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Manuscript Name | Papers of Sandra Burchill |
Manuscript Number | MSS 123 |
Last Updated | August 2021 |
Extent | 5 boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Research papers, biographical notes and correspondence relating to Burchill's work for Dorothy Green on the Oxford companion to Australian literature (1985) and A History of Australian literature (1984-1985). Also including research notes and photocopies regarding the life and work of Katharine Susannah Prichard, and original material relating to poet and theatre director John Joseph Jones. |
Literary
This collection chiefly comprises research papers amassed by Sandra Burchill in her role as research assistant to literary academic Dorothy Green, including biographical notes and correspondence relating to entries published in the Oxford companion to Australian literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985 and Volume 3 of A history of Australian literature. Revised edition. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984-1985. Also included are papers documenting the David Campbell Seminar, Duntroon House, 19-20 September 1985, and research undertaken on the history of Australian literature teaching in schools and universities, including photocopied extracts from school readers and university calendars. Of special interest are two boxes of research notes and photocopied material relating to the life and work of Katharine Susannah Prichard (the subject of Burchill’s doctoral thesis), and a short sequence of material relating to the British-Australian poet, folk singer, musician, playwright and theatre director, John Joseph Jones, documenting productions at the Parkerville Amphitheatre (near Perth, WA) in the early 1970s.
1972-1985
Sandra Burchill is a literary scholar and university administrator who retired from the role of Executive Officer to the Rector, UNSW Canberra, in 2018. Burchill holds the distinction of being the first female to be awarded a PhD from UNSW Canberra (1988), for her thesis on the novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard.
Prior to and following her doctoral project, Burchill worked for 20 years in the private sector and in various higher education administrative roles in Australia and overseas, including the University of Qld, James Cook University and the Australian National University, before returning to UNSW Canberra.
Whilst a UNSW student Burchill was an assistant to the eminent academic, scholar, critic, writer and poet Dorothy Green, undertaking research for several literary articles and Green’s collection of critical essays, The Music of Love. Ringwood: Penguin, 1984.
References:
Dr Sandra Burchill: first female to receive a PhD at UNSW Canberra (1988) https://alumni.unsw.edu.au/international-womens-day-2018/sandra-burchill retrieved 22 January 2019
Access: Open Access
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Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved
Papers of Sandra Burchill, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 123, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
The collection was donated by Sandra Burchill to the Academy Library in two consignments in 1989 and 1994
Further material relating to the Oxford companion to Australian literature is located in the Papers of Dorothy Green at MSS 020
Additional papers of Dorothy Green are held by the National Library of Australia at MS 5678
Australian literature
Australian literature - History and criticism
Australian literature - Study and teaching - History
Oxford companion to Australian literature (1985)
A history of Australian literature (1984-1985)
Dorothy Green 1915-1991
W.H. (William Henry) Wilde 1923-
David Campbell 1915-1979
Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883-1969
John Joseph Jones 1930-2000
Parkerville Amphitheatre (WA)
Literary historian
Folder 1
‘Australian Studies: the Untaught Tradition’ by Dorothy Green and William H. Wilde – typescript manuscripts, notes and corrected galley proof extract
Folder 2
David Campbell Seminar, Duntroon House, 19-20 September 1985 – bibliography and program
The New Zealand Slavonic journal, no. 1, 1980
Journal article – untitled
David Campbell words spoken at his funeral by Manning Clark. Canberra: Brindabella Press, 1979, signed by Clark
