Thea Astley - Inventing Her Own Weather
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37Thea Astley, Books and Writing with Robert Dessaix, ABC radio, 8 March 1990, 48609, ABC Radio Archives.
38Hal Porter (ed.), It Could be You, Rigby, Adelaide, 1972.
39Thea Astley, Beachmasters, Viking/Penguin, New York, 1986, p. 48.
40Thea Astley, The Acolyte, UQP, St Lucia, 1980, p. 88.
41Thea Astley, ‘Après Baudelaire’, unpublished sonnet, Thea Astley papers.
42Sorites (defn.): a form of pure logical argument with several premises, one conclusion, resolvable into a number of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is the premise of the next.
43John Docker to author, Sydney, 31 May 1995.
44Eileen Astley, letter to Thea Astley, 15 March 1969, Thea Astley papers.
45Michael McGirr to author, Melbourne, 14 March 2008.
46Eileen Astley, letter to Thea Astley, 15 March 1969, Thea Astley papers.
12 North of nostalgia
1Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple and Other Related Stories, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1979, p. 1.
2Thea Astley, The Coming Out Show with Jill Lennon, ABC radio, 3 July 1976, ABC Radio Archives.
3Thea Astley, Books and Writing with Robert Dessaix, ABC radio, 8 March 1990, 48609, ABC Radio Archives.
4ibid.
5ibid.
6Such as Mark Macleod, Jeff McMullen, Wendy Blaxland, Jenny Brockie.
7Jenny Brockie in Jane Wheatley, ‘Invisible Ink’, HQ, Mar/Apr, 1994, p. 66.
8Mark Macleod in Jane Wheatley, ‘Invisible Ink’, HQ, Mar/Apr, 1994, p. 66.
9Thea Astley in Clifford Tolchard, ‘Thea Astley: Novelist and Teacher’, Walkabout, June 1969, p. 14.
10Leigh Dale, The Enchantment of English: Professing English Literatures at Australian Universities, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2012, p. 216.
11Professor Ruth Mawson to author, phone interview, 25 September 2014.
12Mark Macleod to author, Blue Mountains, 7 December 2007.
13ibid.
14Jeff McMullen to author, Sydney, 2 February 2008.
15ibid.
16Wendy Blaxland to author, Sydney, 20 February 2008.
17ibid.
18John Bernard to author, Sydney, 5 February 2008.
19ibid.
20ibid.
21John Ryan to author, Sydney, 13 February 2008.
22Thea Astley, The Australian, 31 August 1970.
23Brian Matthews, ‘Before Feminism … After Feminism’, Romantics and Mavericks: The Australian Short Story, Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, 1987, p. 18.
24Cherry H. Grimm, ‘Always the Twelfth Man’, The Australian, 14 October 1972, p. 35.
25Thea Astley in Candida Baker, ‘Cooler, Calmer and More Collected’, The Age, 31 March 1990, p. 6.
26Thea Astley in Candida Baker (ed.), Yacker: Australian Writers Talk about Their Work, Picador, Woollahra, New South Wales, 1986, pp. 42–43.
27Henrietta Drake-Brockman quoted in J. A. Hay, ‘Betrayed Romantics and Compromised Stoics: K. S. Prichard’s Women’, Who is She? Images of Women in Australian Fiction, UQP, St Lucia, 1983, p. 115.
28ibid.
29Thea Astley in Robert Drewe, ‘Profile of a Prize Novelist’, The Age, 28 May 1966, p. 22.
30Mark Macleod to author, Blue Mountains, 7 December 2007.
31Thea Astley, ‘The Author as a Critic of Society’, typescript, 1970, Thea Astley papers, UQFL97, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
32Patrick White, letter to Geoffrey Dutton, 1 February 1971, in David Marr (ed.), Patrick White: Letters, Random House, Sydney, 1994, p. 376.
33Hal Porter, letter to Thea Astley, December 1971, Thea Astley papers.
34Beatrice Davis, reader’s report, 6 October 1971, Angus & Robertson Archives, MLMSS3269, State Library of New South Wales.
35Readers’ reports, The Acolyte, A&R Archives.
36Thea Astley, letter to Beatrice Davis, 23 November 1971, A&R Archives.
37Thea Astley, ‘Thurlow’s Answer’ manuscript, Thea Astley papers.
38Thea Astley, The Acolyte, UQP, St Lucia, 1980, p. 76.
39Thea Astley in Graeme Kinross-Smith, ‘Thea Astley’, Kunapipi, 4(1), 1982, p. 35.
40Thea Astley in Peter Fuller, ‘To the Islands with Thea Astley’, The Canberra Times, 8 March 1985, p. 17.
41Richard Walsh to author, Sydney, 29 May 1995.
42Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life, Viking/Penguin, Melbourne, 2001, p. 157. In recording the history of Davis with A&R, Kent uses ‘retirement’ (p. 157), then later, quoting Richard Walsh, who offered a kind of consultancy that was refused, his phrase ‘we had to let her go’ (p. 273).
43Beatrice Davis, letter to Thea Astley, 6 June 1972, A&R Archives.
44Thea Astley, letter to Richard Walsh and Michael Johnston, Easter Monday 1973, A&R Archives.
45Richard Walsh to author, Sydney, 29 May 1995.
46Thea Astley, letter to Richard Walsh, 8 October 1975, A&R Archives.
47Bob Sessions, letter to Richard Walsh, 17 February 1976, A&R Archives.
48Richard Walsh, letter to Beatrice Davis, 8 December 1980, Beatrice Davis papers, State Library of New South Wales.
49Richard Walsh, letter to Bob Sessions, 28 April 1980, A&R Archives.
13 Living is serial
1Thea Astley, ‘A Man Who is Tired of Swiper’s Creek is Tired of Life’, Hunting the Wild Pineapple and Other Related Stories, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1979, p. 175.
2John Bernard to author, Sydney, 5 February 2008.
3Yvonne Wyndham to author, Sydney, 11 January 2008.
4ibid.
5Thea Astley, A Descant for Gossips, UQP, St Lucia, 1983, p. 18.
6Alan and Margaret Smith to author, Somersby, 25 February 2008.
7Sister Claver, letter to Thea Astley, 4 July 1973, Thea Astley papers, UQFL97, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
8Hal Porter, letter to Thea Astley, 20 April 1971, Thea Astley papers.
9Lenore Nicklin, ‘Thea Astley: Writing in the Rainforest’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 1979.
10 Thea Astley, ‘Being a Queenslander: A Form of Literary and Geographical Conceit’, 6th Herbert Blaiklock Memorial Lecture, University of Sydney, 23 June 1976, The Wentworth Press, 1978, p. 13.
11Eileen Astley, letter to Thea Astley, 5 February 197[?], Thea Astley papers.
12Moira and Sheila Knudson to author, Cairns, 19 February 2008.
13Rodney Hall to author, Melbourne, July 2011.
14Michael Costigan to author, Sydney, 2011.
15Thea Astley, ‘Review’, The Sunday Telegraph, 2 September 1973, p. 25.
16Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Penguin, Melbourne, 1989, p. 6.
17Thea Astley, ‘The Author as a Critic of Society’, typescript, 1970, Thea Astley papers.
18Thea Astley, Interim Spoken Word, ABC radio, 1 January 1974, ABC Radio Archives.
19Jeff McMullen to author, Sydney, 2 February 2008.
20Thea Astley in Graeme Kinross-Smith, ‘Thea Astley’, Kunapipi, 4(1), 1982, p. 22.
21Thea Astley, ‘Writing in North Queensland’, LINQ, 9(1), 1981, p. 5.
22Kerryn Goldsworthy, ‘Thea Astley’s Writing: Magnetic North’, Meanjin, 42(4), 1983, p. 482.
23R. F. Brissenden, ‘Going Back to Taws’, The Australian, 15 February 1975, p. 19.
24Richard Walsh to author, Sydney, 29 May 1995.
25Thea Astley in Peter Craven, ‘Written in Her Genes’, Sunday Herald, 8 April 1990, p. 35.
26Sue Ebury, letter to Beatrice Davis, 9 June 1978, Beatrice Davis papers, State Library of New South Wales.
27Brethwyn Weyland, ‘In Their Own Write’, New Idea, 3 November 1973, p.
92.
28Mark Macleod to author, Blue Mountains, 7 December 2007.
29Eileen Astley, letter to Phil Astley, 22 February 1975, Jesuit Archives, Melbourne.
30Thea Astley, card to Jack Gregson, 1975, Thea Astley papers.
31Thea Astley, Survey of Australian Universities with John Pringle, ABC radio, 17 July 1977, ABC Radio Archives.
32Thea Astley, ‘The Higher Illiteracy’, The Australian, n.d. 1975[?].
33A. D. Hope, letter to Thea Astley, 10 January 1975, Thea Astley papers.
34Eileen Astley, letter to Thea Astley, 19 March 1976, Thea Astley papers.
35ibid.
36Thea Astley in Amanda Smith, ‘Thea Astley’, Publishers Weekly, 30 March 1990, p. 42.
37Beatrice Davis, memo draft of a cover blurb for Hunting the Wild Pineapple, n.d., Beatrice Davis papers.
38Beatrice Davis, memo to Bob Sessions, n.d., Beatrice Davis papers.
39ibid.
40Thea Astley, letter to Professor A. Gibbs, 30 November 1976, Thea Astley papers.
