Professor Elizabeth Webby papers, 1974-2002

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1974-2002

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1.95 metres of textual material (13 boxes)

Elizabeth Webby was born in Sydney in 1942, to George Loder and Betty Ellis. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney and the University of Sydney, where she completed a BA, MA and PhD. She married Barry Webby in 1966.

Webby was employed as a tutor in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1965 and has remained a significant member of that department ever since, becoming Professor of Australian Literature in 1990. She served in that position until 2007, when she retired and took on her current role as Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature. During this time she was also editor of the journal Southerly and a member of the judging panels for the Miles Franklin Award and the Nita B. Kibble Awards.

Webby has been a leading figure in ensuring Australian literature, both colonial and modern, has received academic and popular attention. She has done so through her teaching and through publications that include Early Australian Poetry (1982), Modern Australian Plays (1990) and the edited volumes Colonial Voices (1989), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2000) and The Letters of Walter and Mary Richardson (edited with G. Sykes, 2000). She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and editor of their journal Humanities Australia. In 2003 she received both the Centenary Medal and the AA Phillips Award from Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

She has also promoted Australian writing through her chairing of the NSW Writers' Centre from 1995 to 1996 and as a member of the literary advisory committee of the NSW Ministry of the Arts and various boards of other cultural and literary organisations. She was awarded an AM for her contribution to Australian literary culture in 2004.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Includes personal correspondence, research papers, and records relating to the Southerly during Professor Webby's editorship.
Professor Elizabeth Webby papers, 1974-2002
Box 1
Correspondence from 1974 – 2002
References, 1990’s
Box 2
Students supervised for PhD or MPhil 1970-2000
Australian Encyclopedia entries 1995
Box 3
Opera House staff writing competition 1993
Other literary competitions 1991-2000
Literary Magazine enquiry Australia Council 1995
Sydney Writers Festival review committee 1996
OUP Women’s Writing Book (unpublished) 1994
Writers’ Walk Circular Quay 1991- 1997
Penguin New Literary History of Australia 1985 – 1988
Box 4
ASAL 1998 Conference, correspondence with writers 1997 (2 folders)
ASAL Macquarie Dictionary of Quotations 1989-1990
Drafts of Chapter on Adaptions for Academy editions volume of Clarke’s His Natural Life 1997 (2 folders)
Research grants and publications 1980’s
Feminist Companion, letters from Australian writers 1987
Colonial Voices 1988 – 1989
Australia Felix project 1988
City Rail poetry project 1991 -1992
Dale Spender Pandora Press 1986 – 1988
Letters from Alan Atkinson re Charles Tompson 1980
Anna Maria Bunn plaque Darling Harbour 1991
Feminist Book 1999
SPACLALS paper Macquarie Uni 1984
ARC project 1993 (unsuccessful)
ARC project with Peggy van Toorn 1997-1999
ARC project with Paul Eggert 1997
ARC project on Australian fiction 1990-1991
Australian Studies Association papers mainly 2001-2004
Box 5
Routledge Encyclopedia 1990
Lecture to English Association (Aboriginal Writing) 1994
19th century Australian magazines 1978-1991
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 1978 -1989
Theses examined 1988-2001
Special Research Centre 1999
ARC project Australian Feminism
Graduation Address 1994
Christian Stead symposium 1993
Box 6
Youth Writes project 2001
Society of Women Writers
National Book Council Banjo Awards 1992
Writers in residence Sydney Uni 1980s
Publishing and other projects 1990s
Box 7
GA Wilkes book 1990 -1992
May Gibbs reading Parliament House Sydney 1990
Correspondence with Publishers 1990s
Walter and Mary Richardson 1998-2000
Correspondence re appointment chair of Australian Literature
Box 8
Correspondence 1971
German Australian literary conference 1979
Walter Stone Award FAW 2000
Nominations, Honorary Awards Sydney Uni 1991 -1993
Review of English department Queensland Uni 1997
E Webby PhD thesis 1972
Research students supervised 1989 – 2006
Reports and reviews 1990s
Walter and Mary MUP 2000
Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature CUP 2000
Hilton Barton’s MSS study of Henry Lawson
Box 9
Australian Cooperative Digitisation project 1995-1997
ARC Grant “The External Eye” 2001-2003
Theses supervised and examined 2006
Correspondence from writers and students 2000-2006 (includes earlier Elizabeth Jolley corro)
English essays written during BA degrees 1959-1962
Lecture notes for English 2 and 3 Sydney University 1960-1961
Correspondence re Currency Press Companion to Australian Theatre 1987-1991
Katherine Mansfield Centennial conference 1988
AAALA conference 2001
Correspondence with Dale Spender, Laurie Hergenham 1980s
Box 10
Correspondence with writers as editor of Southerly 1988-1999
Box 11
Correspondence with writers as editor of Southerly 1988-1999
Box 12 Research Projects:
Mary Fortune
Hal Porter
Will Lawson
Box 13 Research Projects
19th century Australian magazines
Happy Endings
Goodbye to Romance
Modern Australian plays
The Age of Macquarie

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