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The University of Melbourne Archives

en Records Description List
THE UNIVERSITY OF Reference Number: 2014.0038

MELBOURNE
Collection[...]minist and conservationist was born in Melbourne,
Australia on January 29, 1939. She was educated at Star of the Sea College, Gardenvale, studied
English and French literature and language at the University of Melbourne, (BA Hons) and graduated
MA (Hons I) from the University of Sydney with a thesis on Byron's satiric verse, an[...]963-1964). Greer earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge on Shakespeare's
Early Comedies and was appointed Lecturer at the University of Warwick (1967-1972). Greer was one
of the first women appointed full members of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and[...]on women's lives and
selves in the wider context of the liberation movements of that time. It created a shock wave of
recognition in women around the world, became an international bestseller and a landmark in the
history of the women's movement and was reprinted and widely[...]career as an author and was followed by a series of popular and academic books including: The
Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work 1979 , Sex and Destiny: The Politics
of Human Fertility 1984, Shakespeare 1986, The Madwo[...]sm 1964-
1985 1986, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Womers Verse, coedited 1988,
Daddy we hardly knew you (1989), The Uncollected Verse of Aphra Behn (Ed.) 1989, The Change:
Women Ageing and the Menopause 1991, The Collected Works of Katherine Philips: The Matchless
Orinda (vol. Ill[...]tion and
the Women Poet 1995, The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton (ed. with S. Hastings) 1997, The
Whole Woman 1999, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1999, 101 Poems by 101 Women (ed.) 2001[...]te Beech
2013. Greer is in addition the publisher of several volumes of seventeenth century women's writing
under the imprint Stump Cross Books.

Greer taught at the Universities of Tulsa (1979-1983) and Warwick (c. 1989-2003). She is the
president of the invertebrate charity Buglife and the founder of Friends of Gondwana Rainforest charity
which manages the Cav[...]In 2013
Greer sold her archive to the University of Melbourne, with proceeds to benefit Friends of Gondwana.
Greer is the recipient of numerous scholarships, honours and awards.

Source: Whos Who in Australia.

Date Range of 1949-2009

Collection/Series


[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Size/Extent 476 units[...]itions Access: Part restricted

Scope and Content of Collection/Series

The Germaine Greer Archive currently fills over 476 units (occupying over 80m of shelf space) mainly
documenting the period 1959-2009 and is still in the process of being created; with future deposits scheduled. It[...]outgoing correspondence including a large series of general correspondence and
smaller sets of correspondence with publishers, academics and lib[...]academic studies and research at the universities of Melbourne, Sydney and Cambridge;
major works incl[...]ppings,
commissions and contracts; a small number of sketches and papers for Cambridge University Foot[...]e and film; correspondence and papers relating to
Australia regarding visits, media, politics and family; aud[...]including teaching literature at the universities of
Warwick , Tulsa and Newnham College, Cambridge; r[...]men and literature and women artists;
the records of Stump Cross Books; honours and awards; boo[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives



Control records:

Box list[...]ntary information about the content and/or
format of the items contained in each box/unit and the curr[...]aken more detailed
information about the contents of the archive (series and item descriptions) will b[...]rs are referred to in the scope and content notes of the attached box list.
Drawer numbers assigned by the creator at the previous location of the archive have been recorded but
are not includ[...]mation about the previous (creator's) arrangement of the
archive will be made available as a result of further processing and description of the archive.
Creator's catalogue of parts of the archive

The creator's catalogue completed by Greer around 1997 (attached) describes in some detail many of
Greer's works and selected correspondence. It is[...]year and then into drawers indicating the
nature of the work or correspondence. For example: author, academic, journalism, Australia etc. This
cannot be used as a finding aid to the archive as it does not indicate the location of described items in
the archive. It also does not[...]catalogue does not include the very large series of general
correspondence which is arranged alphabet[...]r digital
series, photographs, or personal papers of an administrative nature.

Index to general corre[...]ly undergoing
conservation treatment. See box 401 of attached box list.

Greer' s television and radio performances:

A compendium of Greer 's television and radio performances is a v[...]rary works and also serves as guide to the series of audio visual recordings (on video, CD and
DVD formats) of these works collected by Greer from mainly third party producers. See box 402 of
attached box list. A version of this list annotated by the audio visual archivist[...]).

