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- 1976 (Creation)
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1 parcel. 3 sound cassettes (185 min.)
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Sarah ('Sadie') Norden was born on 3 December 1899 in Mile End, London, England. Her father was Charles Norden, a journeyman metal engraver, and her mother was Nancy Norden, née Rosenthal. Sadie married Woolf Cohen, a cabinetmaker, on 15 August 1926 at the East London Synagogue. The newlyweds moved to Australia and lived in Melbourne, then Sydney, for several years. In 1930, the Cohens encountered financial difficulties and their marriage broke down. Woolf moved to Auckland, New Zealand, to take up an offer of employment and Sadie returned to her parents in England. While on the journey home to England, Sadie met Albert Francis Xavier Herbert. She fell out of contact with Woolf and they later divorced. Sadie and Xavier moved to Australia together in 1932 and they settled at Redlynch, near Cairns, Queensland, in 1951. They married at the Cairns Court House on 26 June 1953. Sadie Herbert died on 29 September 1979.
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Nancy Bonnin (née Crowe) worked at University of Queensland Library first in the 1940s and then from 1960-1982. While Fryer Librarian from 1965 to 1976, she oversaw the acquisition of the Father Leo Hayes Collection. She recorded oral histories with former University staff and students between 1979-1983 in preparation for the 1985 publication A place of light and learning: the University of Queensland’s first seventy-five years by Malcolm Thomis. In the same year her book, Katie Hume on the Darling Downs: a colonial marriage was published, drawing on Fryer Library’s 19th century collection of photographs and personal correspondence of Katie Hume and her husband Walter Cunningham Hume (1840–1921) surveyor and Chief Commissioner of Lands for Queensland.
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Marianne Ehrhardt was in charge of bibliographic services in the University of Queensland Library.
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Relocated from A/V mono run 2017-06-19 ; previous Call number PR8237.E72 Z674 1976
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Sadie Herbert, wife of Xavier Herbert, is interviewed by Fryer Librarian Nancy Bonnin while Xavier is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Queensland English Department. Audiovisual Librarian Marjorie Roe and Librarian Marianne Ehrhardt contribute. Sadie talks about various aspects of Xavier's work, life and family; about her own life; and their shared experiences in Australia and abroad.
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Unrestricted access.
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Copyright applies.
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- English
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- Herbert, Sadie, 1899-1979 (Subject)
- Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984 (Subject)
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Revised, Linda Justo, 23-Sep-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.