by Jill Roe
26SMH, 2/9/1940, p. 11 (Brian Fitzpatrick also spoke). The Central Cultural Council was a joint organisation of the FAW and the Writers’ Association.
27‘Literature’, ML MSS 445/37/14, published in the conference proceedings ‘Culture in Wartime’, c.1941, repr. A Gregarious Culture (text only), also reported J. G. Shain, ‘Miles Franklin — Literary Product of Australia’, The Listener In, Sept. 28–Oct. 1940.
28SMF to KSP, 6/6/1940, and KSP to SMF, 14/10/1940, FP vol. 23, and Ferrier, As Good as a Yarn with You; Helen Thomas to R. G. Menzies, 26/7/1940 and protest (attached), NAA series 1608/1, item A39/2/2 PT; ‘Our Constitutional Rights’, FP vol. 60, Freedom, Bulletin of the Youth Freedom Council, 5/9/1940 (ML), and SMH, 13/9/1940, p. 8; SMF to MDR, 17/10/1940, MDR Papers; SMF to Mabel Singleton, 11/10/1940, FP vol. 25; Jean Shain to SMF, 9/10/1940, FP vol. 34; and ‘Knitting Is Not Enough’, ML MSS 445/37, broadcast 2GZ (Country Broadcasting Services Ltd), 17/11/1940.
29Pixie O’Harris (Mrs Rona Olive Pratt) (1903–91), children’s book illustrator and author (OCAL), first letter to SMF, 28/7/1941, FP vol. 35; ‘Lion Takes Coward’s Way’, SMH, 28/4/2004, p. 17 (Coward’s visit). For the publication of the Easter Show story see ch. 13, pp. 268–9.
30PD, 11/12/1940; Invitation, Presentation of Awards, Memorial College of Household Arts and Science, Kirribilli, 11/12/1940, ML MSS 3659/1. Dr Booth served as president of the Anzac Fellowship until 1956, ADB vol. 7.
31PD, 17/7/1941; N. J. Franklin, Certificate of Discharge, 21/10/1942, FP vol. 113X.
32PD, 10/8/1941, Diaries, pp. 133–4; SMF to Desmond Fitzgerald, 13/7/1941, FP vol. 33.*
33Ian Mayelston Mudie (1911–76), ADB vol. 15; SMF to Ian Mudie, 20/7/1941, Mudie Papers.* The Franklin–Mudie corres. (FP vol. 39, 1942–54) amounts to almost 500 pages, with later and earlier items in the Mudie Papers. Corroboree in the Sun was published in 1930. OCAL has a succinct account of the Jindyworobak movement. South Australian– born Reginald Charles Ingamells (1913–55) was a poet and editor (ADB vol. 14).
34SMF to Mary Fullerton, 22/9/1941, FP vol. 18;* SMH, 1/9/1941, p. 6 (2300 delegates).
35‘Literature and Drama’, Soviet Culture: A Selection of Talks, Sydney, 1941, pp. 73–7 (ML), repr. A Gregarious Culture; also ML MSS 445/37/19, ‘Women and Children’. The day session of the conference was held in the Education Building, the evening session at the New Theatre Club, 36 Pitt St.
36Australian Civil Rights Defence League, A. H. Garnsey Papers, ML MSS 7101/11/3, and Stuart Macintyre, The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998, p. 404; Bulletin, 19/11/1941, p. 36; Throssell, Wild Weeds and Wind Flowers, p. 108; PD, 4/4/1941, talk on Serbia, PD, 2/12/1941, FP vol. 445/36; Norman Haire (1892–1953) was doctor and sexologist (ADB vol. 14).
37Leslie Kevin Cahill (1902/04–1955), labourer and ex-communist, recruited from Melbourne by P. R. Stephensen, would join the army in Jan. 1942, allegedly to organise nationalist revolt from within (see Bruce Muirden, Puzzled Patriots: The Story of the Australia First Movement, Melbourne Univ. Press, Carlton, Vic, 1968, p. 72, and Barbara Winter, The Australia-First Movement and the Publicist, 1936–1942, Glass House Books, Qld, 2005, pp. 47, 203).
