Papers of Margaret Scott
MSS 042
Collection Title
Papers of Margaret ScottCollection Identifier
MSS 042Inclusive date(s)
1948 to 1990Extent and Medium
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Subject: Person(s)
Collection Description
Collection of correspondence, notes and manuscript drafts of Tricks of memory : poems (1980), Visited (1983), The black swans (1988) and The baby-farmer (1990).
Administrative / Biographical history
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Scott_(author)
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.
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
Collection of correspondence, notes and manuscript drafts of Tricks of memory : poems (1980), Visited (1983), The black swans (1988) and The baby-farmer (1990).
Access Restrictions
Other
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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright.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 Margaret Scott for private study and research is approved.
Existence and Location of Orginals
Related and Separated Materials
Special Collections holds further material relating to Margaret Scott:
PR 9619.3 .S371 M3 1994 - Margaret Scott reads her poetry at the Australian Defence Force Academy Library on 7 September 1994
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.