Personal correspondence from Judy Campbell (4 letters)
Correspondence from Harry Heseltine (3 letters), Cambridge University Library and Jesus College, Cambridge
Handwritten list of additions to David Campbell bibliography
Typescript of additions and amendments to Campbell bibliography
Photocopies relating to David Campbell: sheet of photographs and other biographical items regarding David Campbell; pages from The Kings’ School magazine; handwritten notes of David Campbell; news article of death of David Campbell; review of Poetry Australia – 80th issue on David Campbell; news article; poetry ‘On the Death of David Campbell’ by Peter Skrzynecki; typescript ages of poetry; family tree; maps; review by Judith Rodriguez – with references to David Campbell; poetry of David Campbell from Jesus College, Cambridge (UK); a reference to David Campbell in New Guinea diary – tropic sideshow; review ‘Flame and Shadow’
Folder 3
The Oxford companion to Australian literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985 – biographical notes and correspondence: Jack Beasley; Norma Bloom; Godfrey Blunden; Mona Brand; Dominic Broderick; Alison Broinowski; David Brooks; Doreen Clarke; William Dick; Anne Edgeworth; Mary Edgeworth David; Brian Elliott; Patricia Excell; Lynn Foster; Len Fox; Jean Gittins; Clem Gorman; John Griffin; I.P. Haldane-Stevenson; Les Harrop; Enid Heddle; Marjorie Pizer Holburn; A.D. Hope; Walter James
Folder 4
The Oxford companion to Australian literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985 – biographical notes and correspondence: Penelope Janic; Robert Kaleski; Wallace Kirsop; Stuart Lee; Nuri Mass; John Meredith; Reginald Morrison; Marcie Muir; Elizabeth Perkins; Ted Roberts; Betty Roland; Henry Maurice Saxby; Samuel Simmans; S.N. Stewart; Ross Thorne; Ania Walwicz; Peter Lindsay Weir; Joan Williams
Folder 5
Miscellaneous biographical information
Betty Roland: List of tapes from ‘Wombat’ News Service
Gordon Neil: Program ‘Sturt’ world premiere, Garrick Theatre, Parkerville Amphitheatre, 17 February-11 March 1972 – written and directed by John Joseph Jones, choreography by Josephine Spaull; Program ‘Harvest’, Creative Organic Drama, Tom Dougherty’s Theatre 15 November-1 December 1973 – written and directed by John Joseph Jones; Program ‘Bitter Grapes’ world premiere, Parkerville Amphitheatre, Tom Dougherty’s Theatre – by John Joseph Jones, directed by Collin O’Brien, [March 1973]
John Joseph Jones. A Day at Hiroshima, Parkerville and other poems. Hovea, WA: Parkerville Amphitheatre, c1973 – photocopy of annotated proofs
Typescript resume: Peter Lennox Jeffery
Typescript preface to collection of poems by Charles Harpur
Folder 6-8
Biographical records for Australian writers – compiled by Dorothy Green, for a proposed Volume 3 of A history of Australian literature. Revised edition. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984-1985:
Robert Adamson; Allen Afterman; Jessica Anderson; Thea Astley; Murray Bail; Bruce Beaver; Jennifer Boult; Russell Braddon; John Bray; Barry Breen; Niall Brennan; Bob Brissenden; Colleen Burke; John Burns; Alexander Buzo; Ivy Calthorpe; Peter Carey; Nancy Cato; Don Charlwood; Alex Choate; Alexander Craig; Josephine Blanche d’Alpuget; Russell Deeble; Alma de Groen; Robert Drewe; Michael Dugan; David Foster; Donald Friend; Raymond Frye; Katherine Gallagher; Nene Gare; Helen Garner; G.M. Glaskin; Alan Gould; Cliff Green; Rodney Hall; Eunice Hanger; Barbara Hanrahan; Elizabeth Harrower; Keith Harrison; Kevin Hart; Gwen Harwood; Nicholas Hasluck; Kris Hemensley; Helen Heney; Dorothy Hewett; Barry Hill; Donald Horne; Thomas Hungerford; David Ireland; Barbara Jefferis; John Jenkin; Evan Jones; Rae Jones; Manfred Jurgensen; Nancy Keesing; Antigone Kefala; Stephen K. Kelen; Frank Kellaway; Gwen Kelly; Peter Kenna; Peter Kocan; Rudi Krausmann; Andrew Lansdown; Joan Lindsay; Miles Little; Andrew McDonald; Roger McDonald; Craig McGregor; Ronald McKie; Rhyll McMaster; James McQueen; Jennifer Maiden; George Malouf; David Martin; Philip Martin; John Millett; Frank Moorhouse; Robert Morrison; Les Murray; Michele Nayman; Philip Neilsen; Barry; Mark O’Connor; Geoff Page; Grace Perry; Nancy Phelan; Craig Powell; Bill Reed; Philip Roberts; Judith Rodriguez; Eric Rolls; John Romeril; Graham Rowlands; Olaf Ruhen; Thomas Shapcott; Ron Simpson; Peter Skrzynecki; Vivian Smith; Leone Sperling; Jennifer Strauss; Norman Talbot; Andrew Taylor; Colin Thiele; Tom Thompson; Ric Throssell; Richard Tipping; Christine Townend; John Tranter; Vicki Viidikas; Kathleen Walker; Lyndon Walker; Judah Water; Morris West; Susan Whiting; Michael Wilding; David Williamson; Fay Zwicky
