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- 1972-1974 (Creation)
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1 box, 1 parcel.
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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.
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Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence relating to the novel Blood red, Sister Rose (1974).
Box 1
Folder 1
Two letters concerning Blood red, Sister Rose. One is from typist Iris (?) Woollard in Kent, England, one leaf, undated; the other is from Simon King, of Collins Publishers, London, eight leaves, dated 20 September 1973, with editorial comments about Blood red, Sister Rose and Thomas Kenneally's pen annotations responding to the comments.
Folders 2-4
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, 129 leaves, some handwritten, some typescript, and cut-up fragments of the draft. Some of the draft is written on the back of typescript (duplicated) pages from Thomas Keneally's play 'An awful rose' and some pages have been cut and pasted together. Also includes an envelope, with 'BRSR fragments' written on the front in texta, used to post the fragments from Thomas Keneally's address in England to his address in Australia.
Folders 5-6
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, 466 leaves, some typescript, some handwritten, inconsistent pagination in the top right corner. Some of the pages have been cut and pasted together. Also includes an envelope used to post the draft pages from Thomas Keneally's address in England to his address in Australia, and a 1973 playbill from the Bankside Globe Playhouse in London used as scrap paper for pen notes relating to Blood red, Sister Rose.
Folders 7-8
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, 379 leaves, mostly handwritten, some typescript, inconsistent numeric and alphabetic pagination in the top right corner. Some of the pages have been cut and pasted together. Also includes research notes and editorial comments on torn pieces of paper. Continues into Parcel 2 Folders 1-2.
Parcel 1
Folders 1-2
Draft, Blood red, Sister Rose, continued from Box 2 Folders 7-8.
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Original order has been retained within the arrangement as much as possible. Many of the paginated pages of the drafts are not in sequential order.
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Unrestricted access.
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In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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- English
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Box 1 Folders 1-8, Parcel 1 Folders 1-2.
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Created, Kymberley Doyle, 19-Aug-2024.