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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