Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1972-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes, 2 parcels.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Thomas Michael Keneally was born in Sydney on 7 October 1935 and educated at St Patrick's College in Strathfield. He initially trained to become a Catholic priest at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly, before moving into a teaching career. While teaching he wrote his first novel, The place at Whitton, published in 1964. In 1965, Thomas married Judy Martin, a nurse, and they had two daughters named Margaret and Jane. Whitton was followed by other plays and novels, including Bring larks and heroes (1967) and Three cheers for the paraclete (1968), both of which won the Miles Franklin Award for Australian literature. His most famous novel, Schindler's ark (1982), also known as Schindler's list, became the first Australian novel to win the Booker Prize. In 1983 he received the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 197-?-1974
Collection alternatively titled as: Thomas Keneally Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence relating to novels Blood red, Sister Rose (1974) and Gossip from the forest (1975). There are four drafts, handwritten and typescript, of Gossip from the forest and at least one draft of Blood red, Sister Rose, mostly handwritten. Also includes one leaf, handwritten, of a draft of Passenger (1979).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
This collection is arranged into two series by title of work: Series A: Blood red, Sister Rose, and Series B: Gossip from the forest. Original order has been retained within the arrangement of the series as much as possible. Many of the paginated pages of the drafts are not in sequential order.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Sharrad P (2023) ‘The art in fiction: Thomas Keneally’, Journal of Commonwealth literature, 58(2):280–292, doi:10.1177/0021989420961820.
Notes area
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Keneally, Thomas (Subject)
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 24-Sep-2024. Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 26-Aug-2024. Revised, Linda Justo, 15-Aug-2024. Revised, FF, 14-May-2020. Revised, AM, 04-Mar-2020. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.