38For more on The Timeless Land, published 1941, see SMF to Grattan family, 10/2/1942, Grattan Colln, and SMF to MDR, 19/2/1942, MDR Papers, both.*
39SMH, 26/1/1942, p. 10 (death notice), Mutch Index, ML m/film C572; Alice Henry to SMF, 2/2/1942, FP vol. 11.
40SMH, 23/2/1942, p. 4; Tom Nelson, The Hungry Mile, Waterside Workers’ Federation, Sydney, 1957, p. 25; ‘The “Adyar Hall” Incident’, Publicist, Mar. 1942, p. 12, states Stephensen spoke for 90 minutes.
41SMF to Ian Mudie, 27/2/[1942], Mudie Papers; ‘Boos, Blows, Cat-Calls at New Party’s Birth,’ Daily Mirror, 6/11/1941, p. 10; Muirden, Puzzled Patriots: The Story of the Australia First Movement, Melbourne Univ. Press, Carlton, Vic, 1968, p. 66; SMF to W. J. Miles, 21/7/1941, ML MSS 330; SMF to Ian Mudie, 23/5/1942, FP vol. 36; Craig Munro, ‘Australia First — Women Last: Pro-Fascism and Anti-feminism in the 1930s’, Hecate 1983, vol. 9, pp. 25–34. The Shalimar Café was located in the basement of the T&G Building, Elizabeth St. Re Morley Roberts (1857–1942) see Miller and Macartney, Australian Literature, pp. 404–6 and ODNB.
42Susan Sheridan, ‘Louisa Lawson, Miles Franklin and Feminist Writing’, Australian Femininst Studies, 1988, vols 7–8; I am grateful to Beverley Kingston for discussion of this frequently overlooked distinction.
43This account is largely based on Muirden, Puzzled Patriots (see n. 41) and Munro, Wild Man of Letters, sixteen men were interned in all, and separately, Pankhurst Walsh.
44SMF to Ian Mudie, 23/3/1942, FP vol. 36;* SMF to Ian Mudie, 6/4/1942, Mudie Papers; SMF to Ian Mudie, 21/4/1942, FP vol. 36;* SMF to C. H. Grattan, 8/6/1942, FP vol. 23.
45SMF to Ian Mudie, 23/3/1942 and 21/4/1942, FP vol. 36, both.*
46SMF to C. B. Christesen, 15/10/1942, MA, and C. B. Christesen to SMF, 9/11/1942, FP vol. 35; ‘Henry Lawson’, Meanjin Papers, 1942, vol. 1, no. 12, repr. A Gregarious Culture(the virtually identical ABC script at ABC Archives, Accessioned Talks, Scripts, SP 300, Box 8, was published by Escutcheon Press, Pearl Beach, NSW, 1999, as ‘Miles Franklin: A Personal Tribute to Henry Lawson’ (Biblionews, 1999, vol. 24, no. 4)); Miles received five guineas for the broadcast; ‘Our Best Poets’, Southerly, 1942, vol. 3, no. 2; ‘Australia is so far away’, FP vol. 58.
47Martin, Ida Leeson, p. 112, and PD, 8–13/10/1942; SMF to Victor Kennedy, 18/10/1942 and 29/12/1942, Kennedy Papers; W. G. Cousins to SMF, 27/11/1942, FP vol. 103; SMF to Mary Fullerton, 2/11/1942, FP vol. 18; Douglas Stewart to SMF, 6/11/[1942], FP vol. 37, and SMF to H. S. Temby, 2/11/1942, FP vol. 103; Bulletin, 3/2/1943, ‘Red Page’. The title is from ‘Piety’ a characteristically terse verse in the volume. NZ-born Douglas Stewart (1913–85) a leading poet, was editor of the Bulletin’s ‘Red Page’ 1940–61, and literary editor with Angus & Robertson 1961–71 (OCAL).
48Index, Southerly, vol. 1, 1939–61, p. 67; SMF to Victor Kennedy, 29/12/1942, Kennedy Papers. Victor Kennedy (1895–1952) was a journalist and freelance writer, (ADB S).
