Consignment received July 2022, 1928-2021

Component identifier:

Class 2

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises papers pertaining to Rowley's biographies: 'Christina Stead: A Biography (1994)', 'Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001),' 'Tête-à-tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir Jean-Paul Sartre' (2005), 'Franklin Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage' (2010). They include Rowley's correspondence with her subjects and those who knew them, photographs, research files, transcripts and notes of interviews, manuscripts and other papers. Of note is an original letter from Simone de Beauvoir, and original letters of Christina Stead. Other correspondents include Clem Christesen, Harper Lee, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, William Vanden Heuvel, Constance Webb, Richard Wright, Barbara Baer, Oliver Stallybrass and Toril Moi, There are papers for other work on topics such as 'The Hollywood Ten' and a copy of Rowley's thesis 'The Female Experience in the Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc'. Journals, diaries, notes and log books provide further insight into Rowley's research work conducted in Australia and overseas.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased by the Library from Hazel Rowley in 1996.

Subjects:

Society and culture
History

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