Papers of Jennifer Compton, 1961-1999 [manuscript]. [1961-1999]

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Papers of Jennifer Compton, 1961-1999 [manuscript]. [1961-1999]

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MS Acc04/58 comprises personal and business correspondence, 20 volumes of diaries and notebooks, 1961-1998, scripts of stage plays that have been performed and other stage scripts, radio plays that have been performed and other radio plays, television scripts, manuscript drafts of poems and other writings. Correspondents include Compton's husband, Matthew O'Sullivan, her mother and sister and other family in New Zealand. The business correspondence includes letters from Compton's agent Howard Nicholson, editors Rodney Hall and Les Murray and publishers including the ABC, Radio New Zealand and Caxton Press (8 boxes, 5 cartons, 1 oversize box).

3.25 m. (8 boxes) + 5 cartons + 1 oversize box.

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Compton, Jennifer, 1949-...

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Poet and playwright. Jennifer Compton was born in 1949 in New Zealand where she lived until 1971. From 1972 Compton divided her time between Australia and New Zealand, finally settling at Wingello in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales in 1981. She has published several volumes of poetry, including From the other woman (1993), Blue (2000), and Parker & Quink (2004). Her plays include The big picture (1999). Compton was the winner of the Robert Harris poetry prize in 1995 for her poem "...