Correspondence [manuscript]. 1949-1951.

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Correspondence [manuscript]. 1949-1951.

1. Telegram, postmarked 1949 Apr. 14 to Marie McNiven, Randwick from Mary Gilmore requesting a portrait. 2. Letter, 1951 Dec. 28 to Marie McNiven from Mary Gilmore. 3. Typescript copy of letter, 1951 June 29, Carlton, N.S.W. to Marie McNiven from Miles Franklin, with a note by Roy McNiven.

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McNiven, Marie

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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...

Gilmore, Mary, 1865-1962

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Poet John Blight was born in Brisbane in 1913. He was twice awarded a 3 year Literary Board Fellowship (1973 and 1977). Other literary awards include, the Myer award (1964) and the Patrick White award (1976). His publications include The old pianist (1945), The two suns met (1954) A bushcomber's diary (1963), Hart (1975) and John Blight; selected poems 1939-1975 (1976). From the description of Letter : to John Blight [manuscript]. 1944. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 2257...