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Date(s)
- 1956-2008 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
3 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Alan Lawson is Emeritus Professor at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland where he previously held positions including Dean of Postgraduate Students and Director of the Graduate School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and International). As a literary scholar, he has written on Patrick White, Barbara Baynton and Henry Lawson and was a major proponent of Australian Literature as a field of study in the 1970s, where he worked with Laurie Hergenhan to introduce courses on different genres of Australian fiction.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1956-1982
Collection alternatively titled as: Alan Lawson Collection
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Research papers relating to Patrick White including correspondence, articles, newspaper cuttings and notes dating from 1956 to 2008. Correspondence with writers including Thea Astley, Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Green, David Marr, Frank Moorhouse, Janet Tuner Hospital and one folder relating to Helen Darville dating from 1979 to 1997.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged into two series:
Series A: Papers relating to Patrick White, 1956 to 2008.
Series B: Correspondence with writers, 1979 to 1997.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Spanish
- Swedish
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Access points
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Name access points
- White, Patrick, 1912-1990 (Subject)
- Marr, David, 1947 (Subject)
- Astley, Thea (Subject)
- Dawe, Bruce, 1930- (Subject)
- Green, Dorothy, 1915-1991 (Subject)
- Moorhouse, Frank (Subject)
- Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942- (Subject)
- Darville, Helen, 1971- (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, KM, 3-Dec-2024. Revised, Linda Justo, 10-Nov-2022. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.