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Item details for: A1200, L21540
Title
 Personalities - Literature - Rosina Ruth Park (Mrs D'Arcy Niland) was born in Auckland, New Zealand - At the outbreak of World War II she had a staff appointment on the Auckland Star and during the war was thrown into general newspaper reporting - In 1941 she came to Sydney and later married D'Arcy Niland and began her career as a freelance writer - When her husband went outback as a shearer she followed him, taking various jobs as shearer's cook and as offsider - On their return to Sydney in 1943 the Nilands, desperate for accommodation, rented rooms in a tenement in Surry Hills - Out of her experience of life in that neighbourhood Ruth Park wrote the prize winning novel, The Harp in the South and its sequel, Poor Man's Orange CATEGORY: photograph FORMAT: b&w negative TYPE: cellulose acetate STATUS: preservation material
Contents date range
 1956 - 1956
Series number
 A1200
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Control symbol
 L21540
Citation
 NAA: A1200, L21540
Item ID
 11475113
Location
 Canberra
Access status
 Open
Physical format
 PHOTOGRAPHS (allocated at series level)
Item notes

Summary heading

Personalities - Literature

Descriptive note

Her publications include: The Harp in the South (2000 Pond Sydney Morning Herald prize for novel competition)     Poor Man’s Orange; The Witch’s Thorn (1951); A Power of Roses (1953); Pink Flannel (1955) Australia’s 55 (non-fiction)
Visibility and availability indicators
 76. Item charge: Photographic
Keyword headings
  • PERSONALITIES
Date registered
 16 May 2001

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