Prose file

Containers:

Box 50

Component identifier:

File 370

Content Summary:

This file, 'typed copies, drafts, rejects', contains two prose pieces. The first is 'Save the First Dance', a boarding-school story of 6 pages, about a girl from the Dutch East Indies at what seems to be the New England Girls Grammar School. It is not in Judith Wright's collection of stories The Nature of Love (1966), and may be unpublished. The same goes for 'For Christine', 4-1/2 pages, a first-person story by a white woman about an Aboriginal child and family in an alien community.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired from Judith Wright in a number of instalments, the first of which was received in 1978. In 2002 and 2005, further papers were acquired from Wright's daughter, Meredith McKinney. In 2005, a small consignment of papers, consisting of autobiographical material given to Patricia Clarke by Wright in 2000, was received from Patricia Clarke.

Names:

Judith Wright

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