Collection 4: Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1934-1993

MLMSS 9446

sub-fonds

1934-1993

1094831

1.85 metres of textual material (13 boxes)

BOX 1
‘The George’s wife’, Rough MS.

‘The Georges wife finished with pages’, Rough MS.

‘The Georges’ wife first half’ [Chs 1-10], MS.

‘The Georges’ wife’ [Chs 11-19], MS.

BOX 2
‘The Georges’ wife’ editorial material, 1993. Includes printout with editorial corrections by Kay Ronai, correspondence with Kay Ronai and Rosemary Tribe (Penguin), and sample page proofs.

‘The Georges’ Wife’. Typescript with author’s annotations and corrections.

‘Some papers from school 1934 onwards’, ca. 1920-1939. Includes assignments and exercise books (Monica Knight).

‘Correspondence answered August 1992-August 31 1993.’

BOX 3
‘Some correspondence received Sept 1990 to Sept 1991’, together with correspondence 1975-1978.

‘Some correspondence 10.9.91 to August 3 1992’. Correspondents include Sue Woolfe, Gillian Mears, Cassandra Pybus, Nick Hasluck and Drusilla Modjeska.

BOX 4
‘Andrew Sant 1990-92 Writers Work Place’, being letter received from Julie Gibbs, Editor Allen & Unwin/Susan Haynes re and including Jolley’s ‘The Passion and the Prose’ for Sant’s ‘Toads – Australian Writers’ Other Work’. Includes photocopies of edited typescript and galley proofs.

MSS including ‘The Silver Apples of the Moon’ for Virago Press, London, Sep. 1993 and review of ‘Love from Nancy. The Letters of Nancy Mitford' edited by Charlotte Moseley (1993), MS. & corrected typescript.

‘Chiron in Ankle Socks and Velvet’ for Independent Monthly Dec. 1993, MS.

Letter received from Nancy Keesing, 5 Sep. 1990, with enclosed copies of Keesing’s correspondence with Christina Stead, 1979.

MSS including Community Aid Abroad / Freedom from Hunger One World Dinner talk, 25 June 1992; ‘Sisters’, Apr.-May 1992; article re Barry Humphries, Sep. 1993 for Channel 4 Television (UK); ‘Memorable Christmas’ for ‘Women’s Weekly’, Dec. 1993; article for Delys Bird’s ‘The Book of Radio Plays.’

Darling Downs Press and FACP from the 1970s’, being mainly letters received, 1978-1992 from Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

‘F.A.C.P. / Darling Downs / AATE / Currency Press / Sisters Publishing, 1978-1985, being mainly letters received from FACP.

BOX 5
‘Quick at Meals, Quick at Work’ for ‘The Age’, Aug. 1993, MS. and rough MS.

‘Kate Grenville/Sue Woolfe’. Being a letter received from Kate Grenville, 2 Aug. 1991, re enclosed selections from Jolley’s ‘Mr Scobie’s Riddle’ for ‘Revisions’ [Making Stories] (1993).

Papers re RANZCP 26th Annual Congress, Perth, 13-17 May 1990, being mainly Jolley’s address, ‘Strange regions there are, strange minds, strange realms of the spirit, lofty and spare’, MS. and corrected typescript; together with review of ‘Hidden in the heart’ by Dan Jacobson (1991).

‘Correspondence (Publishing)’, 1984-1990. Being mainly letters received from ‘The New Yorker’; Viking (USA); Persea Books, NY; Elise Goodman, USA, literary agent; Viking, Penguin, (London); Sinclair-Stevenson, London; and Harper & Row (USA).

‘Central Mischief’, edited typescript.

BOX 6
‘Reviews’, 1980s-1992, being reviews, articles and interviews re Jolley and her work, newscuttings and photocopies. Includes a letter from Drusilla Modjeska enclosing her review of ‘Cabin Fever’, 6 Nov. 1990.

Reviews of ‘White Stag of Exile’ by Thomas Shapcott for Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet, 1984, and ‘Jump and Other Stories’ by Nadine Gordimer (1991) for ‘West Australian’ 1991, MS. and corrected typescript.

Review of ‘Patrick White: A Life’ by David Marr (1991), for ‘Scripsi’, 1991, MS.

Reviews of ‘Central Mischief’ and other works by Jolley, and letters received from Annabelle Murray-Smith (Penguin), 25 May 1992 and 27 Oct. 1992.