49Union Recorder, 11/2/1943 (Eng. Ass. Dinner, 19/11/1942); PD, 19/11/1942. Elisabeth Lambert, journalist and poet, was b. England (1915–2003) (OCAL).
50SMF to KSP [Jun. 1942];* PD, 4/5/1942, and Eve Langley to SMF, 27/5/1942 (p.m.), ML MSS 3659/1; SMF to Alice Henry, 18/6/1942, FP vol. 115,* and SMF to Mary Anderson, 2/8/1942. Eve Langley (1904–74), ADB vol. 15; PD, 28/12/1942; FP vol. 4, p. 162, repr. Diaries, 28/10/1942, p. 143.
51SMF to Isabel Newsham, 19/2/1943, FP vol. 29; Kirkby, Alice Henry, p. 223; SMF to Nettie Palmer, 19/10/1943, FP vol. 24.*
52Douglas Stewart to SMF, 28/1/1943, FP vol. 37; SMF to Beatrice Davis, 30/12/1943, FP vol. 38. ‘Joseph Furphy’s Centenary’, ABC Weekly, 4/12/1943, p. 6; ‘Letters from Joseph Furphy to Miles Franklin’, Meanjin Papers, Spring 1943, pp. 14–16; Communist Review, Sept. 1943, pp. 22–4, repr. A Gregarious Culture. The statement is printed in My Congenials, vol. 2, p. 98.
53SMF to Frank Ryland, 27/4/1943, FP vol. 37.*
54Nettie Palmer to SMF, 9/5/1935, FP vol. 24.*
55Muir Holburn (1920–60), president FAW 1948–50, and Marjorie Pizer (1920–2016), were poets (letters beginning 1944 when still in Melbourne are at FP vol. 39 and Holburn Papers, uncat. mss, 530/8).
56Harold Ickes to SMF, 27/1/1944, FP vol. 12;* SMF to Elisabeth Christman, 3/4/1944, FP vol. 38; Kathleen Ussher to SMF, 20/11/[1944], ML MSS 3659/1; SMF to Mary Fullerton, 24/3/1944, FP vol. 18;* Australian Women’s Digest, Sept. 1943, vol. 1, no. 2, inside cover (SMF’s contributions are listed Bettison and Roe, ALS, listing, 2001); PD, 19–20/11/1943, Tribune, 13/7/1944, p. 7 (Ed. Bd); Vivienne Newson (1891–1973), ADB vol. 15.
57PD, 1/11/1944; SMF to Mary Fullerton, 3/11/1944, FP vol. 19; ‘S’, ‘Partly Joseph Furphy’, Bulletin, 13/12/1944, p. 2; SMF to Kate Baker, 14/11/1944 and 8/12/1944, both FP vol. 9A; Bulletin, 13/12/1944, ‘Red Page’, A. D. H
ope, ‘Review of Miles Franklin’s Joseph Furphy’, Meanjin Papers, 1945, vol. 4, no, 3, repr. The Australian Nationalists, ed. Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Oxford Univ. Press, Melbourne, 1971; Fellowship Feb. 1945, p. 2 (Patricia Thompson); SMH, 10/3/1945, p. 7; Southerly, 1945, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 56 (H. J. Oliver); Argus Literary Supplement, 27/1/1945, p. 1. Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) lectured in English at Sydney Teachers College 1938–44 and was appointed professor of English at Canberra Univ. College in 1951.
58SMH, 21/4/1944, p. 3, and PD, 21–28/4/1944; Martyn Lyons, ‘The Book Trade and the Australian Reader in 1945’, History of the Book in Australia, vol. 2, eds Martyn Lyons and John Arnold, Univ. of Qld Press, St Lucia, Qld, p. 402. Southerly, 1945, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 14–15, and SMH, 29/4/1944, p. 6; R. G. Howarth to SMF, 20/5/1944, and SMF to R. G. Howarth, 22/5/1944, FP vol. 33, both;* ‘Miss Gillespie’s tragedy’, FP vol. 4, pp. 141–8. George Clune (1889–1953) was also a restaurateur (NSW BMD index, Sydney Telephone Directory, 1946).
