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Tania Peitzker Papers

  • UQFL310
  • Collection
  • 1970-2022

Tania Peitzker studied at the University of Queensland, undertaking a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in the 1990s. This collection is comprised of material relating to her fourth year honours project. It includes annotated copies of printouts of journal articles, notes, correspondence, drafts of her report 'Toward the construction of a lesbian history in Australia : dyke intellectuals of the liberation movements and their influence on sexual politics today' and her honours thesis 'Questions of politics in the "moment" of the Australian journal of cultural studies : a genealogy of interdisciplinary knowledge and practice in Australia" (1994). Where possible original folders have been retained; and includes material relating to Tania Peitzker's nomination for Australian Historical Association Prize for Australian History; material relating to Queer Collaborations conference, Brisbane, 2-9 July 1994; and a hard bound copy of her PhD dissertation 'Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981) : a feminist analysis of gender in her romantic realistic texts' (2000).Reports, articles, notes, correspondence, publications, dissertation on Dymphna Cusack, draft scripts and poetry. There are creative works, published and unpublished, of Tania Peitzker including her poems, plays, novels, satirical essays, journal articles and short stories. Additionally there is some correspondence, public relations and journalism work.

Peitzker, Tania, 1970-

Hecate Press Records

  • UQFL235
  • Collection
  • 1974-

Hecate Press records includes correspondence, submissions for publication, press releases, newspaper cuttings, subscription files, photographs, paste ups, proofs, and advertising, mostly, for the journal 'Hecate : an interdisciplinary journal of women’s liberation'.

Correspondence consists mostly of unsolicited submissions and attached self-addressed stamped envelopes. Rejected submissions are not kept. The letters from submitters may have notes written on them by Hecate Press editors (primarily Carole Ferrier and Bronwen Levy) or a simple ‘Rej’ [Rejected] written on the letter. The submissions were mostly poetry, although short stories and articles were also sent to Hecate Press.

'Hecate' is an international feminist academic journal. The focus is material relating to women and also creative work and graphics. It runs reciprocal advertisements with other feminist and socialist publications as well as exchange subscriptions. The Literature Board of the Australia Council as well as donations have been sources of financial assistance.

Some material is for other Hecate Press publications including ‘Australian Women’s Book Review’.

Hecate Press

Ernestine Hill Papers

  • UQFL18
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1930-1974]

This collection has typescript and handwritten drafts, notes and research material relating to published works and also to a wide range of literary projects mostly undertaken during the later part of Hill's writing career, from 1945 onwards. These unpublished works cover a variety of genres: novels, plays, descriptive writing and scripts for radio, television and film. Included are drafts and research material related to 'Johnnie Wisecap', 'The Coast of the Holy Ghost', 'Zodiac Road / Blanked over the moon', 'Women of Australia', 'Grand Kangaroo', 'Mother of Pearl'. There is material on the life of Daisy Bates, and plans for a film based on her life; personal correspondence, and two complete unpublished novels.

There are 3,156 photographs, some prints, some negatives, reflecting very large collection of photographs taken by Hill during her many long tours of outback Australia, from the early 1930s and cover all aspects of Northern, Western and outback Australia: flora and fauna, scenery, missions, homestead life, coastal scenes and shipping, traditional industries such as fishing, droving, pearling and sugar farming, mining, camel transport, dwellings, cemeteries, and public buildings. There is pictorial material relating to the life and customs of Aboriginal Australians in all areas of Australia.

Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972

Edith Mary England Papers

  • UQFL162
  • Collection
  • 1914-1979.

Manuscripts of short stories and radio plays, poems, scrapbook, newspaper clippings, periodicals, correspondence.

England, E. M. (Edith Mary), 1899-1979

Dorothy Blewett Papers

  • UQFL660
  • Collection
  • 1930-1965

This collection is comprised mostly of papers relating to Dorothy Blewett including: drafts of playscripts, novels, short stories, and articles for published and published works; a small amount of incoming and outgoing correspondence; photographs; personal documents; documents relating to her professional activities; and theatre programs and travel ephemera relating to her time spent in the 1950s in England and Europe. There are also some papers relating to the activities of her sisters, Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965