Guide to the Papers of Elizabeth Riddell, 1982-1990

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 9235
Creator:
Elizabeth Riddell
Extent:
0.15 metres and (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Elizabeth Riddell, National Library of Australia, MS 9235, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:
The collection includes drafts of poems and reviews by Riddell and correspondence with Barrett Reid and Stephen Murray-Smith.
Biographical Note:

Poet, journalist and reviewer. Riddell was born in 1910 in Napier, New Zealand. She came to Australia in 1925 to work for Erza Norton.

During the War Riddell worked as a War Correspondent in London for the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror. She came back to Sydney at the end of the War to work for the Daily Mirror and The Australian.

Between 1948 and 1994 she published six books of poetry, including the Selected poems (1972) and her works also appeared in journals (including Overland and The Bulletin). She was won the Grace Leven Prize (1971), the Christopher Brennan Award (1971), the NSW Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (1992), NSW Book of the year (1992) and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society (1993).

Riddell died in Sydney in 1998.

Provenance:

The papers were donated in 1995, under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, to the National Library.

Arrangement:

Riddell kept the papers in files and the arrangement has been preserved by the Library.

Indexed terms

Names:
Elizabeth Riddell

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1761691).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Elizabeth Riddell, National Library of Australia, MS 9235, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Contact:
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