Papers of Jennifer Strauss
MSS 036
Collection Title
Papers of Jennifer StraussCollection Identifier
MSS 036Inclusive date(s)
1967 to 2000Extent and Medium
Creator(s)
Category
Subject: Person(s)
Collection Description
Literary papers, including drafts of poetry, criticism, working papers. Also includes correspondence, press clippings.
Administrative / Biographical history
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Strauss
Jennifer Strauss is an Australian poet, critic, and academic. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with honours in 1954, before attending the University of Glasgow for postgraduate study. She taught at the University of New England and the University of Melbourne, before joining Monash University in 1964. She taught there from 1964 - 1998, completing a PhD in 1991 and eventually becoming an Associate Professor.
As an academic, she has published a number of critical works, including Boundary Conditions: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood (1992) and Judith Wright (1995), as well as edited The Oxford Literary History of Australia (with Bruce Bennett, 1999), Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family (1998) and the poetry of Mary Gilmore, published as The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1, 1887-1929 (2005).
She has published several collections of her own poetry since her first publication credit (as an undergraduate) in Melbourne University Magazine in 1954. These include Children and Other Strangers (1975), Winter Driving: Poems (1981), Labour Ward (1988), Tierra del Fuego (1997). She won the Christopher Breannan Award in 2009 for lifetime achievement in poetry.
Strauss has also focused on social issues throughout her career, being on the Staff Association of Monash University, the National Federation of University Staff Associations, and the Monash University Council. She was twice president of the Australian Federation of University Women (now Australian Federation of Graduate Women) Victoria and twice the national president.
As a result of her service in education, literature and workers' rights, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2007.
References:
Author record, Jennifer Strauss, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A189544, 24/01/2019]
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
A collection of literary papers of Jennifer Strauss. While some of the material dates as early as 1967 or as late as 2000, the majority of the material is from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The collection consists of drafts and working papers for both Strauss's poetic work and her academic study of Australian literature. This includes material relating to Boundary Conditions: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood (1992), several of her poetry anthologies, reviews and criticism. There are also collections of correspondence, some relating to publications.
Access Restrictions
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Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material authored by Jennifer Strauss for private study and research is approved.
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Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.