• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0840

Foster, Irene M

  • Occupation Journalist

Summary

Irene Foster was a leader of many circles in the Adelaide Lyceum Club including the Literature Circle. She wrote book reviews for thirty years and was a preliminary judge for the Adelaide Advertiser Literary Competition.

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Irene M. Foster : SUMMARY RECORD
    • Interview with Maxwell Edgar Fatchen [sound recording] Interviewers: Roxy Byrne and Yvonne Abbott
  • National Library of Australia
    • [Biographical cuttings on Irene Foster, former literary critic, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
  • Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
    • Letters, 1971-1972: to the University of Queensland.

Published resources

  • Journal Article
    • Mary Gilmore - A Memoir, Foster, I. M, 1972
    • 'Richard Mahony's Tragedy', Foster, I. M, 1970
    • South Australian Literature 1836-1900, Foster, I. M, 1960
  • Resource
    • Trove

Related entries


  • Membership
    • Lyceum Club Adelaide Incorporated (1922 - )