Guide to the Papers of Lyn Brown, 1967-1988

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 9508
Creator:
Lyn Brown
Extent:
0.42 metres and (3 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Lyn Brown, National Library of Australia, MS 9508, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:
The collection comprises correspondence from Professor Nevill Coghill (d.1980), Chaucerian scholar and theatre producer, his daughter Carol Martin and sister Katharine, and Marjorie Barnard. Also included are typescripts of Lyn Brown's unpublished works 'A chuckle in the darkness' and 'Double encounter'.
Biographical Note:

Lyn Brown was born in Fairfield, N.S.W. in 1918, the daughter of John Ingoldsby and Evelyn May Brown. She was educated at state primary schools and Parramatta High School. She obtained her B.A in 1940 and her M.A in 1946 from the University of Sydney.

Brown has travelled extensively both overseas and in Australia. Her first trip, in 1937, was with a party of Rangers, on the Guide Movement's first world tour, representing the Macquarie Division of New South Wales.

From 1942 until 1951 Brown worked at the C.S.I.R.O as an editor of scientific papers and as a librarian. It was while she was at the C.S.I.R.O. that Brown met Marjorie Barnard. From 1951 until 1965 she was at home with her three children. From 1965 until 1970 she worked in the New South Wales Departments of Education and Technical Education, as a teacher of modern languages and in 1977 was an honorary translator at the 42nd International P.E.N. Congress in Sydney. She was a teacher of French at the Georges River Community Service Adult Leisure Learning Centre at Oatley, NSW from 1982-86.

Brown is married to Frederick Charles Brown and has two sons, one daughter and, in 1993, eight grandchildren.

Brown's publications include Late summer (1970), Jacaranda and Illawarra flame (1973), Listen! Its poetry, give it a go (1973) and Going home at night (1979). She has had poetry published in various magazines, and has been a poetry reviewer and member of the Australian Society of Authors.

Provenance:

The collection was donated to the Library by Lyn Brown in 1994.

Indexed terms

Names:
Lyn Brown

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn821077).
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 Lyn Brown, National Library of Australia, MS 9508, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Contact:
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