Records, 1917-1993 [manuscript] 1917-1993.

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Records, 1917-1993 [manuscript] 1917-1993.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial and administrative records, newsletters and bulletins of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland Section (FAW(Q)), and some records of the Fellowship's Redcliffe branch and national and interstate bodies. Papers, typescripts, handwritten manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and personal ephemera of FAW(Q) founding member Constance Gittins. Copies of bulletins produced by the Realist Writers' Group Brisbane.

9 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8028033

University of Queensland, UQ Library

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Queensland Authors and Artists Association

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Gittins, Constance

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Mrs. Gittins was born at Gympie and lived at Manly and Glen Aplin. She was a reular contributor to the Daily and Sunday Mail, Everylady's Jornal, Farmers Gazette and the Australian Christian World. She was mentioned in Kellow's Queensland Poets and was a foundation member of the Queensland Authors and Artists Association. From the description of OM70-44 Constance Gittins Papers, 1890-1950. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755732430 ...

Fellowship of Australian Writers. Queensland Section

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The Queensland Section of the Fellowship of Australian Writers had its genesis in the Queensland Authors and Artists' Association (QAAA), formed in Brisbane in 1921. Founding members included A.H. Davis (aka Steele Rudd), poet Constance Gittins and Dr Francis Cumbrae Stewart, later appointed Professor of Law at the University of Queensland. In 1928 Davis, Mary Gilmore, John le Gay Brereton and others met in Sydney to form a national body that would foster and promote Australian writing. The new ...