59George Clune to SMF, 9/11/1944, and SMF to George Clune, 1/12/1944, ML MSS 3659/1, George Clune to SMF, 7/6/1946, FP vol. 81; Lesley Heath, ‘Sydney Literary Societies of the Nineteen Twenties’, PhD thesis, p. 59.
60PD, 9/8/1944; Diaries, pp. 156–7.
61Barnard, Miles Franklin, p. 3.
62‘Miles Franklin and Brent of Bin Bin’, Barnard Papers, ML MSS 451/3.
63Roderick, Miles Franklin, p. 166; Colin Roderick to SMF, 15/11/1944, FP vol. 38; SMF to Vance Palmer, 25/11/1944, and SMF to Colin Roderick, 22/11/1944, both Palmer Papers. Colin Roderick (1911–2000) was foundation professor of English at Townsville University College (later James Cook Univ.), 1965–76. The Australian Novel was published by William Brooks & Co, Sydney, 1945.
64Colin Roderick to SMF, 2/12/1944, SMF to Colin Roderick 6/4/1945, both ML MSS 3659/1, SMF to Colin Roderick 17/6/1945, FP vol. 38; SMH, 14/4/1945, p. 10 (a positive review of the anthology).
65SMF to Ian Mudie, 19/1/1945, FP vol. 36, and Mudie Papers; SMF to Kate Baker, 18/1/1945, Baker Papers.
66SMF to Ian Mudie, 4/2/1945, FP vol. 36.
67North, Yarn Spinners, pp. 63–5, 70; Dymphna Cusack, ‘My Friendship with Miles Franklin’, Ink no. 2, 50th Anniversary edn, Hilarie Lindsay, Society of Women Writers, Sydney, 1977.
68‘Call Up Your Ghosts!’, FP vol. 62 and ML MSS 445/25, repr. Penguin Anthology of Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Spender, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Vic, 1988; research material for Sydney Royal, FP vol. 56, pp. 104–43.
69Dymphna Cusack to SMF, 25/7/1945, FP vol. 30.
70George Clune to SMF, 17/5/1945, FP vol. 81; SMF to Lucy Spence Morice, 18/4/1945, FP vol. 22;* Miles Franklin, ‘Australian Classic No. 4: Clara Morison’, Australian New Writing, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1945, pp. 42–6.
71 SMF to Nettie Palmer, 28/3/1945, Palmer Papers; SMF to Ian Mudie, FP vol. 36, p. 287; Bulletin, 23/5/1945, p. 9, and SMH, 5/6/1945, p. 4; ‘Australian Writers Need Courage’, SMH, 21/7/1945, p. 6, repr. A Gregarious Culture; David Carter, ‘The Mystery of the Missing Middlebrow, or the C(o)urse of Good Taste’, Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, eds Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Australian Studies Committee, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge Mass., 2004, p. 192; Miles Franklin, ‘You Can Share in this Job for Australian Literature’, Book News, Aug. 1945, no. 1, p. 1 (copy, Ingamells Papers). Henry Seidel Canby (1878–1961) served as a liaison officer for the US Office of War Information while lecturing in Australia in 1945 (ANB).
72SMF to KSP and others, 6/10/1945, p. 2, report on the progress of book selection, FP vol. 21. Sidney J. Baker (1912–76), ADB vol. 13.
73Corres. between W. Blake and Dymocks Book Arcade 5/12/1944–16/1/1945, FP vol. 86; SMF to Ian Mudie, 4/4/1945, FP vol. 36.
74SMF to Mary Fullerton, 5/6/1945, FP vol. 19; SMF to Catherine Duncan, 22/2/1945, FP 38.* ‘Australian Drama — Its Dearth and the Remedy’, New Theatre Review (Melbourne), Aug.–Sept. 1945, pp. 2, 8; Annette Bain, ‘“Brighter Days?”: Challenges to Live Theatre in the Thirties’, Twentieth Century Sydney, ed. Jill Roe, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1980.
