Backhouse, Enid (Elizabeth)

Entry type: Person
Entry ID: AWE0589

(1917 – 2013)

Born 21 May 1917, Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Died 28 April 2013, , Western Australia
Occupation Novelist, Servicewoman

Summary

After serving with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAAF) during the Second World War, Elizabeth Backhouse worked as a scriptwriter with Korda Films in England. Backhouse returned to Australia in 1951. She was a writer of novels, children’s stories, plays, filmscripts, a ballet and a musical.

Archival resources

National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Elizabeth Backhouse interviewed by Stuart Reid for the Battye Library collection [sound recording]
State Library of Western Australia
- Papers, 1933-2001 [manuscript].

Published resources

Book
- Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988
Resource Section
- BACKHOUSE, ENID ELIZABETH, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1069518
Resource
- AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au/
- Trove: Backhouse, Enid (1917-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-743092

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- Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) (1941 - 1947)

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