Original consignment received 1996

Component identifier:

Class MS 9000

Content Summary:

The papers in MS 9000 comprise writing and publishing correspondence, correspondence with school children, drafts, synopses, maps, notes research material, cuttings, page and cover proofs, flyers and other papers relating to her novels and children's books Five times dizzy, Dancing in the Anzac deli, The house that was Eureka, The blooding, My place, and, Lucy in the leap year. Also includes papers relating to her book of short stories, The night Tolkien died, her dealings with the ABC over the series 'The museum of here and now', the stage production of 'Lucy in the leap year' and the stage, film and television productions of 'Five times dizzy'.Major correspondents in MS 9000 include Oxford University Press, Barbara Mobbs (Wheatley's agent from 1988), Children's Book Council of Australia, International Board on Books for Young People, Penguin Books, Collins, Angus Robertson, Redress Press, SBS, Rosalind Price (Pixel Publishing), Omnibus Books, Belle Alderman, Margaret Aitken, Katherine Scholes, Donna Rawlins, Edel Wignell, Toss Gascoigne, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, Julie Lewis, Barbara Jefferis, and Theatre South.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original consignment was purchased by the Library in 1996. Further papers were donated in 2004 and purchased in 2005, 2008 and 2017.

Subjects:

Literature

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