Jean McClure Mudge is the daughter of Robert B. and Eva Colby McClure. She graduated from Stanford University in 1955, where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She received her master's degree in Early American Culture from the Winterthur/University of Delaware program in 1957 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1973.

Dr. Mudge has been a lecturer at Smith College, curator of the Dickinson Homestead at Amherst College, a visiting scholar at the Peabody Museum, and currently works in film production as head of her own company, Jean Mudge Productions, based in the San Francisco area.

She has written many articles in the fields of American studies and Chinese export porcelain. In addition to two books on Chinese porcelain, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America and Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835. Dr. Mudge has written books about ceramics and glass at the Essex Institute, Emily Dickinson, the Italian poet Lauro de Bosis (about whom she has also written a film script), and Mussolini.

Her documentary films on Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Lyon, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and other subjects, have received several awards and have been shown on PBS and at American embassies through the United States Information Agency. She received a number of grants to fund production of her films from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Humanities Media Fund, various state humanities councils, private foundations, and individuals.

Dr. Mudge is a member of the Writer's Guild of America, the Modern Language Association, the Society of Winterthur Graduates, the Oriental Ceramic Society, the Society for Values in Higher Education, and the San Francisco Bay Area Video Coalition. She is married to Lewis Seymour Mudge, Jr., a theologian. They have three children.

The collection includes research notes, correspondence, copies of articles, photographs, copies of inventories, and drafts of Dr. Mudge's thesis and books on Chinese export porcelain. Some of the papers document the process of turning her thesis into a published book. As well, there is information from a conference on Chinese porcelain which she attended in Shanghai in 1982, and there are some books which she consulted during her research. Some of the books are in Chinese.

In addition to the books which are still housed with her manuscript collection, Dr. Mudge donated titles which were transferred to the Printed Books and Periodicals Collection. A list of them is available at this repository.

The file folders are arranged in alphabetical order. Some oversize files were placed in a separate box, Box 27, and are therefore not in the main alphabetical sequence. Note cards are in Boxes 28-31. Many photographs are interfiled with the rest of the research papers, but negatives and a group of photos which were originally in albums are in Boxes 32-33. Slides are in Boxes 34-40. Books and some issues of periodicals are in Box 41. Boxes 42-46 hold files which document turning her thesis into a published book; they are accession number 02x144.

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Acession 95x19 and 96x58: Gift of Jean McClure Mudge, in memory of her parents Robert B. and Eva Colby McClure.

Acesssion 02x144 was transferred from the Joseph Downs Papers (Col. 76), which papers had in turn been transferred from the Winterthur Archives.

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Extent: 13 cu.ft. Date range: ca.1980-ca.1989 Creator: Jean McClure Mudge Title: Chinese Export Porcelain Research Papers Dates: 1980s Call No.: Col. 618 Acc. No.: 95x19, 96x58 Quantity: 41 boxes Location: 35 K 1-5, 35 L 5

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