Digital media index:

There is a partial list of contents of some digital files stored on CDs, but this list is not a comprehensive
list of the contents of digital files stored on all digital removable media. See box 448 of attached box list.
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives

Collection Category Cu[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

To request access to records on the list below via the University of Melbourne Archives
Reading Room, quote the Unit/B[...]: Restricted.
.0005 Includes: Arts
organisations, Australia
(contains photograph of
Greer with Prince
Charles).

Greer Unit 6 2014.0038.0000 Australia Part 2 Access: Restricted.
Greer Unit 7 20[...]
[...]d
0023

2014.0038.0000 Conn-
0024

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Restrict[...]s: Restricted.
Includes Gay Clifford and
her book of poetry edited
by Greer.

Access: Restricted.
Includes typescript of
Gay Clifford's poetry.
Access: Restricted.[...]
[...].0000
.0036

2014.0038.0000
.0037

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: R[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]London,
London Rape Crisis
Centre, London Review
of Books.

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 ee PT ue Restricted.
62 .0062 ST iaaes London A-K.

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 _ L-Z Access:[...]
[...].0079

2014.0038.0000
.0080

Ora-

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Restrict[...]S.

Access: Restricted.
Includes National Council
of Women, National
Gallery, National
Museum of Liverpool,
National Portrait Gallery
and N[...]
[...]4.0038.0000 Swallow, Richard
0101

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Descriptio[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]Universities E- Access: Restricted.

University of Access: Restricted.
Melbourne
University of Warwick Access: Restricted.

Vann- Access:[...]
[...]e [Cambridge];
Charter 88; Actors's
equity; House of
Lords; Institute of
English Studies; judge
competitions

Judge compet[...]on; Perdita
project;
Shakespeare's Globe;
Society of Authors; St
Andrews University
St Edmunds Hall
Ox[...]Correspondence with
publishers UK

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Descriptio[...]
[...]ondence with
publishers US
Canada

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Access: Open. OUP;
Palladin UK; Pan;
Penguin Australia;
Penguin UK; Picador;
Rosetta Books; Secker
and W[...]n
Random House New
Zealand; The Boy
Thames Hudson Australia
promotion;

Access: Open. Mad
Woman Atlant[...]
[...]0038.0000
0149

Date Range

Publishers Europe
and Australia

Publishers Europe
and Asia

Accounts 2007
Accoun[...]08/04-29/05/05

Print 01/04-11/04

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: O[...]
[...]10/93-06-95

Print 01/91-10/12/93

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open. Ar[...]Hesperus Press The Way
We Were (cancelled),
Diary of a Madman,
Zastrozzi, My Secret
Book Petrar[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]Lecture
notes English
literature

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open.
Contribution of content by
Germaine Greer to online
outlets

Acce[...]arwick
University 1970s-1980s;
Women's Liberation
Australia; Westbourne
Terrace; mainly
1970s-1980s.[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]y, John
Webster, Johnson,
Jonson, Child's Version
of Everyman by Greer for
Marrickville Girls' High
19[...]ke, Lyly,
Middleton, Milton, Nashe,
Plato, Poetry of Protest
1969-1970, Poetry of
Statement, Renaissance
Epic, Henry Handel
Richard[...]hesis
Notes 1962-1963; MA
Thesis, The
Development of
Byron's Satiric Mode,
1962.





20
[...]revision TFE and
Italian edition; 1971
including Australia,
press

Lysistrita; 1971

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]64;
1965; 1965 research;
Access: Open.
Importance of Love's
Labours Lost, 1965; 1966
Access: Open.
Shakespeare's early
comedies; the ethic of
love and marriage,
1965-1966; 1967
academic; PhD[...]Oz
Magazine Greer on
cover; Notebook with
notices of sales etc.
[Warwick c. 1969]
Access: Open. Diary[...]visionary work
chapter TFE); 1971;
Bompiana 1971;
Australia 1971; Press
files 1971; 1971
(television f[...]
[...]976

Obstacle Race

Obstacle Race

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]s and
players 1972; 1972
letters B