41Phil Astley, letter to Eileen Astley, 24 February 1978, Thea Astley papers.
42Eileen Astley, letter to Thea Astley, 21 November 1977, Thea Astley papers.
43Phil Astley, letter to Eileen Astley, 24 February 1978, Thea Astley papers.
14 Jane Austen of the rainforest
1Thea Astley, ‘Writing in North Queensland’, LINQ, 9(1), 1981, p. 5.
2Thea Astley, ‘Revelation’, 1944, Thea Astley papers, UQFL97, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
3Thea Astley in Lenore Nicklin, ‘Thea Astley: Writing in the Rainforest’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 1979.
4Thea Astley, letter to Jack Gregson, n.d., Thea Astley papers.
5ibid.
6Jack Gregson, letter to Thea Astley, n.d., Thea Astley papers.
7Phil Astley, letter to Thea Astley, 2 October 1980, Jesuit Archives, Melbourne.
8Thea Astley, speech, n.d., Thea Astley papers.
9Leonie Kramer, letter to Thea Astley, 16 July 1980, Thea Astley papers.
10Richard Walsh, letter to Thea Astley, 24 December 1980, Thea Astley papers.
11Thea Astley, letter to Beatrice Davis, 26 July c. 1982, Beatrice Davis papers, State Library of New South Wales.
12Astley, LINQ, pp. 2–10.
13Patsy Adam-Smith, card to Thea Astley, 8 August 1980, Thea Astley papers.
14Tom Keneally, ‘A Novelist Looks at Prose Writing’, Opinion, August 1967, p. 40.
15Neil Jillett, ‘Atmosphere of Moods and Tension’, Age Saturday Extra, 24 November 1981, p. 27; Hilma Wolitzer, ‘Tales Told by a Monopod’, New York Times Book Review, 23 December 1990.
16Thea Astley, reading in Jimmy Watson’s Wine Bar, Melbourne, February 1993. Astley introduced Mrs Waterman as ‘one of her personal favourites’.
17Thea Astley, The Search for Meaning with Caroline Jones, ABC radio, 17 April 1994 (repeated 8 January 1995), 64732, ABC Radio Archives.
18Thea Astley, Coda, William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1994, p. 114.
19Fay Zwicky, Lingua Franca, ABC radio, 28 August 2004, ABC Radio Archives.
20Thea Astley, letter to Jackie Yowell, 14 September 1980, Penguin publishing files, Penguin Pty Ltd, Victoria.
21Thea Astley, letter to Jackie Yowell, 15 December 1980, Penguin publishing files.
22John Bernard to author, Sydney, 5 February 2008.
23Thea Astley, An Item from the Late News, UQP, St Lucia, 1982, p. 19.
24ibid., p. 5.
25Cherry Grimm, review of The Acolyte, The Australian, 14 October 1972, p. 35.
26Thea Astley, letter to D’Arcy Randall, 25 January 1982, in D’Arcy Randall, ‘Contrary Motion: The Publication of Thea Astley’s An Item from the Late News’, typescript kindly provided by D’Arcy Randall.
27ibid.
28Thea Astley, letter to Brian Johns, 9 August 1982, Penguin publishing files.
29Thea Astley, letter to Brian Johns, 26 August 1982, Penguin publishing files.
30Beatrice Davis, memo to Bob Sessions, c. 1980, Beatrice Davis papers.
31Jacqueline Kent, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life, Viking/Penguin, Melbourne, 2001, p. 157.
32Bob Sessions, letter to Jackie Yowell, 28 October 1982, Penguin publishing files.
33Thea Astley, letter to Jackie Yowell, 25 November 1982, Penguin publishing files.
34Beatrice Davis, letter to Thea Astley, 11 November 1982, Thea Astley papers.
35Geoff and Sarah Cains to author, Mittagong, 7 February 2008.
36Ed Gregson and Michelle Barbour to author, New Brighton, 30 November 2006.
37June Barbour to author, Sydney, December 2011.
38Thea Astley, letter to Julie Watts, 14 September 1983, Penguin publishing files.
39Rodney Hall to author, Melbourne, July 2011.
40Thea Astley, letter to Beatrice Davis, 14 September 1979, Beatrice Davis papers. Suggests Brian Matthews could review Hunting the Wild Pineapple.
41Thea Astley in Norma Jean Richey, ‘An Interview with Thea Astley’, South Central Review, 3(2), 1986, p. 90.
42Thea Astley, letter to Brian Johns, 4 October 1983, Penguin publishing files.
43For a full discussion of this period of American–Australian publishing relations, see Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns (eds), ‘Rejected by America? Some Tensions in Australian–American Literary Relations’, Reading Across the Pacific: Australia–United States Intellectual Histories, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 309–322.
