Guide to the Papers of Elizabeth Riddell
MS 9235
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Elizabeth Riddell
- Title
- Papers of Elizabeth Riddell
- Date Range
- 1982-1990
- Collection Number
- MS 9235
- Extent
- 0.15 metres (1 box)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection includes drafts of poems and reviews by Riddell and correspondence with Barrett Reid and Stephen Murray-Smith.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1761691).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Elizabeth Riddell, National Library of Australia, MS 9235, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The papers were donated in 1995, under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, to the National Library.
Arrangement
Riddell kept the papers in files and the arrangement has been preserved by the Library.
Bibliography
The Oxford companion to Australian Literature (pp.648) 'Elizabeth Riddell' by James Hall, in The Australian, 7 July 1998 (p. 16).
Biographical Note
Poet, journalist and reviewer. Riddell was born in 1910 in Napier, New Zealand. She came to Australia in 1925 to work for Erza Norton.
During the War Riddell worked as a War Correspondent in London for the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror. She came back to Sydney at the end of the War to work for the Daily Mirror and The Australian.
Between 1948 and 1994 she published six books of poetry, including the Selected poems (1972) and her works also appeared in journals (including Overland and The Bulletin). She was won the Grace Leven Prize (1971), the Christopher Brennan Award (1971), the NSW Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (1992), NSW Book of the year (1992) and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society (1993).
Riddell died in Sydney in 1998.