Access: Open. Australia
1972, Press 1972; Diary
1973, Pianelli 1973-1994,[...]73; Women and
Creativity; Women's
Health Service; Australia
1973; Effe Magazine; The
Women's Western Film
Proposal; 1974 diary;
Australia 1974; Federico
Fellini; Diary 1975; Press
The Bah[...]and 1977
diaries

Access: Part restricted .
Press Australia 1975;
Press UK 1975;
Notebook; Miscellaneous
notebook; Australia 1975;
Press UK 1976; Long
letter to a short love
1976; Canada 1976; US
1976, Australia 1976,
Cambridge gardens
1977; Clippings 19[...]
[...]38.0000
228 0228

Sex and Destiny

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]stacle Race 1976;
Obstacle Race;
Notebooks; Proof of list
of illustrations 1978;
Obstacle Race; Obstacle
Race[...]diary; Discriminating
Guide (food reviews
Italy); Australia 1979; a
new introduction to TFE
1980; Observer
Ga[...](1,2,3);

Access: Open. Press US
1979; In search of
Women Artists 1979;
Press UK 1980;
Correspondence[...]tacle
Race 1980; 1981 diary;
Press UK 1979; Press
Australia 1979; Love is
the Law 1981.

Access: Open.[...]
[...]d Destiny

Sex and Destiny

Tulsa

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]RAWER 1983 diary; A
Child is born; the
importance of fertility; the
curse of sterlility; chastity;
polymorphis P.

Access: Ope[...]1983
succesful candidates,
Tulsa bursaries 1983 A-K





24
[...]4.0038.0000
0237

2014.0038.0000
.0238

The story of human
reproduction
[unpublished]

The story of human
reproduction
[unpublished]
chapters and
Sha[...]Shakespeare
Pastmasters
1979-1986

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Access: Open. The story
of human reproduction
(1,2) HR 1983, 1981;
chapter 1[...]15 the mothers
Access: Open. Chapter
16 the fate of the treated
menopause; chapter 17
have we[...]
[...]Daddy
correspondence

The Change

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]ed
files [Shakespeare and
Ethiopia drawer], Press
Australia 1987; Mad
Woman's Underclothes
clippings 1986, MW[...]and
drafts, MWU draft,
Shakespeare reviews,
Press Australia 1986,
MWU reviews

Access: Open. Daddy -
reviews;[...]dy
marked up draft; Daddy
India; Daddy publicity;
Australia 1987-1988;
RAF (RAAF); Daddy Eire;
Daddy America;[...]Ireland (including photo
negatives); Daddy South
Australia; Daddy
prospectus; Daddy
Queensland; Daddy[...]
[...]nge

7 _

— oe
_

Warwick 1997-

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open. Th[...]nts; The
Change legal case
Access: Open. 2 copies
of the book annotated;
The Change copy of
page proofs (1,2,3)
Access: Open. The
Change partial typescript;
The Change proof; The
Change drafts of single
chapters.

Access: Part restricted.
Newnha[...], Wages;
Warwick student files ;
Centre for Study of the
Renaissance; Warwick
Department of English
and Comparative
Studies; Warwick Course
n[...]lture;
Rochester lecture; WSN
conference; the MSS of
Anne Finch, Countess of
Winchilsea; Warwick
inaugural lecture 1998[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]rative cultural
studies; Warwick Centre
for Study of Women and
Gender (CSWG);
Warwick appointme[...]
[...]0259 proofs; The Boy -
Aristo, Tasso etc.,
Ages of Man, Angels

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open. Wh[...]man files.

Access: Open.
Shakespeare's Wife (out
of sequence); Quarterly
Essay White Fella Jump
Up (1[...]: Open.
Gardeners Poems: A-B,
C-D, E-F, G-H, I-J, K-L,
M-N, P-O, Q-R, S-T, U-W
Access: Open.
S[...]
[...]00
0264

Date Range

; 7
-

; '
-

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open.
An[...]list, Kourois,
Leander, Love is a boy,
Castration of Cupid.
Access: Open. Passive
love objects,[...]
[...]Date Range

7 _

-

| -

Various

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open. Th[...]logy including
correspondence with
Frank Kermode, Australia
1989, 1990, 1998, Peter
Burke (includes
facsimiles), Pianelli 1990,
Australia 1988, Growing
Australian plants
newsletters; Top of filing
cabinets hutch: 3 copy
books notes on Mari[...]x
hunting correspondence,
Offstage Mob, The Story
of Human Reroduction,
Christopher Logue, Notes
for F[...]ilm
Database search for
Greer, Cambridge
teaching of English to
challenge; miscellaneous
notes; Dido t[...]ardeners an outline,
Lysistrita drafts; The
Story of Human
Reproduction 1975; TFE
phone in 1971[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]not collected as a
set is held in the
University of Melbourne
Library.

