
Box 10
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Circle of Three 2000
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-5  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 6-9
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 10-13
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 14-17
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 18-21
6 Edited manuscript, Chapters 22-24
7 Edited manuscript, Chapters 25-28
8 Research notes
9
10
Box 11
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Flight Lessons 2001
1 Galley, Chapters 1-4  
2 Galley, Chapters 5-8
3 Galley, Chapters 9-11
4 Galley, Chapters 12-14
5 Galley, Chapters 15-18
6 Galley, Chapters 19-22
7 Research notes
8
9
Box 12
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Sweet Everlasting 2002
1 Proposal  
2 Notes
3
4
5
6
Box 13
Manuscripts
FolderDescriptionDate
Goodbye Summer 2004
1 Edited manuscript, Chapters 1-4  
2 Edited manuscript, Chapters 5-8
3 Edited manuscript, Chapters 9-12
4 Edited manuscript, Chapters 13-16
5 Edited manuscript, Chapters 17-20
6 Edited manuscript, Chapters 21-23
7 Edited manuscript, Chapters 24-26
8 Edited manuscript, Chapters 27-29
9 Research notes
10