Guide to the Papers of Brenda Walker, 1989-1996

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 8912
Creator:
Brenda Walker
Extent:
0.75 metres and (5 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Brenda Walker, National Library of Australia, MS 8912, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The collection comprises correspondence, drafts, typescripts and manuscripts relating to her writing.

The major correspondents are Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Curtis Brown Pty Ltd, Sara Dowse and Trudi Tate and the contributors to her anthology Risks.

Biographical Note:

Brenda Walker was born in New South Wales in 1957. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She now lectures in English at the University of Western Australia.

The Fremantle Arts Centre Press published her first novel, Crush, in 1991. It won the 1990 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for fiction and was short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Award. Other novels are One More River (1993) and Poe's Cat (1999).

She has co-edited three books, Katharine Susannah Prichard centenary essays with John Hay in 1984, Poetry Gender with David Brooks in 1989 and Elizabeth Jolley : new critical essays with Delys Bird in 1991.

In 1996 Walker edited Risks, an anthology of short stories. Walker also contributed to Motherlove, edited by Debra Adelaide and has published a number of articles and reviews in the field of contemporary Australian women's writing.

Provenance:

The papers were purchased from Brenda Walker by the Library in 1994 and 1997.

Indexed terms

Names:
Brenda Walker

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2361453).
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Brenda Walker, National Library of Australia, MS 8912, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Contact:
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