44Thea Astley, letter to Ed Gregson, 9 April 1983, Thea Astley papers.
45Thea Astley, speech, Canberra Wordfest, c. 1988–89, Thea Astley papers.
46Thea Astley, letter to Jackie Yowell, 13 May 1984, Penguin publishing files.
47Thea Astley, letter to Jackie Yowell, 2 April 1984, Penguin publishing files.
48Thea Astley, letter to Carla Taines, 31 July 1984, Penguin publishing files.
49Astley in Richey, South Central Review, p. 93.
50Phil Astley, Christmas card to Thea Astley, c. 1983, Thea Astley papers.
51Peter Dent, letter to Thea Astley, 16 May 1985, Thea Astley papers.
52May-Liz Shaw, ‘Stone’s Best at Author’s Fest’, The Strand, Toronto, 31 October 1984.
53Thea Astley, letter to Jackie Yowell, 12 December 1984, Penguin publishing files.
15 Pictures from a family album
1Thea Astley, It’s Raining in Mango: Pictures from the Family Album, Penguin, Melbourne, 1987, p. 15.
2Marin Martinelli to author, phone interview, 27 January 2011.
3Thea Astley, letter to Peg McColl, 11 March 1986, Penguin publishing files, Penguin Pty Ltd, Victoria.
4 Don Anderson, ‘Writers Contrast in Age and Style’, review of Beachmasters, The National Times, 5–11 April 1985, p. 31.
5Thea Astley, letter to Don Anderson, 7 April 1985, Don Anderson papers, State Library of New South Wales.
6Letter, 7 April 1982, UQP papers, UQFL198, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
7Thea Astley, letter to Craig Munro, 20 January 1985, UQP papers.
8Craig Munro, letter to Laurie Muller, 23 January 1985, UQP papers.
9Laurie Muller, letter to Thea Astley, 4 March 1985, UQP papers.
10Thea Astley, letter to Brian Johns, 19 March 1985, Penguin publishing files.
11Thea Astley, letter to Corrie de Klijn, 16 April 1985, Penguin publishing files.
12Thea Astley, letter to Brian Johns, 19 March 1985, Penguin publishing files.
13Fay Zwicky, letter to Thea Astley, 12 January 1981, Thea Astley papers, UQFL97, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
14Tom Shapcott, The Literature Board: A Brief Histor
y, UQP, St Lucia, 1988, p. 209.
15ibid., p. 299.
16ibid., p. 304.
17Thea Astley, Reaching Tin River, William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1990, p. 35.
18Thea Astley in Candida Baker, ‘Cooler, Calmer and More Collected’, The Age, 31 March 1990, p. 6.
19Thea Astley, An Item from the Late News, UQP, St Lucia, 1982, pp. 51–52.
20Thea Astley, The Acolyte, UQP, St Lucia, 1980, pp. 73–74.
21Carmel Bird to author, Melbourne, 31 May 2006.
22ibid.
23Helen Garner to author, Melbourne, July 2011.
24ibid.
25Ed Gregson to author, New Brighton, 30 November 2006.
26David Malouf to author, Strathfield, May 2010.
27Thea Astley, letter to Laurie Muller, 29 August 1988, UQP papers.
28Michael McGirr to author, Melbourne, 14 March 2008.
29Marin Martinelli to author, phone interview, 27 January 2011.
30Jennifer and Bryan Bruty to author, Mittagong, February 2007.
31ibid.
32Irene Stevens and Elaine Lindsay to author, Sydney, 24 February 2008.
33Bob Sessions to author, Melbourne, 13 March 2008.
34Irene Stevens to author, Sydney, 24 February 2008.
35Rodney Hall to author, Melbourne, July 2011.
36Thea Astley, letter to Laurie Muller, 21 January 1987 and 25 March 1987, UQP papers.
37D’Arcy Randall, reader’s report, 4 June 1982, UQP papers.
38Thea Astley, letter to Peg McColl, 11 March 1986, Penguin publishing files.
39Thea Astley, letter to Peg McColl, 6 February 1987, Penguin publishing files.
40Email correspondence with Elise Goodman, June–October 2014.
41Elise Goodman, letter to Brian Johns, 13 November 1986, Penguin publishing files.
42ibid.
43Thea Astley, letter to Susan Hawthorne, 18 February 1987, Penguin publishing files.
44Thea Astley, letter to Peg McColl, 7 May 1987, Penguin publishing files.
45Thea Astley, letter to Linda Ristow, 29 September 1987, Penguin publishing files.
46Thea Astley, letter to Peg McColl, 29 October 1987, Penguin publishing files.
47Helen Garner, letter to Thea Astley, 23 September 1986, Thea Astley papers.
48Thea Astley, letter to Susan Hawthorne, 10 February 1988, Penguin publishing files.