MSS / Views on War / ‘The Age’ Feb 1991’, being drafts of, among others, ‘Authors’ views on war’ for ‘The Age’, Feb. 1991; review of ‘Hopeful Monsters’ by Nicholas Mosley (1990); talk for Gerontology Conference Dinner, 1987; talk for Library Luncheon, WA, 1984; ‘The Shepherd on the Roof’(a monologue for stage performance)’, MS. and corrected typescript.

BOX 7
‘Inspector Blunt / Sugar Crisis / This Lorelei This Rhine Maiden / and her mother in the wheat’, 1991, MS.

Review of ‘Iron John : A Book about Men’ by Robert Bly (1991), MS.

‘Black Country Farm / BBC 1991-2 / for BBC ‘Short Story’, MS.

MS. extracts of ‘Diary of a Weekend Farmer; review of ‘Hidden in the Heart’ by Dan Jacobson (1991); address to graduating midwives at the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Subiaco, WA, 1992; ‘Monologue Sugar Crisis Hon Dorothea; ‘The Magic of the Imagination and the Power of Suggestion in fiction’, 1992.

The ‘Monologue: Lorelei in the Wheat’; ‘Monologue for Stage [Miss Emily Vales]’, Feb.-Mar. 1992; MS. for ‘The Sisters’.

Reviews of ‘Cabin Fever’, photocopies.

‘Motherhood’ for ‘New Woman’ magazine, Jan. 1992.

Issue of ‘Tabloid Story’, 1978 Adelaide Festival Edition, featuring ‘The Owner of Grief or the Outworks of the Kingdom’ by Jolley.

‘ALM 1979-1983-84 / 1984-1986’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others including Nancy Keesing, Kate Grenville.

BOX 8
‘ALM Lurie to Jolley / Letters 1986-1988’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others including Ruth Cracknell, Alex Miller, Helen Daniel, Kate Grenville.

‘Correspondence 16.1.89 to 15.12.89. ALM 1989 mostly’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others.

BOX 9
‘ALM correspondence from Dec 1989 to Jan 1990 to Sept 1991’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others including Sue Woolfe and Dale Spender.

‘ALM Letters from Caroline Lurie to Elizabeth Jolley 3.1.91 to 16.8.93’ [27 Aug. 1993’, being correspondence mainly with Australian Literary Management and others, including Australian and international publishers and institutions.

BOX 10
Papers, 1991-1992 re author’s publicity tour for ‘Central Mischief’ and ‘Cabin Fever’.

Reviews of ‘Cabin Fever, 1990, photocopies.

Papers re 1991 Herbert Blaiklock Memorial Lecture, ‘Temporary Residents: The Death Bed and The Chaise Longue, The Writer’s Approach to Death; and MS of ‘Wood’ for Curtin University, 1991?

Correspondence, 1978-1991, mainly with university of Queensland Press. Includes rejection letter from Craig Munro, 30 July 1979 re ‘Woman in a Lampshade’.

Letters received, 1989-1993, from school children and others.

‘Reviews June 1986-July1987’, being reviews of works by Jolley.

BOX 11
‘Reviews 1987 to March 1989’, being reviews of works by Jolley.

Papers, 1983-1984, being correspondence with Darwin Community College staff re Jolley’s inaugural lecture for the 1984 Women’s Studies Program, ‘Chocolate has its own melancholy: a look at the portrayal of women by a selection of Australian writers’; papers re 3rd SPACLALS Conference, Macquarie University, 1984.

Papers re Melbourne publicity tour, 1992. Include correspondence with Annabelle Murray-Smith and Stephen Knight.

Papers re 1988 Carnivale, Sydney and 1988 Spoleto Melbourne Festival.

Papers re 1990 Festival of Perth, with reviews of works by Jolley and a copy of ‘Elizabeth Jolley’s The Newspaper of Claremont Street: A Stage play’ by Alan Becher and David Britten, 1986.

BOX 12
Papers, 1989-1991, re Canadian literary festivals and Jolley’s winning the 1989 Canada-Australia Prize.

Papers re 1990 Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

Papers re 1990 Melbourne Writers’ Festival and the launching of ‘Cabin Fever’.

Papers, 1992-1993, mainly re 1993 Festival of Perth including Jolley’s stage monologue, ‘Lorelei in the Wheat’.

Papers, 1991-1993, re the 1992 Victorian Association for the Teaching of English State Conference and the 1993 VCE Writing Workshops.

Papers, 1992-1993, re the 1993 Australian National Word Festival, Canberra.

Papers re Swy Theatre Company production of ‘The Newspaper of Claremont Street’ (2nd season, 1993).

BOX 13 RESTRICTED
Letters and postcards received from Helen Garner, 1982-1991.

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 9446/ BOX 13

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