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Papers of Grace Nolan, 1929-2021

(3 ms boxes + 22 audiovisual carriers + [5] digital carriers + 10 colour photographs)
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This collection comprises folk stories told by Grace Nolan's mother, Carmela Speranza, from her birth town in Italy, collected through audio and audiovisual recordings. The collection includes manuscripts by Grace Nolan titled "More Stories My Mother Told Me" and "The Sun My Father The Moon My Mother", which further the work she began in her thesis. These writings explore the oral tradition of storytelling and provide further background and collected stories. The stories have been recorded in the original dialect and translated into English by Grace Nolan, providing insight into the life of a migrant woman in Melbourne in the 1950s. The collection also includes copies of related publications, Folklore Della Calabria Vol 1 and Vol 2 by A. Basile (Ed) and
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