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- 1973 (Creation)
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20 l. ; 30 cm.
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John ('Jack') Lindsay was born on 20 October 1900 in East Melbourne. Son of Victorian-born Norman Lindsay and his first wife Kathleen Agatha, née Parkinson. After his parents separated in 1909 his mother took him and his brothers, Raymond and Philip, to Brisbane. During this time he spent much time in the Elkington household. He earned scholarships to Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland (BA Hon, 1921). He was an autobiographer/memoirist, biographer, book publisher, communist, historian, literary critic and novelist. He died on 8 March 1990 in Cambridge, England.
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Script prepared and read in Mermaid Theatre, London, 28 Oct 1973.
Handwritten note by Warwick Gould: Poems declaimed by Patricia Routledge.
Audience included Miss Elizabeth Salter, former secretary to the late Edith Sitwell.
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- English
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- Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964 (Subject)
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Migrated
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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.