Autobiography

Component identifier:

Series 9

Content Summary:

This series contains the first uncorrected transcription of notes for Dymphna Cusack's autobiography which she claimed she would never write. It includes many comments on literary matters and details of how her novels were written, up to The Sun is Not Enough. Because she refused her publisher's request to write her autobiography, her husband, Norman Freehill, interviewed her and from the results wrote Dymphna (published by Thomas Nelson in 1975). See also Box 18 for further drafts, and TRC1657 in the oral History Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Dymphna Cusack's papers were acquired in many consignments between 1959 and 1983. The last consignment was received after her death, from her stepson-in-law, Mr Jim McGrath.

Names:

Dymphna Cusack

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