Access: Closed.
Ephemeral pub[...]ich was
not collected as a set
held in University of
Melbourne Library].
Access: Part restricted.
Cont[...]Germaine Greer Age 9.

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Australia Family Access: Part restricted.

277 .0277 Barry Greer, Australia
1982, Australia
Septebmer 1999, ER
Greer, Jane Burke (1-3)

Acces[...]ood

Access: Open. Includes
passports, University of
Melbourne Library book,





32
[...]Unit/Box Item Number

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Australia and family
278 0278

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Cave Creek
279 .0279

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Australia
280 .0280

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Cambridge
28[...]2014.0038.0000 Cambridge
282 0282

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]correspondence including
facsimiles, R.V. Short;
Australia maps,
Reconciliation, Aboriginal
Art

Acce[...]
[...]p-shod Sybils;
Katherine Philips?

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]. Katherine
Philips; Slip-shod Sypbils;
Rewriting of Katherine
Philips; Rochester's
neice; Heil[...]
[...]Health;
289 0289 Teaching Newnham

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Descriptio[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]e
Prose, Teaching Satire,
Teaching Sonnet, Stream
of Consciousness,
Stanza, Translation,
Poetry 1823,[...]d Juliet,
Shakespeare
introductory, Two
Gentlemen of Verona,
Comedy of Errors, Tokyo,
Love's Labours Lost,
Venus and Ado[...]eaching and Juliet, Anthony and
Cleopatra, Taming of the
Shrew, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Merchant
of Venice, Othello, Early
Comedies

Greer Uni[...]
[...]Literature

Women and
Literature

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]raphy; work
timetables for Kissing the
Rod, draft of intro Kissing
the Rod (handwritten
Greer),[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]negatives.

Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Photographs of Access: Closed. Prints
393 0393 Germaine G[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item Number[...]osed. 1 folder
negatives 1 folder slides
(Western Australia);
updated index to AV
collection (a digital copy
of this index is available
online - see Serie[...]
[...]Date Range

- -

/ -

Index cards

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039.
Women Painters
England, A-D, E-[...]sts from
drawer 43.

Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039. Initial
research for women and[...]aris from Drawer 42.
Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039.
Research notes for The
C[...]
[...]2014.0038.0000 Index cards
.0408

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039.
Research notes for the
Change f[...]from drawer 42 H-V.
Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039. Sex
and Destiny research[...]
[...]2014.0038.0000 Index cards
.0409

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039.
References for PhD
thesis drawe[...]or Shakespeare's
life from card box; The
Ideology of Love and
Marriage in the Sixteenth
Century from Drawer 42;
More PhD research
ideology of love and
marriage from drawer 42;
Further[...]
[...]x Cards
0411

2014.0038.0000
0412

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039. Early
research for The Female
E[...]TFE
from Drawer 42;
Annotations to edition
works of Anne Finch from
drawer 41; Index to
translations of psalsms
for lectures from Drawer
41; Further refe[...]s for Daddy
from Drawer 39;
Materials for a study of
the iconography of the
armoured saint from
drawer 39; Women
Painters from Drawer 39;
Access: Open. NOTE:
This box of index cards
has been removed from
this sequence and
registered as part of
Series 2014.0039. Notes
for the Obstacle Race
int[...]ce smaller
cards.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this se[...]
[...].0000
0416

Date Range

P|
P|

P|

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this se[...]
[...].0000
0420

Date Range

P|
P|

P|

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this se[...]
[...]038.0000
0423

Date Range

P|

P|

The University of Melbourne Archives

Description

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Series
2014.0041.

