Tess Van Sommers aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1943-2011

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs, Graphic Materials

9661092

1.88 metres of textual material (8 boxes)

Tess van Sommers (1919-2011) was a journalist, feature writer, columnist and literary critic. In 1966 she became Executive Editor of Books for Reader's Digest, Australia. During 1967 she worked in New York for Readers' Digest. She also published a number of books including Sydney Sketchbook (1965), Religions in Australia (1966), Historic Parramatta (1978) and Sydney Harbour (1981). As a columnist she wrote a weekly humorous piece for The Sun (Sydney) called ‘Of All Things’. Other weekly columns were ‘Book Talk’ and ‘Point of View’. She married the journalist and yachtsman Lou d'Alpuget, father of the novelist and biographer Blanche d'Alpuget.

Library correspondence file

COLLECTION 1:
Tess Van Sommers papers, 1943-1993

COLLECTION 2:
Tess Van Sommers further papers, 1967-1997

COLLECTION 3:
Tess Van Sommers further papers 1954-2006