Papers relating to P.R. Stephensen. 1899-1992.

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Papers relating to P.R. Stephensen. 1899-1992.

Proofs, manuscript drafts, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs, and ephemera, relating to P.R. Stephensen. Material bulks largest in 1930s. Includes material relating to Fanfrolico Press, Mandrake Press, The foundations of culture in Australia, and The publicist. Includes manuscript draft and proof for The animals Noah forgot, by A.B. Paterson. Correspondents include D.H. Lawrence, Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert and Dulcie Deamer.

ca. 412 items (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7035334

Libraries Australia

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Stephensen, P. R. (Percy Reginald), 1901-1965

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Percy Reginald Stephensen was editor of the Australian Mercury which appeared in July, 1935. The second issue was never published. From the description of Literary manuscripts [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225769719 ...

Lockyer, Jack.

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Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954

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Miles Franklin was born in 1879, a fifth-generation Australian, and grew up on grazing properties run by her family in the Monaro region of New South Wales. At nineteen, she wrote 'My Brilliant Career', an important study of the opportunities and expectations faced by young Australian women in the 1890s. She left Australia in 1906, travelling first to America and then to England. During the 1920s in England, she wrote pseudonymously a series of six well-received novels. In 1932 Franklin returned...

Deamer, Dulcie, 1890-1972

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Born in Christchurch, lived in Australia as an actress, journalist, novelist and poet. From the description of Mosaic of angels. [19--] (National Library of New Zealand - Wellington Service Centre). WorldCat record id: 228161877 Australian novelist. From the description of Literary manuscripts. [ca. 1930-1965] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225718038 Dulcie Deamer, 1891-1972, author, lived at Kings Cross, N.S.W. 1923-1970. She married Albert ...

Paterson, A.B. (Andrew Barton), 1864-1941

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Poet, journalist, solicitor. "Banjo" Paterson served in World War I as an ambulance driver in the Australian Hospital, Bourlogne, 1914-15. In 1915 he joined the Australian Remount Service in Egypt and Palestine. By the end of the War he had risen to the rank of Major. From the description of Letters [manuscript]. 1915-1920. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225827724 This poem by Banjo Paterson was first published in the Bulletin of 1900 May 19. It is reprinted in V...

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

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David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, near Nottingham, to Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia Beardsall. He attended Nottingham University College, and in 1908 he took a teaching position at Davidson Road School in Croydon. Lawrence wrote in his spare time, and in 1911, with the help of Ford Maddox Hueffer, he published his first novel, The White Peacock . Poor health forced him to resign his teaching job this same year, at which time he bec...