Records [manuscript]. 1928-1994.

Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 1884-1969

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Writer and member of the Communist Party of Australia, 1919-1969. Wife of Hugo Throssell, V.C. Born in Levuka, Fiji, the daughter of Thomas Henry Prichard. Died in Greenmount, Western Australia. Her novels include "The Pioneers" (1915), "Windlestraws" (1916), "Black Opal" (1921), "Working bullocks" (1926), "Coonardoo" (1928), "Haxby's circus" (1929), "Intimate strangers" (1939), "The Roaring nineties" (1946), "Golden miles" (1948) and "Winged seeds" (1950). From the description of Pa...

Davison, Frank Dalby, 1893-1970

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Writer and novelist, Frank Dalby Davison won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel Man Shy (1931). His interest in soil erosion and deforestation led to his stories Blue Coast Caravan (1935), The Wasteland (1935), and Children of the Dark People (1936). Davison was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship in 1939-1940. He made political commentary through his literature "to reveal the Australian situation and to promote liberal democratic values." He saw literature as...

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-

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Emeritus Professor Laurie Hergenhan, Founding Editor, of the journal "Australian Literary Studies", worked extensively with Xavier Herbert. Xavier Herbert's best known novels are "Capricornia" (1938) and "Poor Fellow My Country" (1975). From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1976-1977. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223020754 From the description of Papers, 1976-1977. 1976-1977. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 44896497 X...

Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937

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Walter Burley Griffin was an architect and landscape architect. Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1962) was an architect who worked mainly as an architectural renderer. She was the first women to graduate, in 1894, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture. Both had previously worked for Frank Lloyd Wright at his studio in Oak Park, Illinois. From the description of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin architectural drawings, circa 1909-1937. (...

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...

MacDougall, Augusta, 1877-1945.

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Keesing, Nancy

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Educated at Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Frensham and the University of Sydney, she has been Chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council since 1974. Miss Keesing is a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Australian Jewish Historical Society, P.E.N. and vice president of the English Association (N.S.W. Branch). Publications include four books of poetry, two of criticism, an autobiography and two books for young people. She is married to Dr. A.M. ...

Pakies Club (Sydney, N.S.W.)

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The Pakies Club was founded by Mrs Augusta ('Pakie') MacDougall, wife of theatre director Duncan MacDougall, in 1929 as a meeting place and tearoom for bohemians, artists and intellectuals. Aided initially by Mrs Gladys MacDermott and decorated by Roy de Mestre, the Club operated from rooms on the second floor of 219 Elizabeth Street, Sydney until 1966. A journal entitled "Urge" was produced by Club members between 1933 and 1935. From the description of Records [manuscript]. 1928-199...

Griffin, Marion Mahony, 1871-1961

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Architect and wife of Walter Burley Griffin, architect (1876-1937). From the description of The magic of America : typescript, [between 1937 and 1949] / Marion Mahony Griffin. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58665394 ...

White, Unk

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Unk White arrived in Sydney in 1922 from New Zealand where he was born. He later became a cartoonist for The Bulletin and Punch (Melbourne), and was Secretary of the Society of Australian Black and White Artists, ca. 1925-26. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1930-1968. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225825807 ...

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...