Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1957- (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
160 boxes, 1 parcel
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Award-winning author and journalist Frank Moorhouse was born on 21 December 1938 at Nowra, New South Wales. Moorhouse married Wendy Halloway in 1959 but they separated four years later, having no children. In a literary career spanning over 60 years, he published ten novels and regularly contributed short stories and essays to a number of periodicals and anthologies. His early career as a journalist began at the Daily Telegraph (Sydney) and he worked for several newspapers, eventually becoming editor of the Australian Worker. He is best known for his Miles Franklin award-winning series Palais des Nations, set against the backdrop of the League of Nations, for which he spent four years in Europe researching thanks to an Australia Council Creative Fellowship. He was an advocate for the moral rights of authors and played a central role in copyright reform in Australia. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to Australian literature in 1985. Frank died in a Sydney hospital on 26 June 2022.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1957-
Collection alternatively titled as: Frank Moorhouse Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Literary drafts, personal papers, correspondence, research notes, newspaper cuttings, financial records, subject folders, cassette tapes.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except for Box 22 Folder 1; Box 135 Folder 20; Box 136 Folder 28; Box 138 Folder 53; Box 141 Folder 86 and Parcel 165 which are Restricted access. Application for access to restricted material may be submitted to the Fryer Librarian for consideration.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
'Guide to the Papers of Frank Moorhouse, The University of Queensland Library, Fryer Library'. (2001). Guide to Australian literary manuscripts. University of Western Australia Library & Australian Literary Manuscript Collections Project.
Publication note
Material in this collection has been cited:
Lamb, M (2023). Frank Moorhouse : strange paths. Knopf, a part of Penguin Random House Australia, Southbank, VIC
Notes area
Note
Up to Box 133 has been rehoused into Boxes 1-83. From Box 134 rehousing and reappraisal has not occurred (hence the gap in box numbers from 84 to 133).
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Moorhouse, Frank (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 17-Feb-2023. Revised, Linda Justo, 1-Jul-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.