Collection 3: Kate Jennings further papers, 1965-1997

MLMSS 11633

sub-fonds

1965-1997

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Musical Sound Recordings

9611705

0.8 metres of textual material (5 boxes) includes photographs

Box 1

Correspondence

Comprises correspondence which was kept in folders and has been re-ordered within those folders alphabetically.

Folder 1a

Adelaide Festival of Arts Inc, 13 November 1974
Advertiser Newspapers (Max Fatchen), 2 June 1977
Robyn Archer, 5 September 1977 and two others, undated
Margaret Atwood, 18 May 1978
Australian Council for the Arts (Michael Costigan), 29 October 1974
George Barnes, 12 June
Leonard Baylie, 19 December 1974
Sallie Berriff, 24 March 1975
Patricia Barraclough, 26 September 1978 and others, undated
Bill Beard, two letters, undated
Anne Bickford, three letters and a poem, 11 April 1973 – 16 October 1975
Phyllis Chesler 4 February 1975
Colin Corrigan, 28 September 1974
Moya Costello, 1 letter, undated
Rosemary Creswell, two letters and a poem, 9 September 1974, 9 September 1977
Joan Fanning, copy of a letter written to Digger, undated
Liz Fell, 29 September 1976
Carole Ferrier, 13 October 1973
Helen Garner, two and a half letters, 3 May 1975
Angela Giblin, part letter, undated
Elizabeth Hess, one letter, undated
Kerryn Higgs, 1 October
Yvonne Hyde, 14 June 1973
Deborah (Cook) McCulloch, 8 February 1974
Wesley Milgate, 17 October 1972
Drusilla Modjeska, seven letters and two postcards, 5 January 1975 - 14 April 1977
Joan Moran, 20 September
Meaghan Morris, two postcards, 1976
Nation Review (Michael Morris), 28 July 1975
Erin Pizzey (Women’s Aid), 24 January 1974
Elizabeth Reid (Prime Minister’s Office), 20 November 1974
Margaret Roadknight, seven letters and a postcard, 5 January 1977 – 4 July 1978

Folder 1b

Catharine Stimpson, three letters, 8 July 1978 – 20 January 1979
Anne Summers, five letters and two postcards, ca. 1975-1978
Dany Torsh, 2 June 1977
Paula Taylor, 15 August 1976, 30 August 1976
Carol Treloar, 6 March 1978
David Upham, 20 September 1970
Carolyn van Langenberg, 28 January 1978
Virginia Wilton, 15 letters and three postcards, 3 April 1972 – 1 October 1977
Gillian Waite, (ABC), 1 July 1974
Chris Westwood, two postcards, 12 January 1975, July
Sondra A. K. Wilson, one letter, undated
Elizabeth Wood, two letters, 18 April 1977
Pat Woolley, two postcards and a letter, 26 April 1977 – 10 February 1978
Sandra Zumbo, 4 June 1978, 27 September 1978

Folder 2

Rob Knottenbolt, twelve letters, one photograph, three notes and telegram, undated


Folder 3

Don Andrews, six postcards, two cards and a letter, 20 August 1973 – 18 March 1977
Bill Bonney, six letters, 25 September 1977 – 21 April 1978
Grant Evans, two notes, two letters and a postcard, undated
Phillip Frazer, one postcard, two letters, two notes, 7 October 1976 - 21 July 1978
Richard Neville, one letter, one postcard, undated
Colin Talbot, two letters, undated
Robert Tipping, one letter, undated
Ten telegrams, 27 June 1971 – 25 December 1975

Folder 4

Andrew Stewart correspondence, 1967 – 1978

Folder 5

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1966-1978. Correspondents include Don Anderson, W.L. Bonney, Al Grassby, Jim Sherwood and Colin Waddy. Includes photocopied letter from Les Murray and copy of an exchange between Phyllis Chesler and Janet Hall, 1975

Folder 6

Draft and unsent correspondence

Folder 7

Family correspondence includes letters from Jennings' father, mother, aunt Lorna Lamy and John Stephenson

Box 2

Juvenilia includes poetry written at High School, Leaving Certificate, 1965

University essays and other writing including 'Aunt Dot’s Camel', 'Save Me Joe Louis', 'Terminal Naivety', 1975, Possible Directions for Feminist Writers

