Series 01: Kate Grenville drafts and final version of The Idea of Perfection, 1995-1999

MLMSS 7935/Boxes 1-7

series

1995-1999

886558

1.33 metres of textual material (7 boxes)

BOX 1
1. 3 exercise books [No. 2-4, no. 1 having been retained by Kate Grenville for teaching and illustrative purposes] containing handwritten first drafts.
2. Draft, January 1995
3. Draft 2, August 1995. First attempt to collect the writing into subjects
4. Draft 3, October 1995. Further refinement of subjects and first attempt to make sections into a sequence
5. Draft 4, October 1995. This text contains the scenes relating to Control Woman, Alfred and Engineer
6. Draft 6 (fragments of pages, 6pp.)

BOX 2
1. Draft 7 `Belle'
2. Draft 7 `Control woman' (Felicity)
3. Draft 8 `Belle'
4. Draft 8 June 1996
5. Draft 9 September 1996 (reintegration of `Control woman, Felicity with the main story)
6. Draft 10 (fragment), September 1996

BOX 3.
1. Draft 11, January 1997
2. Draft 11, January 1997. Fragments of pages removed from Draft 11, together with re-written segments inserted in a new form into Draft 12
3. Partial draft 12, July 1997
4. Draft 12. Several rewrites of some scenes, chapters with no changes went straight to Draft 14, Aug-Sept 1997
5. Draft 13, re-written sections from Draft 12 only, August 1997

BOX 4
1. Draft 14, November 1997
2. Draft 15 (partial), February 1998
3. Partial draft partial, no date
4. Draft 15 (although listed as Draft 16 in Kate Grenville's own listing)
5. Draft 18 (no Draft 17 exists), June 1998. Sent to literary agent Lyn Tranter with some comments from her attached
6. Draft 19 (partial), January 1999
7. Draft 20, no date (includes 1 page list of possible titles)

BOX 5
1. Draft 23, no date. (no draft 21 exists)
2. Draft 23, no date
3. Draft 23, 3 (November 1998). Draft sent to Nikki Christer (editor at Picador) & Ivor Indyk
4. Draft 23, 3 (annotated 1999, more likely 1998). Extensively amended by Lyn Tranter

BOX 6
1. Draft 24, no date (December 1998?). Character development of Harley though the concept of husband's suicide not yet developed
2. Partial draft, December 1998. Rreworking of crucial pond scene; concept of Harley's husbands suicide


3. Draft 24, 2, December 1998
4. Draft 24, December 1998. Incorporates the husbands suicide idea

BOX 7
1. Draft 25(a), December 1998
2. Final version, January 1999. The handwritten corrections on this draft were incorporated into another version which was sent to editor Judith Lukin-Amendsen
3. Edited (marked up) manuscript, March 1999. Extensively marked up and edited by Judith Lukin-Amundsen, together with some handwritten changes by Kate Grenville
4. Drafts 1-24 (30 floppy disks, 3 1/2 in.)

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