The Australian Women's Register

Papers maintained by Beckett while researching her biography Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Angus & Robertson, 1992), including correspondence, interviews, articles, press clippings, correspondence, drafts, financial records and other. There are also papers relating to a proposed documentary film on Glanville-Hicks’ life. Correspondents include Yehudi Menuhin, Gore Vidal, Leonard Bernstein, and Peter Sculthorpe. Other papers include drafts and final copies of Beckett’s works, in particular her plays, radio plays, an outline for an intended novel and a libretto for ‘Beckett’. There are also transcripts of interviews by Beckett with Lawrence Durrell and Paul Bowles, and other related papers. Publications by Beckett, received with the papers, have been incorporated into the Library’s book collection.