Elizabeth Jolley aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1929-1999

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

9668157

Elizabeth Jolley, nee Knight, was born in Birmingham, England in 1923. She was educated in Europe and England, and attended the Quaker Sibford School near Banbury, Oxfordshire, 1934-1940. Writing from an early age, she completed an unpublished novel ca.1939. She left school in 1940 and worked as a nurse during the Second World War. In 1959 Elizabeth Jolley migrated to Western Australia with her husband, Leonard, and three children. She began submitting fiction for publication in the 1960s and wrote stories for the BBC World Service. Some of her unpublished stories bore the pen-name, Rosemma. In the 1970s she contributed stories, radio plays and scripts to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. She has taught creative writing as writer-in-residence at Western Australian tertiary institutions and as tutor at leisure classes and workshops organised through the Fremantle Arts Centre Arts Access Scheme. Her published books include three collections of short stories, Five acre virgin (1976), The travelling entertainer (1979) and Woman in a lampshade (1983); three volumes of literature notes, Travelling notebook one, two and three (1978-1979); and 15 novels, Palomino (1980), The newspaper of Claremont Street (1981), Mr. Scobie's riddle (1983), Miss Peabody's inheritance (1983), Milk and honey (1984), Foxybaby (1985), The well (1986), The Sugar Mother (1988), My Father's Moon (1989), Cabin Fever (1990), The Georges' Wife (1993), The Orchard Thieves (1995), Lovesong (1997), An Accommodating Spouse (1999) and An Innocent Gentleman (2001).

COLLECTION 1
Elizabeth Jolley papers, ca. 1939, 1950-1987

COLLECTION 2
Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1971-1988

COLLECTION 3
Elizabeth Jolley further papers, ca. 1960, 1983-1991

COLELCTION 4
Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1934-1993

COLLECTION 5
Elizabeth Jolley further papers, ca. 1929-1996

COLLECTION 6
Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1935-1996

COLLECTION 7
Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1970, 1987-1999