The Australian Women's Register

Letters from Gwen Harwood and her husband, F.W. Harwood, to Alison Hoddinott and her husband W.G. Hoddinott. Includes “Sappho cards”, parodies of other Australian poets, accounts of Gwen Harwood’s first meetings with James McAuley and A.D. Hope, a full account of the Walter Lehmann “Bulletin” hoax, and manuscript poems. Also typescript for “The lion’s bride”, dream book, and Sappho cards to Thea Goodwin. Alison Hoddinott’s book, “Blessed city : the letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell January to September 1943” was awarded the “Age” Book of the Year in 1990.