Papers relating to Jennings' front lawn speech, Sydney University, 18 September 1970 including original typed, edited and annotated speech transcript, drafts and preliminary notes relating to the speech, article ‘a Woman on the front lawn', two copies of the flyer ‘watch out you may meet a real castrating female…’ distributed at the event and an original photograph of Jennings at the event

Notes, notebook and speaking cards includes draft speeches, draft letters, quotes from authors, songwriters, music lyrics

Essays, published and unpublished articles and poetry, and printed transcripts, includes article for the National Times on South Australia’s rape laws (edited by Anne Summers), interview with Alison Stewart, The Bulletin and a letter to the editor by Jennings in response (1988), 1970-1988

Manuscript and typed poems for and by Jennings. Poets include Phillip Frazer, Grant Evans, Mark Gillespie and Stephanie B.

Martin Johnston papers including 'Shadowmass', original typed poem 'the sea-cucumber (for Ray Crooke)' and a flyer for the Sixth Annual General Balmain Reading of Prose and Verse, 1971

Box 3

Typescript, lightly corrected copy of 'Dusty Spring'
field Grows Up

Edited draft typescript of 'Save me, Joe Louis'

Book reviews by Jennings, published and original including a review of Damned Whores and God’s Police by Anne Summers, correspondence, speech transcripts, newspaper cuttings
Issues of 'Me Jane', 'Tharunka', 'The Bulletin' and 'Khasmik' featuring Jennings' work, 1970-1997

Photographs and negatives

Box 4

Comprises books from Jennings' collection, some annotated or with pages bookmarked

'Monster', Robin Morgan (1961)
'Heresies', First issue (1977)
'Amazon Odyssey', Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974)
'No More Fun & Games', A journal of Female Liberation, Issue 3, April 1970
'The Female State', A journal of Female Liberation, Issue 4, April 1970
'No More Masks!' An Anthology of Poems, Ed. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass (1973) bookmarked by a postcard from Carol Treloar
'Make up', Mark Gillespie (1977)
Penguin Modern Poets 10', The Mersey Sound, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten (1979)
'Intervention: revolutionary Marxist journal', 10/11, August 1978
'Gullibles Travels', Jill Johnston (1974)
'Women, Resistance and Revolution', Sheila Rowbotham (1972)
'Patriarchal Attitudes', Eva Figes (1970)
'Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution', Jill Johnston (1973)
'The Female Man', Joanna Russ (1975)
'Come to me my Melancholy Baby', Kate Jennings (1975)
'Mother, I’m Rooted', Ed. Kate Jennings (1975) Includes a photograph of Jennings, Kate Millett and ‘Liz’
'Bad Manners: Kate Jennings Essays' (1993)
'Snake', Kate Jennings, Minerva (1996)
'Snake', Kate Jennings, Fourth Estate (2000)
'Moral Hazard', Kate Jennings (2002)
'Imagination Dead Imagine', Samuel Beckett (1965)
'The rape journal', Dell Fitzgerald-Richards (1973)

Box 5

Originals and copies of feminist and university publications:

SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, photocopy (1968)
'The union recorder' Vol. 50, No. 23, October 1, 1970
'Chrysalis', No. 1, 1977
'Digger', No. 28, March 24, 1974
'Radical feminist shrew', Vol 5, No. 2, April 1973
'Leather Jacket, No. 2', June 1973
'Me Jane', Nos 1, 3-8, 1971-1972
'Refractory Girl', Nos 1, 7, 1972-1974
'It ain't me babe', Vol. 1, Nos. 10, 16, 1970
'Anarcho-Surrealist Insurrection Feminists', June, September 1973
'Get Out', No. 8
'Seven Days', Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1977
1976 Australian Woman’s Calendar
Various newsletters

Robyn Archer, 'Things are so Slow', vinyl, 45 rpm recording, 1977
Skyhooks, 'Straight in a Gay, Gay World', audio cassette, 1976
Testamur, Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Catherine Jennings

Correspondence was kept in separate folders, as noted. This arrangement was retained but correspondence has been arranged alphabetically within those folders.

Restricted: Prior approval is required for access. Any requests for access will be referred to the Head of Manuscripts. If permission is granted to access the collection, the reader is required to sign an undertaking not to make any use of information contained therein, in conversation or in writing, that could cause pain or embarrassment to any living person.

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