75Companion to Theatre in Australia, ed. Philip Parsons with Victoria Chance, Currency Press in association with Cambridge Univ. Press, Sydney, c.1995, pp. 437–8 (competitions), entry by Leslie Rees; Arrow, Upstaged, ch. 1; Pfisterer, Playing with Ideas, p. 243.
76SMF to J. B. Chifley, 14/10/1945, FP vol. 39;* Richard Nile and David Walker, History of the Australian Book, vol. 2, eds Martyn Lyons and John Arnold, Univ. of Qld Press, St Lucia, Qld, p. 17; SMF to Ian Mudie, 18/12/1945, Mudie Papers. Joseph Benedict Chifley (1885– 1951), Labor Prime Minister of Australia 1945–49, Leader of the Opposition 1950–51 (ADB vol. 13). John Curtin (1885–1945), Labor Prime Minister of Australia 1941–45 (ADB vol. 13).
77PD, 12/9/1945; SMF to Elisabeth Christman, 20/4/1945, and Elisabeth Christman to SMF, 20/7/1945, FP vol. 24, both;* SMF to RR, 20/4/1945, MDR Papers.
78SMF to Mabel Singleton, 16/11/1945, FP vol. 25; SMF to Frank Ryland, 28/9/1945, FP vol. 37.
Chapter 13 — The Waratah Cup
1SMF to Frank Ryland, 11/1/1948, FP vol. 37.
2SMF to Kathleen Monypenny, 5/2/1946, FP vol. 22, and SMF to P. R. Stephensen, 4/3/1946, FP vol. 28, both*.
3SMF to Mary Fullerton and Mabel Singleton, 5/2/1946, FP vol. 19.
4SMF to Mabel Singleton, 27/2/1946, FP vol. 25;* SMF to Lydia Chester, 3/5/1946, FP vol. 35. In addition to the two volumes of verse published by Angus & Robertson, at least 29 single poems by Mary Fullerton appeared in anthologies 1942–46, thanks to SMF’s efforts.
5‘Books Published in Australia’, Australasian Book News and Library Journal (hereafter Book News), Oct. 1946, p. 162. Reviews of The Wonder and the Apple, e.g. Bulletin, 29/5/1946, p. 2, and Southerly, 1947, no. 2, pp. 115–16, suggest a polite acceptance, and few copies of the slim volume were sold, Angus & Robertson to SMF, 6/9/1948, Angus & Robertson Corres., ML MSS 3269, vol. 274, p. 515.
6Sylvia Martin’s Passionate Friends, offers an illuminating exposition of the Franklin– Fullerton corres.
7SMF to Mary Fullerton, 13/1/1946, FP vol. 19; SMF to Mabel Singleton, 27/2/1946, FP vol. 25,* Mabel Singleton to SMF, 31/1/1946, FP vol. 25; Mary Fullerton to SMF, 3/2/1946, FP vol. 19.
8SMF’s corres. with Georgian House is at FP vol. 84; see also Edgar Harris, FP vol. 39. Beatrice Davis to SMF, 21/8/1946, FP vol. 38; Henrietta Drake-Brockman to SMF, 2/9/1946, and SMF to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, 9/9/1946, FP vol. 33 (and review, Fellowship, 1946, no. 3); Dymphna Cusack to SMF, 14/8/1946, FP vol. 30, (all four letters*); Rose Lindsay to SMF, 20/1/1949, ML MSS 3659/1; Aileen Goldstein to SMF, 23/2/1947, and SMF to Aileen Goldstein, [22/6/1947], FP vol. 10; SMF to RR, 4/9/1946, FP vol. 39. Reviews: ‘Sybylla’s Career’, Bulletin, 21/8/1946, ‘Red Page’; Meanjin, 1947, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 134–5; H. M. Green, Southerly, 1947, no. 4, p. 123. Rose Lindsay (1885–1978), artist’s model, esp. of husband, Norman, and writer (ADB S).
9SMF to Dear Girls, [n.d., Sept./Oct. 1946], FP vol. 30,* and Dymphna Cusack to SMF, Monday [Sept./Oct. 1946], FP vol. 30; North, Yarn Spinners, pp. 97, 385; Cusack, ‘My Friendship’, p. 113.
