Betty Roland further papers, 1933-1993

MLMSS 4648 ADD-ON 2018

fonds

1933-1993

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs, Posters, Objects, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

69961

1.40 metres of textual material and graphic material (7 boxes and 2 outsize items) - manuscript, printed, typescript, typescript with manuscript annotations and corrections, typescript, carbon, and typescript, photocopy
Clippings
Photographs
Posters
Objects
Sound Recordings

Betty Roland was born Mary Isabel Maclean at Kaniva, Victoria in 1903. She later adopted her father's christian name. After leaving school she worked as a junior reporter for Table Talk and Sun News-Pictorial in Melbourne. Her first play, The Touch of Silk, was produced by Melbourne Repertory Theatre in 1928. She left an unhappy marriage in 1933 and travelled with prominent Australian Communist Guido Baracchi to Russia, where she worked as a journalist for fifteen months. After returning to Australia, she wrote political plays and sketches for several years, and commenced writing for radio in 1942. She worked as a freelance journalist in London between 1952 and 1961. Her works include several children's books, three novels - The Other Side of Sunset (1972), No Ordinary Man (1974), Beyond Capricorn (1976) - and The Eye of the Beholder (1984), a study of the artist's colony Montsalvat (where she lived during the 1970s). She has published three autobiographical volumes: Caviar for Breakfast (1979), which recounts her experiences in Russia, An Improbable Life (1989) and The Devious Being (1990).

Correspondence, 1933-1993
Literary Manuscripts, 1950-1990
Diaries, 1937-1992
Note, Memo and Address Books, 1963-1990
Photographs, 1980-1990
Posters, 1985-1989
Printed Material, 1949-1985
Collected and Miscellaneous Papers, 1934-1990
Trophy, 1985-1985
Audio Tapes
Plan of Montsalvat

This collection comprises 11 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this record.

Partly restricted: Applies to: MLMSS 4648 ADD-ON 2018/Box 1/1 and 3; Box 2/1-2; Box 5 Prior approval is required for access. Any requests for access will be referred to the Head of Manuscripts: Access also requires a signed undertaking not to make any use of information contained therein, in conversation or in writing, that could cause pain or embarrassment to any living person.
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