Papers of Margaret Diesendorf
MSS 228
Collection Title
Papers of Margaret DiesendorfCollection Identifier
MSS 228Inclusive date(s)
1583 to 1993Extent and Medium
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Subject: Terms(s)
Subject: Person(s)
Subject: Organisation(s)
Collection Description
Original manuscripts, correspondence, poetry drafts and biographical papers relating to Margaret Diesendorf and her literary circle, together with a late 16th century ancestral land tenure manuscript on parchment with wax seal
Administrative / Biographical history
Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Diesendorf
Margaret Diesendorf née Máté (1912–1993), was an Australian linguist, poet, editor, translator and educationist. Born in Vienna, Austria, Diesendorf migrated to Australia in 1939. She published two books of poetry, made numerous translations of other people's works, and with Grace Perry, edited Poetry Australia
References:
Judith Beveridge, 'Diesendorf, Margaret (1912–1993)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/diesendorf-margaret-29670/text36654, published online 2020, accessed online 15 April 2020
AustLit, Margaret Diesendorf (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002- , accessed online 15 April 2020
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
This collection comprises the personal papers of linguist and poet Margaret Diesendorf, covering aspects of her life and career in Austria and Australia, editorship of Poetry Australia, and the many literary connections she maintained with poets nationally and internationally. Highlights include the sequences of correspondence relating to prominent figures such as Howard Sergeant (publisher of Britain's oldest independent poetry magazine Outposts) and Robert Graves (the celebrated British classicist and writer). Also featuring are folders of correspondence with noted Australian poets such as AD Hope, Judith Wright, Gwenn Harwood and Rosemary Dobson. Of special interest is a late 16th century ancestral land tenure manuscript, handwritten in ink on parchment with a wax seal, signed by the historic Swedish sovereigns of Poland
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 for private study and research is approved
Existence and Location of Orginals
Related and Separated Materials
Further material relating to Margaret Diesendorf (including extensive correspondence) is located in the papers of Rudi Krausman (MSS 094), Vivian Smith (MSS 041) and in the records of Poetry Australia (MSS 015) and The Oxford companion to Australian literature (MSS 011).
Separated Material
This collection originally included a number of publications, listed below. These works have been catalogued separately and added to the UNSW Canberra Academy Library collection.
Agence de L'Union Protestante Liberale. Le Nouveau Testament. Paris, 1862 (no longer held in Library)
Amanuddin, Syed. Gems & germs, with English, French and Urdu translation by Peter Ford and Mukhtar A. Chaudhry. Sumter, South Carolina: Poetry Eastwest Publications, [1978]
Amanuddin, Syed. The age of female eunuchs. Sumter, South Carolina: Poetry Eastwest, c1974
Baylebridge, William. Love redeemed. Popular edition. Sydney, NSW: Tallabila Press, 1934
Cumpston, Amy. Human, my race. Bexley, [NSW]: Pacific Press, 1955
Haley, Martin. Lucretia and the banks of Anio: an anthology of Italian poems in English
Brisbane : Printed by V.E. Martin, 1965
Haley, Martin. Trophies: taken mostly from the French of Jose Maria de Heredia. Brisbane: [s.n.], 1972
Hiener, Wilhelm. South Africa: a cycle of thirty poems. Newnham, Tasmania: The Wattle Grove Press, 1966
Klein, Johannes. Geschichte der deutschen Novelle: von Goethe bis zur Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1954
Laurent, Jacques. Mauriac sous de Gaulle. [Paris]: La table ronde, c1964
Lyrisches Holland . Lyrical poetry = La Hollande lyrique. Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers, 1954
Perry, Grace. I am the songs you sing and other poems. Sydney: Consolidated Press, 1944
Présentation-Société royale du Canada, No [1], 1943-1944. Ottawa: Société royale du Canada, 1944
Scott. L.E. Nothing but a man. Wellington, NZ: Voice Press, 1981
'Two cities', La revue bilingue de Paris, 1964 (no longer held in Library)
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.