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Date(s)
- [197-?]-1995 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
43 boxes, 1 tube.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Janette Turner Hospital was born in Melbourne 12 November 1942. She was educated in Brisbane graduating BA from the University of Queensland in 1966,and MA from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 1973. She has fulfilled many teaching appointments in Canada, the USA and Australia. Her career as a writer has led to many awards, most notably The Seal Award for "The Ivory Swing" Canada 1982. She has written novels, short stories, contributed to magazines in Canada, the USA, UK and Australia and is represented in many Australian and overseas collections. Her crime thriller "A Very Proper Death", was written under the pseudonym Alex Juniper.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, [197-?]-2007
Collection alternatively titled as: Janette Turner Hospital Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers relating to 'The ivory swing, 'Charades', 'The last magician', 'Isobars', 'Borderline', 'The tiger in the tiger pit', 'Dislocations', 'Oyster', 'A very proper death', 'Collected stories 1970-1995' and ‘Orpheus lost’. Drafts, proofs, correspondence, reviews, articles, notes. Books inscribed to Janette Turner Hospital.
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Accruals
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Conditions governing access
Mostly Unrestricted access. Closed access : Box 6 (family correspondence in Folders 3, 5, 6), Box 25 (correspondence with Chris Wallace-Crabbe), Box 26 (correspondence with John Hanrahan).
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
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Publication note
'Guide to the Papers of Janette Turner Hospital, The University of Queensland Library, Fryer Library'. (2001). Guide to Australian literary manuscripts. University of Western Australia Library & Australian Literary Manuscript Collections Project.
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- Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942- (Subject)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, AM, 23-Aug-2023.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.