Veronica Brady interviewed by Stuart Reid for the Battye Library collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 360905
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Brady, Veronica, 1926-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1989
- 14 tape reels (ca. 411 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Battye Library collection.
- Summary:
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Sister Veronica Brady, Senior Lecturer, English Dept., University of Western Australia, speaks about her family background; childhood in Victoria during the Depression; school at a Sisters of Mercy Convent and later at a Loreto Convent; views on the Catholic Church during her childhood; singing at Melbourne University; Newman Society; joining the Loreto Order; teaching in Melbourne, Ballarat and Sydney; studying at Universities of Chicago and Toronto; her PhD thesis on Patrick White; Senior Tutor in English Dept. at the University of Western Australia; Academic Staff Association; her approach to teaching; her writing; the Catholic Church; her faith; the Bible; period on the ABC Board; Aboriginals; Social Security Tribunal; study leave and guests for lecturing.
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- The J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History is part of the State Library of Western Australia.
- Part of a collection of oral history interviews produced by a joint project between the National Library of Australia and the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History.
- Recorded at the Loreto Convent in Nedlands, Western Australia from 12 May to 28 June 1989.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Transcript available (typescript, 138 leaves)
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