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this se[...]
[...]038.0000
0433

Title
DVDs and CDs

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]netic
tapes from Office drawer
40. NOTE: This box of
audiovisual material has
been removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to DVDs in
this s[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
RECORDS

Unit/Box Item[...]
[...]cations

White Beech

White Beech

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]Access: Closed .

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0041.
Greer's guide to VHS in
this sequence[...]Part restricted.
Slides from travels e.g.
Western Australia.
Manuscripts relating to
Women in Literatu[...]
[...]erial

Recent material
various

White Beech

Book of Pianelli

Photographs black
and white prints;
degrees and
Certificates

Digital media Imac

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Acce[...]ith her recovery.
Includes photographs
and copies of
correspondence.
Access: Closed.

Access: C[...]
[...]calendars

PhD Thesis

Hard drive

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range

Description

Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0040.
Audiocassettes
containing material
cre[...]ed by Prime Focus.
Access: Closed. NOTE:
This box of audiovisual
material has been
removed from this
sequence and registered
as part of 2014.0040.
Audiocassettes
containing material
cre[...]iews,
talks etc.

Access: Closed. Contains
copies of audiocasette
recordings digitised in UK
before transfer to the
University of Melbourne
Archives.

Access: Closed. Contains
copies of audiocasette
recordings digitised in UK
before transfer to the
University of Melbourne
Archives.

Access: Closed. Third[...]
[...]GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives

RECORDS

Unit/Box

Gre[...]
[...].0001 The Female Eunuch
Editorial

The University of Melbourne Archives

Date Range
1968-1969

Description

Early drafts of intention,
synopsis, and Chapter 2
(Mind) for The[...]additional notes
and clippings, including:
draft of synopsis, 3
foolscap pages,
typescript with
emendations and
additions in Greers hand;
(different) draft of
synopsis, possibly of an
earlier date than the
typescript, 4 foolscap
pages, holograph;
statement of intention
dated 21 April 1969, 2
pages, quarto, h[...]7 July 1969, 13 July
1969, with 14 foolscap
sides of notes on
women's work,
holograph; part of draft of
synopsis, 6 small quarto
pages, faded photocopy
of typescript; notes on
lined paper headed TFE
with[...]’ chapter, 1
page, foolscap,
holograph; portion of
foolscap pad with notes
in different pens for
var[...]18 pages; summary, 12
A4 pages, typescript;
draft of second chapter
on mind, untitled, 76 A4
pa[...]
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Unit/Box Item Number[...]Female Eunuch 1969-1969
first draft

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Description

poetry, English, French
and Italian, 2 A4 pages.
The order of documents
within the file may not
represent origi[...]order as
the order does not reflect
Greer's list of documents
on this topic and date
compiled before1998. A
carbon typescript partial
draft of The Female
Eunuch was transferred
to a new file ([...]y
have been added at a
later date.

Partial draft of The
Female Eunuch, carbon
typescript on pumpkin
c[...]two
(incomplete pages 2-75).
For a complete draft of
chapter two (pages 1-76)
see 2014.0038.0001.
Also includes fragments
of other chapter drafts
including employment[...]

TXT

[...]The University of Melbourne Archives[...]minist and conservationist was born in Melbourne,
Australia on January 29, 1939. She was educated at Star of the Sea College, Gardenvale, studied
English and French literature and language at the University of Melbourne, (BA Hons) and graduated
MA (Hons I) from the University of Sydney with a thesis on Byron 's satiric verse, a[...]963-1964). Greer earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge on Shakespeare 's
Early Comedies and was appointed Lecturer at the University of Warwick (1967-1972). Greer was one
of the first women appointed full members of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and[...]on women 's lives and
selves in the wider context of the liberation movements of that time. It created a shock wave of
recognition in women around the world, became an international bestseller and a landmark in the
history of the women's movement and was reprinted and widely[...]career as an author and was followed by a series of popular and academic books including: The
Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work 1979 , Sex and Destiny: The Politics
of Human Fertility 1984, Shakespeare 1986, The Madwo[...]sm 1964-
1985 1986, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Womens Verse, coedited 1988,
Daddy we hardly knew you (1989), The Uncollected Verse of Aphra Behn (Ed.) 1989, The Change:
Women Ageing and the Menopause 1991, The Collected Works of Katherine Philips: The Matchless
Orinda (vol. III[...]tion and
the Women Poet 1995, The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton (ed. with S. Hastings) 1997, The
Whole Woman 1999, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1999, 101 Poems by 101 Women (ed.) 2001[...]te Beech
2013. Greer is in addition the publisher of several volumes of seventeenth century women 's writing
under the imprint Stump Cross Books.
Greer taught at the Universities of Tulsa (1979-1983) and Warwick (c. 1989-2003). She is the
president of the invertebrate charity Buglife and the founder of Friends of Gondwana Rainforest charity
which manages the Cav[...]In 2013
Greer sold her archive to the University of Melbourne, with proceeds to benefit Friends of Gondwana.
Greer is the recipient of numerous scholarships, honours and awards.

