Queer Birds / by D. H. Souter

MLMSS 11751/Box 1X

fonds

between 1887 and 1935

9669189

0.23 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript

David Henry Souter (1862-1935) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and settled in Sydney in 1887. He was a popular cartoonist, who contributed at least one cartoon a week to The Bulletin over a forty-year period. His varied creative output included paintings, posters, bookplates and book illustrations (for authors including Ethel Turner). Souter also wrote poetry, librettos, produced plays for Sydney's Repertory Theatre and served as editor of Art and Architecture. He was actively involved in the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and the breakaway Society of Artists, with figures such as Julian Ashton and Norman Lindsay.

Reference
Library correspondence file

Typed manuscript of D. H. Souter's unpublished novel, 'Queer Birds'. The manuscript is 216 leaves long and has been annotated by the author. The story is set in 1890s Sydney and follows the lives of four struggling artists and singers.

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Date range based on year D. H. Souter arrived in Sydney and his death.