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Manuscript Name | Papers of Thelma Forshaw |
Manuscript Number | MSS 305 |
Last Updated | June 2021 |
Extent | 4 boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Manuscripts, notebooks, newspaper and magazine articles, and correspondence related to Thelma Forshaw |
Literary
The papers of author Thelma Forshaw include correspondence between Forshaw and Hal Porter, Ruth Park, Bob Ellis and Douglas Stewart along with manuscripts, notebooks, and newspaper and magazine articles
1947-1993
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Forshaw
Australian short story writer, critic and journalist Thelma Forshaw (or Thelma Korting) was born in Sydney in 1923. After studying at Sydney Teachers’ College, she served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force in the Second World War. In 1951, she began working as a freelancer and book reviewer, writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin and other publications. Her short stories were published in numerous journals and anthologies, and in 1967 a collection of them were published as An Affair of Clowns
References:
AustLit : Thelma Forshaw https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A6473 retrieved 26 May 2020
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Papers of Thelma Forshaw, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 305, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
This collection was received in three consignments
Thelma Forshaw, 1923-1995 — Archives
Journalists — Australia — Archives
Australian short stories — 20th century
Thelma Forshaw, 1923-1995
Journalists
Authors
Journalists
Literary critics
Folder 1
Correspondence from Hal Porter, Bob Ellis, Ruth Park, Douglas Stewart (1962-1984)
Folder 2
Opening episodes of The Hell of Being Holy, a comedy of failed saints, third draft
Folder 3
Draft of The Hell of Being Holy
Folder 4
Final draft, July 1979, of The Hell of Being Holy
Folder 5
Draft of The Hell of Being Holy, plus fifth draft of Hairy Goat, 27 October 1978
Folder 6
Manuscript of Hairy Goat (version begun 21 December 1978) together with fourth draft and other manuscript material
Folder 7
Manuscript of Songman, a radio play, various drafts, 1987, 1988
Folder 8
Working copy of Songman, 1988. Correspondence with Bill Beatty regarding Rogue Female, 1963-1964
Other correspondence regarding Rogue Female together with its synopsis and part of the manuscript
Folder 9
Manuscript - Rogue Female
Folder 10
Manuscript - Rogue Female
Folder 11
Manuscript - Rogue Female
Drafts of ‘The First in the Field’, 1991-1992
Folder 12
Manuscript - The Mateship Syndrome, plus letter to Dr. Ballet (?), 1975
Manuscript - Hairy Goat plus notes
Folder 13
Manuscript - Love-Life of a Boozer
Folder 14
Notes and ideas for stories 1975-1981
Third draft of Memoir of a Foreign Body (completed 7 May 1990)
Folder 15
Third draft of Memoir of a Foreign Body, May 1990
Correspondence from Stephen Murray-Smith, Manning Clark and Eugene Kamenka (1945)
Folder 16
Diary – 13 February 1980 to 11 June 1981
Folder 17
Diary – 1978 to 1983
Folder 18
Work-out of ‘The Book of Hells’
Folder 19
First draft of ‘Tales of a Foreign Body’, a memoir, begun 2 November 1988 (Memoir of a Foreign Body)
Folder 20
Second draft of ‘Commune Chiack’, 6 August 1974
Draft of The Marriage of Heathcliff
Drafts of reviews, 1976-1978, 1982
Folder 21
Notes and draft for a Mills and Boon romance
Folder 22
Manuscript of Memoir of a Foreign Body
Folder 23
Manuscript of Memoir of a Foreign Body and ‘Tales of a Foreign Body’
Folder 24
Manuscript of Memoir Of A Foreign Body
Essays written on French and American literature
Manuscripts of ‘I am not Tanderleys’(?) and ‘Laugh, Clown, Laugh’
Folder 25
Manuscript of ‘Confession of a Human Microscope’
Folder 26
Manuscript of ‘Four Walls and a Passion’ - first and second drafts, 1991
Manuscript of ‘With Schizophrenia You’re Never Alone’, a radio play
Drafts of ‘Stormy Petrel’, ‘The Master and the Mistress’ and ‘The Seance’
Folder 27
Drafts of various stories and articles - 1980, 1988-1989
Correspondence to Robin Dalton, 1975 (copy)
Folder 28
Drafts of stories 1978, 1986-1988
Photocopies of articles for Women, The Argus, Nation, Currency, The New Idea 1947-1962
Folder 29
Correspondence of Thelma Forshaw to Mrs Helen Peters, 1973, 1976-1978
Folder 30
Correspondence of Thelma Forshaw to Mrs Helen Peters (?), 1949-1977
Folder 31
Drafts notes, clippings
Folder 32
‘In the Melting Pot’ by Jill Bellamy [pseudonym], 121 pages
Folder 33
Notebook, titled ‘Notes for August, 1992 / Notes for “The Incarnate”, Nov. 28, 1993
Folder 34
Deborah Cornwall, ‘Girls just want to have fun’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 1993
Jane Cadzow, ‘Straight Down the Aisle (well, not quite…)’, Good Weekend, 24 July 1993
Ruth Ostrow, ‘Going round the gender bend’, The Weekend Australian, undated
Robert Dessaix, ‘Feeling a little Queer’, ABC Radio 24 Hours, undated
Clifford Longley, ‘Are gays part of a master plan?’, The Weekly Telegraph, undated
Folder 35
Notes for Story ‘The Naming’, 21 April 1993
‘The Naming’, 23 May 1993, first draft
‘The Naming’, 26 May 1993, second draft
Notes, 1 page, 23 August 1992 [very fragile]