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| Date completed: | December 2001 |
| Last updated: | April 2007 |
©2001 Australian Defence Force Academy. All rights reserved.
| Creator: | Margaret Scott, 1934-2005 |
| Title: | Papers of Margaret Scott |
| Date Range: | 1948-1986 |
| Reference Number: | MS 42 |
| Extent: | 28cm (2 boxes) |
| Repository: | Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA |
| Abstract: | Collection of correspondence, notes and manuscript drafts of Tricks of memory : poems (1980), Visited (1983), The black swans (1988) and The baby-farmer (1990). |
Collection of correspondence, notes and manuscript drafts of Tricks of memory : poems (1980), Visited (1983), The black swans (1988) and The baby-farmer (1990).
Margaret Daphne Scott was born on the 20 June 1934 in Bristol, England. Writer, poet, novelist and humourist, Margaret Scott migrated to Australia with her first husband, Michael Boddy, in 1959. From 1966 to 1989 Scott taught in the English Department at the University of Tasmania. She left teaching to become a full time writer. In 1986, after the death of her second husband, legal scholar Michael Scott, she bought and restored a house on the Tasman Peninsula in southern Tasmania. This inspired her poetry and her love for her home and surrounding area led to her being asked to write Port Arthur : a story of hope and courage. In the 1990s Scott became well known for her erudite appearances on the television shows World Series Debates and Good News Week.
In 2005 Scott was chosen for the inaugural Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women and also received the Australia Council Writers' Emeritus Award. Scott, who suffered from emphysema, died at her home on the Tasman Peninsula.
Margaret Scott died on 29 August 2005 in Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania.
Scott was awarded:
Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships, Writers' Emeritus Award, 2005, and the Centenary Medal, For outstanding contribution to Tasmanian literature.
References:
AustLit : The Resource for Australian Literature, February 2007.
Papers of Margaret Scott, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA, Australian Defence Force Academy, MS 42, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Australian poetry -- 20th century.
Australian poetry -- Tasmania -- 20th century.
Poets, Australian -- 20th century.
Women poets, Australian -- 20th century.
Box 1
Folder 1
Correspondence with publishers, literary editors, Vivian Smith, Susan Hampton, Kate Llewellyn, Peter Pierce, Tim Thorne, Gwen Harwood, Judith Rodriguez and Barbara Giles, 1975-1986
Folder 2
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of unpublished material, includes two children's plays 'The minstrel and the king' and
'A dragon for King Cambuscan', and an introduction to Effect of light : the poetry of Tasmania (c1985)