Folder 9
Research notes relating to the history of teaching Australian literature in schools and universities, 1910-1940
Exhibition catalogue ‘The Arts in Australia – Her Story’, Mitchell & Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, 20 September 1982-21 March 1983
Folder 10
Photocopied extracts:
Victorian readers – 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th books
Oxford reading books I, II, IV
The Temple literary readers, Books 2 and 7
Path to Parnassus
High road of Australian verse
New song in an old land
In fealty to Apollo
Palgrave’s golden treasury
Australian university verse: an undergraduate anthology, 1920-22
The bond of poetry: a book of verse for Australian schools
Folder 11
Photocopied secondary source extracts relating to the history of teaching Australian literature in schools and universities
Folder 12
Photocopied extracts relating to Australian literature studies:
University of Sydney calendar, 1920-1940, 1945-1946
Folder 13
Photocopied extracts:
Melbourne University calendar, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944
Canberra University College, 1930-1931, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1938
West Australia. Education Department. The curriculum for primary schools, 1936
Western Australian reader. Book IV, 1933
University of Western Australia. Manuals of public examination, 1948
Folder 14
Photocopied extracts:
The Victorian readers, 3rd-4th books
Preparatory professional course, [1913]
Education gazette and teachers’ aid (Victoria), 23 May 1912
Education gazette and teachers’ aid (Victoria), 19 October
Education gazette and teachers’ aid (Victoria), 17 July 1940
Folder 15
Photocopied extracts:
The Victorian readers, 5th-8th books
Folder 16
Photocopied extracts:
Queensland school readers. Books I-VI
Queensland school readers, Grades I-VII
Queensland’s school paper, Classes V and VI, 1905
Folder 17
Photocopied extracts:
University of Queensland calendar, 1921-1922, 1925-1937, 1945
University of Queensland. Manuals of public examination, 1925-1926
Folder 18-19
Photocopied articles relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard
Folder 20-21
Photocopied reviews relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard
Folder 22-23
Photocopied biographical and literary articles relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard, including obituaries and personal recollections
Folder 24
Photocopied articles relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard, including typescript extracts from the writer’s notebooks
Folder 25
Micro-negative copies of extracts obtained from the Bridges Memorial Library (Duntroon) and State Library of Victoria, possibly including: Westralian Worker, 10 or 16 December 1921; ‘Farthing Bundle’, Daily News & Leader (London), 16 December 1913; Katharine Susannah Prichard short stories ‘Bush Fires’, ‘That Brown Boy’
Folder 26-27
Photocopied articles documenting the political backdrop to Katharine Susannah Prichard’s writing, including: communism, Andrei Zhdanov, literary censorship, Egon Kish anti-war movement, League of American Writers
Folder 28-29
Photocopied short stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard
Folder 30
Photocopied short stories by Katharine Susannah Prichard
Folder 31
Photocopied notes relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard from: Vance and Nettie Palmer Papers (National Library of Australia) and Miles Franklin Papers (Mitchell Library), including a photograph of a drawing of Prichard, and image of Prichard with Nettie Palmer
Folder 32
Photocopied notes relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard from: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Hazel de Berg interview, Mary Gilmore Papers, 1940 Commonwealth Literary Fund application
Folder 33-34
Photocopied articles and notes relating to Katharine Susannah Prichard, including micro-negative copy of ‘An Encounter’