Beatrice Davis collection, 1919-1989

fonds

1919-1989

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Drawings, Objects, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

447390

2.25 metres of textual material (11 boxes, 10 folders, 1 outsize folder, 1 outsize box) includes photographs - manuscript, typescript, typescript, with manuscript annotations and corrections, typescript, carbon, typescript, carbon, with manuscript annotations and corrrections, and printed
Clippings
Drawings
Objects
Sound Recordings

Beatrice Deloitte Davis (1909-1992), editor, was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the second child and only daughter of Charles Herbert Davis and his wife, Emily Beatrice, nee Deloitte. She was educated at North Sydney High School and graduated B.A. from the University of Sydney in 1929. Davis became general editor with the publishers Angus & Robertson in 1937 and remained with the firm until 1973. In 1974 she joined Thomas Nelson Australia, working from home at Cammeray, overlooking Sydney's Middle Harbour, until she retired in 1981; she was retained as a consultant editor until 1986. She received a number of awards recognising her contributions to Australian publishing and Australian literature, including the M.B.E. (1963), Order of Australia (1981) and the National Book Council's 1976 Bookman's Award. Beatrice Davis married, in 1937, Frederick Bridges, medical practitioner, who predeceased her in 1945.

Papers, 1952-1989
Pictorial material and realia, 1919-1987

This collection comprises two record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.

Reproduction Restricted