Guide to the Papers of Sophie Cunningham
MS 10265
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2016
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Cunningham, Sophie
- Title
- Papers of Sophie Cunningham
- Date Range
- c. 1969 to 2008
- Collection Number
- MS 10265
- Extent
- 1.2 metres (8 ms boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Sophie Cunningham's career in publishing with McPhee Gribble/Penguin and Allen & Unwin, including edited proofs, book covers, production files about writes such as Mandy Brett, David Menandue, Paul Livingston and Louise Southerden, and professional correspondence. The collection also comprises correspondence, press clippings and articles by Cunningham. Correspondents include Hilary McPhee, Helen Garner, Tony Ayres, Peter Nicholls, Michelle de Krester, Kaz Cooke and Morris Gleitzman.
Conditions Governing Access
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7135261).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Sophie Cunningham, National Library of Australia, MS 10265, [series/file/item number(s)]'.
Finding Aid Source(s)
Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Item Descriptions
Class 1. Consignment Received March 2014
Series. Bird
Series. Buddhism
Series. Correspondence
Personal correspondence A-J (File 21) - Box 5
Steven Armstrong - Arts administrator; Tony Ayres, film maker; Tom Bishop, academic; Gillian Bouras, author; James Button, ex, friend, journalist, writer; Michael Callahan, artist, friend; Jim Cathcart, arts admin, friend; Kate Cole-Admas, friend, journalist, author; Griff Clemens, friend; Kaz Cooke, friend, author; Saul Cunningham, brother; John Cunningham, legal father; Christopher Cyrill, author; Michelle de Krester, friend, author; Helen Garner, friend, author; Jane Gleeson-White, colleague, friend, author; Morris Gleitzman, friend, writer; Katherine Hattam, friend, artist; Kim Langley, friend, journalist; Daniel Joyce, lawyer, academic.
Personal correspondence M-Y (File 22) - Box 6
Bobby Mahlab, friend, media owner; Sarah Mathers, close friend; Matthew Martin, cartoonist; McGregor family (excluding Alex McGregor); Hilary McPhee, boss, mentor, friend; Sylvia Martin, family friend, writer; Peter Nicholls, biographical father; Adrienne Nicotra, sister-in-law, scientist; Jean-Jacque Portail, boyfriend from late 1980s, former husband of Helen Garner; Tim Richards, author; Miranda Salt, friend, colleague; Amrutha Slee, friend, journo, publisher; Susan Stewart, University friend; Julia Taylor, colleague at McPhee Gribble; Ian Trounce, ex housemate; Deb Verhoeven, uni friend, film academic, theorist; Sari Wawn and Bernie McMahon, mother and her third husband; Bob Weis, film maker, friend; Diana Wells, graphic designer, photographer, friend; Chong Weng Ho, graphic designer, artist, illustrator, friend; William Yang, photographer.
Series. Geography
Series. Miscellaneous
Series. Publishing
Book covers of Cunningham's books, 1990s-2000s (File 17) - Box 4
Includes original wood cut for Richard Flanagan's death of a river guide.
Production file for David Menandue's book Positive (File 19) - Box 5
This project passed from John Iremonger to Sophie Cunningham after John's death. Includes book proposal, costings, book covers. Unusually complete for a file held outside a publishing house.