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'Intimate Archives explores the issues involved in using archival material to research the personal lives of public people, in this case of Australian writers Marjorie Barnard (1897-1987), Alieen Palmer (1915-1988) and Lesbia Harford (1891-1927). The book gives an insight into the romantic experiences of the three female writers, based on their private letters, diaries and notebooks held in the National Library of Australia and other public institutions.

Maryanne Dever, Ann Vickery and Sally Newman consider the ethical dilemmas of researching private material and discovering the "truths" revealed within. In this sense, the book is both an introverted contemplation of private affairs and an extroverted meditation on the right to acquire and assume intimate knowledge.' (Publisher's blurb)

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A 'Gift to the Nation' : The Diaries and Notebooks of CEW Bean Anne-Marie Conde , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , November vol. 39 no. 2 2011; (p. 43-64) 'How can we know what we think we know? Postmodernism insists that we can't. Seekers of historical knowledge have long looked in archives to understand the past but, as has often been discussed in archival literature, even archives are not the still points in a turning world we might have hoped for. It is not just that some records are privileged because they are selected for long-term preservation as archives while others are not. Even the records that do make it into the archives often have multifarious histories, both before and after they cross the threshold. Canadian archivist Tom Nesmith has noted that the process by which a record is created are complex, and that a record rarely comes to us unchanged from its initial inscription. These processes expand the evidence a record can carry, and he encourages us to understand 'the record we now have'. This article takes up that challenge by examining the diaries and notebooks of Charles Bean, official war correspondent and historian of Australia's part in World War I. Bean's diaries and notebooks offer a particularly rich example of how knowledge of the history of a record expands the evidence it can carry.' (43)
In the Hewett Archive Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture : In the Hewett Archive Kate Lilley , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-14) 'This paper is, circuitously, all about my mother, and me: my formal, legal role as Dorothy Hewett's literary executor (along with my brother, Tom Flood); the experience of growing up in the archive and of being, in a sense, part of the archive; and the task of curating a part of that archive as the editor of the new Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett published by the University of Western Australia Press.' (p. 10)
Untitled Shauna Hicks , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , May vol. 38 no. 1 2010; (p. 144-147)
— Review of The Intimate Archive : Journeys through Private Papers Maryanne Dever , Ann Vickery , Sally Newman , 2009 single work criticism
Busybodies? Voyeurs? Time to Get a Life Felicity Plunkett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , June vol. 5 no. 5 2010; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Creative Lives : Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists Penelope Hanley , 2009 selected work biography ; The Intimate Archive : Journeys through Private Papers Maryanne Dever , Ann Vickery , Sally Newman , 2009 single work criticism ; Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life J. M. Coetzee , 2009 single work novel Plunkett 'contemplates the troubled relationship between biographical writing and fiction.'
Fishing Nets Sylvia Martin , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 314 2009; (p. 53)
— Review of The Intimate Archive : Journeys through Private Papers Maryanne Dever , Ann Vickery , Sally Newman , 2009 single work criticism
Fishing Nets Sylvia Martin , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 314 2009; (p. 53)
— Review of The Intimate Archive : Journeys through Private Papers Maryanne Dever , Ann Vickery , Sally Newman , 2009 single work criticism
Busybodies? Voyeurs? Time to Get a Life Felicity Plunkett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , June vol. 5 no. 5 2010; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Creative Lives : Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists Penelope Hanley , 2009 selected work biography ; The Intimate Archive : Journeys through Private Papers Maryanne Dever , Ann Vickery , Sally Newman , 2009 single work criticism ; Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life J. M. Coetzee , 2009 single work novel Plunkett 'contemplates the troubled relationship between biographical writing and fiction.'
Untitled Shauna Hicks , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , May vol. 38 no. 1 2010; (p. 144-147)
— Review of The Intimate Archive : Journeys through Private Papers Maryanne Dever , Ann Vickery , Sally Newman , 2009 single work criticism
In the Hewett Archive Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture : In the Hewett Archive Kate Lilley , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-14) 'This paper is, circuitously, all about my mother, and me: my formal, legal role as Dorothy Hewett's literary executor (along with my brother, Tom Flood); the experience of growing up in the archive and of being, in a sense, part of the archive; and the task of curating a part of that archive as the editor of the new Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett published by the University of Western Australia Press.' (p. 10)
A 'Gift to the Nation' : The Diaries and Notebooks of CEW Bean Anne-Marie Conde , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , November vol. 39 no. 2 2011; (p. 43-64) 'How can we know what we think we know? Postmodernism insists that we can't. Seekers of historical knowledge have long looked in archives to understand the past but, as has often been discussed in archival literature, even archives are not the still points in a turning world we might have hoped for. It is not just that some records are privileged because they are selected for long-term preservation as archives while others are not. Even the records that do make it into the archives often have multifarious histories, both before and after they cross the threshold. Canadian archivist Tom Nesmith has noted that the process by which a record is created are complex, and that a record rarely comes to us unchanged from its initial inscription. These processes expand the evidence a record can carry, and he encourages us to understand 'the record we now have'. This article takes up that challenge by examining the diaries and notebooks of Charles Bean, official war correspondent and historian of Australia's part in World War I. Bean's diaries and notebooks offer a particularly rich example of how knowledge of the history of a record expands the evidence it can carry.' (43)
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