Papers of Brian & Olga Penton. [1924?-1952?]

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Papers of Brian & Olga Penton. [1924?-1952?]

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Collection contains papers of Olga and Brian Penton. Some are handwritten drafts of unpublished, untitled material. Others are typescripts of unpublished material such as 'Outrageous fortune' by Brian Penton and 'We Prometheans' by Olga Penton. There are typescripts of articles by Brian Penton. Included in the collection is a carbon typescript of 'Why Singapore fell' by H. Gordon Bennett. This was published in the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

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Penton, Olga, 1897-1972.

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Penton, Brian, 1904-1951

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Brian Penton was born in Brisbane in 1904 and educated at the Brisbane Grammar School. He was a controversial journalist and novelist whose interests ranged from literature, art and politics to yachting. He wrote first for the Sydney Morning Herald and then the Sydney Daily Telegraph where he was editor from 1941. He led the campaign against censorship of the press during the Second World War. The ensuing court case was the subject of 'Censored!' in 1947. His novel 'Landtakers', written in 1934,...