Dale Spender further papers, 1912-2002

MLMSS 8717

fonds

1912-2002

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

421236

0.85 metres of textual material (5 boxes)

Dale Spender was born in Newcastle, NSW in 1943. She is a prominent feminist who has published over 30 books. She gained her doctorate at the University of London where she has also taught women's studies.

Dale is the founder of a number of women's publishing ventures including Pandora Press for whom she was general editor of their Australian women writers literary heritage series. She is a regular speaker on women's issues and has developed a strong interest in the electronic media.

Her publications include Man made language (1980), There's always been a women's movement this century (1983), Mothers of the novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen (1986), The writing or the sex? (1989), The knowledge explosion (with Cheris Kramarae, 1992), and Nattering on the net: women, power and cyberspace (1995).

BOX 1
Folder 1: Votes for women, pictorial US
Postcards, clippings, photographs and enlargements, showing women including suffragettes, ca. 1912-1983

Folder 2
You are there: the ordeal of Christabel Pankhurst, rehearsal script, 1958

Folder 3: Suffragettes '02
Photocopies of articles, typescript and manuscript notes, 2002

Folder 4: Votes for women
Photographs, photocopies, enlargements, newspapers, etc., ca. 1913-1990

Folder 5 RESTRICTED
Typescript and manuscript papers relating to Pandora Companion to Twentieth Century Women's Fiction, and to the Woman's Novel in Letters: A Graphic Guide, 1986-1989

Folder 6: Dympha Cusack RESTRICTED
Photographs, papers, correspondence, on Dympha Cusack and essays about on, 1949-1989

BOX 2 RESTRICTED
Papers and correspondence concerning the Knowledge Explosion, 1988-1990

BOX 3
Folder 1 RESTRICTED
Papers and correspondence concerning the Knowledge Explosion, 1988-1990

Folders 2-4 RESTRICTED
Correspondence and draft manuscripts from authors including Lynne Spender, Marjorie Pizer and Kirsten Lees, for novel on Dympha Cusack, 1990-1991

Folder 5
Final draft and cover proofs for Nattering on the Net, 1995

Folder 6 RESTRICTED
Papers, clippings, correspondence concerning compilation of the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, 1988-1990

Folder 7 RESTRICTED
Papers, agreements, clippings, and correspondence mainly with authors including Kate Veitch, Elizabeth Jolley, and Robyn Archer, concerning compilation of the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, 1988-1990

Folder 8 RESTRICTED
Papers and correspondence, primarily with Dr. Jocelynne Scutt, ca. 1990

BOX 4
Spider cup / Marion Halligan, 1990

Spiral bound volume Roundabout: a superior soap with a feminist slant, commissioned by SBS, n.d.

Folder 1-6 RESTRICTED
Papers, clippings, correspondence with Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Riddell, Beth Yahp, etc., copies of reviews, drafts, concerning compilation of the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, 1987-1990

BOX 5 RESTRICTED
Papers, clippings, correspondence, drafts, etc., concerning compilation of the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Australian Women's Writing, 1987-1990

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 8717/ Box 1/Folders 5-6 Box 2/All folders Box 3/Folders 1-4, 6-8 Box 4/Folders 1-6 Box 5/All folders
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