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| 2018.0057 [MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS] |
| Date Range of Records: |
1947-2012 |
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The Germaine Greer Archive has been made available due to its historical and research importance. Statements which form part of the collection are not made on behalf of the University and do not represent the University’s views. It contains material that some researchers might find confronting. This includes: explicit language and images that reflect either the attitudes of the era in which the material was originally published or the views of the creators of the material but may not be considered appropriate today; names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in published and unpublished printed material, audio recordings and photographs; graphic descriptions of medical conditions and treatment.
The Miscellaneous papers series comprises estrays and oversized items, such as certificates for award of a Centenary Medal to Germaine Greer, signed by John Howard (2003) and a National Trust of Australia certificate of award to Germaine Greer as a National Living Treasure (1998). The three units hold 31 files in total.
The series contains the earliest file in the Greer Archive; two pages of the Bedlam funny faces party game, filled out by a nine-year-old Greer and a cousin in 1949 (2018.0057.00010). The pictures were inserted into Wild Life Illustrated (c.1945, Oldhams Press), a book Greer had in her office at The Mills, Essex. It is the only record in the archive relating to Greer’s childhood.
Another record that was slipped into a book is a travel note Greer wrote on a plane from Jamaica in late 1970 as she returned from a 2-week holiday before The Female Eunuch came out in New York (2018.0057.00009). ‘No one knows who I am and all is well,’ Greer writes in the note.
Dr Katrina Dean, who packed Greer’s archive in Essex in 2014, wrote information relating to these two records on the folders in which they are housed. This information forms the basis of the item title. Square brackets around an item title indicate the label has been applied by the archivist (eg [Bedlam], [Loose items] or [Germaine Greer, PhD]. Other file titles mirror the ones supplied by Greer or an assistant (eg Mr Wrong (81?) Fall, 1980 or No Return Ticket Clyde Packer 1984).
Other notable early papers include Greer’s Australia British Passport, issued 12 August 1964, as she was about to leave Australia and take a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge and early second-wave feminist ephemera, like a booklet, The Political Economy of Women's Liberation by Margaret Benston (1969).
A substantial folder of miscellaneous items contains papers relating to the Women’s Organisation of Iran, Stump Cross Books, Sex and Destiny and more (2018.0057.00002) while a file labelled Wolfers, Charlotte holds letters about translation requests, for The Female Eunuch, from Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Two files contain evidence of Greer’s work to construct, re-construct and arrange the records that now comprise the Greer Archive. Melissa - work in progress (2018.0057.00006) holds papers relating the work of Melissa Osborne, the audio-visual archivist Germaine Greer hired in 2012 to find copies of program and films that were not held in the Greer Archive. [Loose items] includes a note from Greer on dates and place of residence between 1969 and 1994.
Estray Women Painters from Drawer 3 (2018.0057.00012) contains a 4-page, inventory titled GG Art, that lists selected pieces of Greer’s writing on women and men artists, between the 1970s and 2002. Other files are estrays relating to Stump Cross Books (research notes and index cards), to Greer's art writing for The Guardian, university teaching and speaking engagements generated by Greer's expertise as a scholar of Shakespeare.
Several items have been relocated from this series to the Annotated Reference Publications series. The first two items in unit 1, a copy of Rossetti (1908), a book Germaine Greer borrowed from University of Melbourne Library, is now 2016.0137.00043 and Songs for Peace: 100 songs of the peace movement, compiled and edited by the Student Peace Union has also been relocated to one of the publications series and is now 2016.0137.00044
The fifteenth and sixeteen items in unit 1 have also been relocated. Fortunia: A Tale by Mme D'Aulnoy (1974), a children’s paperback translated by Richard Schaubeck and illustrated by Maurice Sendak and signed by Sendak and Schaubeck, is now 2016.0137.00045. Les Deux Soeurs Tam et Cam: Dessins de Ta Thuc Binh (1971), an illustrated children’s book in French, is now 2016.0137.00046
Jim Haynes [Weird Fucks], by Lynne Tillman (Paris: Handshake Editions) the 21st item in estrays box, is now 2016.0137.00047. Jim Haynes was the publisher of Handshake editions. |
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| 3 units (0.82m) |
| Collection Category: |
Culture and the Arts, individuals |
| Access Conditions: |
Access: Restricted |
| Finding Aids: |
Yes listed ONLINE |
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