10‘The Pursuit of Glamour’, 1946–47, FP vol. 84; Bridget Griffen-Foley, ‘Revisiting the “Mystery of a Novel Contest”: The Daily Telegraph and Come in Spinner’, ALS, vol. 19, no. 4, 2000.
11SMF to Nettie Palmer, 26/7/1946, FP vol. 24; ‘No Family’ (1937, ML MSS 3659/1, text repr. Tremendous Worlds: Australian Women’s Drama 1890–1960, ed. Susan Pfisterer, Currency Press, Sydney, 1999, pp. 129–42); PD, 4/7/1946, and Fellowship, Nov. 1946; SMH, 6/6/1946, FP vol. 86; Kent, A Certain Style, p. 199; Bridget Griffen-Foley, The House of Packer, HarperCollins Australia, Pymble, NSW, 1999, p. 146.
12Florence James to SMF, 7/10/1947, FP vol. 30.*
13Florence James to SMF, 20/11/1946, FP vol. 30; Marjorie Pizer to SMF, Thurs. 17 [late 1946], FP vol. 39.*
14Rex Ingamells to SMF, 18/3/1947, and reply 19/3/1947, FP vol. 40. Roland Robinson (1902–92) was a distinguished po
et, regarded as the best of the ‘Jindy’ poets at the time (OCAL). Gina Ballantyne (1919–73), poet and painter, edited the 1945 Jindyworobak anthology. Flexmore Hudson (1913–88), was an Adelaide-based teacher and poet (ADB vol. 7).
15 Newcastle Morning Herald, 12/7/1947–28/8/1947, and Glen Mills Fox, ‘A Not So “Thorny Year” for Serial Author’, Newcastle Morning Herald, 12/7/1947, p. 4; ML MSS 6035/13–14 (radio play and edited pages). ‘The Thorny Rose’, ML MSS 445/13, with undated Newcastle Morning Herald cutting.
16SMF to Florence James, 14/7/1947, FP vol. 30, repr. North, Yarn Spinners, p. 122; SMF to Florence James, 16/11/1947, FP vol, 30;* Oliver Holt to SMF, 23/8/1947, FP vol. 40.
17SMF to Glen Mills Fox, 31/12/1947 (post-office work), FP vol. 40; George Ferguson to SMF, 3/2/1947, ML MSS 3659/1. Angus & Robertson Royalty Statements, FP vol. 82. George Ferguson (1910–98), grandson of George Robertson, joined Angus & Robertson in 1931 and was director of publishing 1949–71 (SMH, 15/1/1998, obit.).
18‘Books published in Australia’, Book News, Jun. 1947, p. 570; Pixie O’Harris to SMF, 18/2/c.1948, FP vol. 35; Sydney Royal: Divertissement, Shakespeare Head Press, London, Sydney, [1947], pb., back cover; Griffin-Foley, House of Packer, HarperCollins Australia, Pymble, NSW, 1999, p. 153; SMF to Dymphna Cusack and Florence James, 1/12/1946 and 11/2/1947, Cusack Papers, NLA, repr. North, Yarn Spinners. Nan Knowles was a freelance illustrator who had shared a studio with Florence James after she came back from London in 1938, and later returned to London (North, Yarn Spinners, pp. 101, 204).
19SMF to Glen Mills Fox, 3/12/1947, FP vol. 40. Leslie Haylen (1898–1977), b. near Queanbeyan, was a writer and politician (ADB vol. 14); SMF to KSP, 20/11/1947, FP vol. 21; Jill Roe, ‘The Historical Imagination and its Enemies: M. Barnard Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’, [1983 edn], Meanjin, 1984, vol. 43, no. 2; SMF to Henrietta Drake-Brockman, 3/4/1947, FP vol. 33.
20SMF to KSP, 20/11/1947, FP vol. 21;* SMF to RR, 5/1/1946 [1947], FP vol. 39. William Charles Wentworth (1907–2003), MHR for Mackellar 1949–77, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1968–72, returned from the war in 1943 and became a businessman and anticommunist campaigner, writing several anti-socialist pamphlets 1947–48.