- Bib ID:
- 1504421
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Beckett, Wendy
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MS 9084 copy
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- 1928-1997
- 1.12 mtrs. (8 boxes)
- Summary:
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Papers maintained by Beckett while researching her biography Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Angus & Robertson, 1992), including correspondence, interviews, articles, press clippings, correspondence, drafts, financial records and other There are also papers relating to a proposed documentary film on Glanville-Hicks' life. Correspondents include Yehudi Menuhin, Gore Vidal, Leonard Bernstein, and Peter Sculthorpe. Other papers include drafts and final copies of Beckett's works, in particular her plays, radio plays, an outline for an intended novel and a libretto for 'Beckett'. There are also transcripts of interviews by Beckett with Lawrence Durrell and Paul Bowles, and other related papers. Publications by Beckett, received with the papers, have been incorporated into the Library's book collection.
- Biography/History:
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Biographer of Peggy Glanville-Hicks.
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference no.: NLA MS 9084.
- Playright, print and radio journalist, librettist and biographer of Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Wendy Beckett also worked as a school teacher.
- MS 9084 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-343777395
- Related Material:
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- Related material: Papers of Peggy Glanville-Hicks are held at Mitchell Library, Sydney.
- Related material: Papers of Peggy Glanville-Hicks are held at National Library of Australia MS 9083.
- Cassettes from the Wendy Beckett collection relating to Peggy Glanville-Hicks; Virgil Thompson and John Butler; Walter Trampler and Jack Murphy; and John Cage located at National Library of Australia Oral History Section at OH TRC 4919/1-5
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Descriptive list available (6 p.)
- Subject:
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- Beckett, Wendy -- Archives
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 -- Interviews
- Vidal, Gore, 1925- -- Correspondence
- Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014 -- Correspondence
- Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999 -- Correspondence
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Correspondence
- Durrell, Lawrence -- Interviews
- Glanville-Hicks, Peggy, 1912-1990
- Composers -- Australia -- Biography
- Women composers -- Australia -- Biography
- Biographers -- Australia -- Archives
- Time Coverage:
- 1928-1997
- Occupation:
- Biographers
- Copyright:
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