Marjorie Flower - translation of a poem by St John of the Cross, 1978, pasted in her printed book Centred on love: the poems of St John of the Cross, with a cassette tape of her reading two of the poems

MLMSS 6363
MLOH 269

fonds

1978-1993

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

152329

0.05 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript and printed
1 audiocassette (5 min. 24 sec.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Marjorie Flower was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1920 and studied languages at the University of Western Australia and Melbourne University. She converted to Roman Catholicism during the Second World War and entered the Carmelite Monastery at Kew, Victoria in 1946. For 47 years she was a member of the Carmelite community in Papua New Guinea, at Yule Island and Bomana. She returned to Sydney in 1993

1978-1993; translations of poems of St John of the Cross (Call No.: MLMSS 6363)

Audiocassette:
Marjorie Flower, reading of her translation of poems of St John of the Cross

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.