Source: Whos Who in Australia.

Date Range of 1949-2009
Collection/Series[...]
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Size/Extent[...]t restricted
Access Conditions

Scope and Content of Collection/Series

The Germaine Greer Archive currently fills over 476 units (occupying over 80m of shelf space) mainly
documenting the period 1959-2009 and is still in the process of being created; with future deposits scheduled. It[...]outgoing correspondence including a large series of general correspondence and
smaller sets of correspondence with publishers, academics and lib[...]academic studies and research at the universities of Melbourne, Sydney and Cambridge;
major works incl[...]ppings,
commissions and contracts; a small number of sketches and papers for Cambridge University Foot[...]e and film; correspondence and papers relating to
Australia regarding visits, media, politics and family; aud[...]including teaching literature at the universities of
Warwick , Tulsa and Newnham College, Cambridge; r[...]men and literature and women artists;
the records of Stump Cross Books; honours and awards; boo[...]
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Control records:
Box list[...]tary information about the content and/or
format of the items contained in each box/unit and the curr[...]ken more detailed
information about the contents of the archive (series and item descriptions) will b[...]rs are referred to in the scope and content notes of the attached box list.
Drawer numbers assigned by the creator at the previous location of the archive have been recorded but
are not inclu[...]ation about the previous (creator 's) arrangement of the
archive will be made available as a result of further processing and description of the archive.
Creator's catalogue of parts of the archive
The creator's catalogue completed by Greer around 1997 (attached) describes in some detail many of
Greer's works and selected correspondence. It is[...]year and then into drawers indicating the
nature of the work or correspondence. For example: author, academic, journalism, Australia etc. This
cannot be used as a finding aid to the archive as it does not indicate the location of described items in
the archive. It also does not[...]catalogue does not include the very large series of general
correspondence which is arranged alphabe[...]digital
series, photographs, or personal papers of an administrative nature.
Index to general corre[...]y undergoing
conservation treatment. See box 401 of attached box list.
Greer' s television and radio performances:
A compendium of Greer 's television and radio performances is a v[...]rary works and also serves as guide to the series of audio visual recordings (on video, CD and
DVD formats) of these works collected by Greer from mainly third party producers. See box 402 of
attached box list. A version of this list annotated by the audio visual archivist[...]).
Digital media index:
There is a partial list of contents of some digital files stored on CDs, but this list is not a comprehensive
list of the contents of digital files stored on all digital removable media. See box 448 of attached box list.[...]
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To request access to records on the list below via the University of Melbourne Archives
Reading Room, quote the Unit/B[...]organisations, Australia
(contains photograph of[...]Charles).
Greer Unit 6 2014.0038.0000 Australia Part 2 Access: Restr[...]Includes Australia, BBC.
Greer Unit 7 2014.0038.0000[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...].0108
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10[...]elbourne
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equity; House of in drawer need
Lords; Institute of alternative packaging[...]subjects.
Society of Authors; St[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]ss: Open. Prime
137 .0137 and Australia Ministers Literar[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Diary of a Madman,[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]of Everyman by Greer for[...]Plato, Poetry of Protest
1969-1970, Poetry of[...]is, The
Development of
Byron's Sati[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]akespeare's Importance of Love's
comedies[...]d comedies; the ethic of
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including Australia, notebook; TFE Italian;[...]Australia 1971; Press[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]1972; Pianelli Access: Open. Australia
221 .0221 1973[...]Health Service; