Australian literature - Manuscripts

In 1965 Angus and Robertson published The Poems of Shaw Neilson, introduced and edited by Professor A. R. Chisholm. The edition contains 172 poems…

Analyses in detail donations made under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme to the National Library of Australia by Morgan, Modjeska and Hewett.

Discusses and compares drafts, revisions, and typescript fragments of Capricornia (particularly of Chapter Three) with regard to the imaginative vision of the novel.

Discusses a dramatic sketch (‘Peter Plover’s Party’) by Patrick White written for a performance in London.

The manuscript of Stella Miles Franklin's play 'The Survivors' is marked 'Shawondasee, August, 1908'. Shawondasee is in the small, historic seaside town of Stonington, Connecticut…

Discusses the 'process whereby the Library built up its Richardson collections [the only surviving papers directly assembled and kept by Richardson during her lifetime] over…

Within the Mitchell Library inside the State Library of New South Wales lie the manuscripts of ten novels submitted by Eve Langley to Angus &amp…

In January and February 1983, while researching David McKee Wright's poetry and critical writings, I discovered among his papers (donated by his daughter April Hersey)…

Morse discusses the editing of A.D. Hope's Selected Poems (1975), including her approach to Hope's work, choice of poems and the volume's intended readership.

Lacken discusses manuscripts of early works by Peter Carey: three unpublished novels—‘Wog’, ‘The Futility Machine’, ‘Adventures aboard the Marie Celeste’—and a collection of short stories—‘Slides…

Christina Stead had her first two books published in London in 1934. It was an impressive literary debut by what the Bulletin called 'a Sydney…

Discusses new papers discovered at the La Trobe Library.

Examines three Mitchell Libraries manuscripts on the life of Louisa Lawson, one written by herself, and two by her daughter Gertrude, and discusses their role…

Education is a recurring concern in Stead's fiction, but nowhere is it more prominent as a theme than in her unpublished and largely ignored manuscript…

This selection of Christina Stead's student publications was edited by Margaret Harris to accompany her essay, 'Christina Stead's Earliest Publications.'

Critics who value Christina Stead’s radical politics often find the passionate excess and the spectral and ambiguous qualities that attend her fiction harder to explain…