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FryerFoliosFryer Library, The University of Queensland Volume 4 > Number 1 > January 20093 68Thea AstleySusan Sheridan, Adjunct Professorof English and Women’s Studiesat Flinders University in Adelaide,writes about Fryer Library’sunique collection of Thea Astleymanuscripts.Gleanings fromAustralian VersePenny Whiteway, Fryer Librarylibrarian, examines an unexpectedaddition to the Hayes collection.11 13 15The johnno SagaKatherine Barnes, recipient ofthe 2008 Fryer Library Award,explores the genesis of DavidMalouf’s Johnno.Gala dinnerCathy Leutenegger, Fryer Librarylibrarian and member of theBAL project team at AustLit fortwo years, reports on a sharedcelebration.17Val VallisPaul Sherman remembers his oldfriend, Val Vallis.18What’s new in FryerAdditions to the collections,staff news, partnerships, and thewebsite.Letters to the EditorFriends of FryerNews from Fryer Library’s activegroup of supporters, the Friendsof Fryer.Cover page: Thea Astley in the early 1960s(Fryer Library, Photograph Collection, PIC 823)Fryer Folios is published twice a year by The University of Queensland Library to illustrate the range of special collections in the Fryer Library and to showcasescholarly research based on these sources. One issue was published in 2008; three issues will be published in 2009. ISSN 1834-1004 (print) ISSN 1834-1012(online). Fryer Folios is distributed to libraries and educational institutions around Australia. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please contact theSecretary, Friends of Fryer, The University of Queensland Library, The University of Queensland Q 4072. Telephone (07) 3346 9427; Fax (07) 3365 6776; Email:fryerfriends@library.uq.edu.au (Note that individuals wishing to receive a copy will need to join Friends of Fryer).Unless otherwise stated, the photographs in this magazine are taken by theFryer Library Reproduction Service. The views expressed in Fryer Folios arethose of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the viewsof the editors or publisher. Every reasonable effort has been made to contactrelevant copyright holders for illustrative material in this magazine. Where thiswas not possible, the copyright holders are invited to contact the publisher.Editors Dr Chris Tiffin, Laurie McNeice, Cathy Leutenegger, Suzanne ParkerPhotographersStewart Gould and Mark SherwoodGraphic designJanine NicklinPrinted byWestminster Printing, Milton, Qld
‘Queensland is where the tall yarn happens’The Thea Astley Collection in Fryer LibrarySusan Sheridan, Adjunct Professor of English and Women’s Studiesat Flinders University in Adelaide, writes about Fryer Library’s uniquecollection of Thea Astley manuscripts.Thea Astley (1925-2004), more thanany other novelist, has put Queenslandon the map – especially the tropicalNorth. Almost all her sixteen titlesare set in this state, of which sheonce wrote, ‘Queensland is wherethe tall yarn happens, acted out ona stage where, despite its vastness,the oddballs see and recognise eachother’. She was born and raised inBrisbane, where her father was ajournalist. She attended All HallowsConvent and The University ofQueensland, where she graduatedBachelor of Arts in 1948. For the nexttwenty years she worked as a schoolteacher, and between 1967 and 1979she taught in the English Departmentat Macquarie University. Her firstnovel, Girl with a Monkey, appeared in1958, and from then on she produceda novel or short story collection everytwo years or so. After retirement fromteaching, she lived for several yearsin Kuranda, outside Cairns, beforemoving back to New South Wales tothe South Coast.Wherever she lived, Queenslandremained the heartland of her fiction,from suburban Brisbane around1960 in Slow Natives (1965) to theFar North settings of the stories inHunting the Wild Pineapple (1979)and It’s Raining in Mango (1987) anddying small-towns like Drylands (1999).More than a regional novelist, Astleywas recognised as one of the leadingAustralian modernist fiction writersof her generation, alongside PatrickWhite and Hal Porter. She won theprestigious Miles Franklin Prize noless than four times. Yet there is noextended study of her art in existenceAbove:Thea Astley in the early1960s. Fryer Library,Photograph Collection,PIC 823Thea Astley’s greenHermes ‘Baby’ typewriter,which she used from the1950s to the 1970sJanuary 20092
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