Ruth Park letters received from Dame Mary Gilmore, 15 January 1946-28 April 1953, including two letters to D'Arcy Niland, 11 September and 28 September 1948

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1946-1953

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Ruth Park was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She came to Australia in 1942 and married the writer, D'Arcy Niland. Her novel, 'The harp in the south', won first prize in the Sydney Morning Herald novel competition and was published in 1948. Her next novel, 'Poor man's orange', was published in 1949 and in the U.S.A. in 1951

Dame Mary Gilmore, 1865-1962, was appointed D.B.E. in 1937 in recognition of her literary and social achievements. Her final volume of poems, 'Fourteen men', was published in 1954 on her 89th birthday

D'Arcy Niland won several literary prizes between 1948 and 1952. In 1955 his novel. 'The Shiralee', was published and won international acclaim

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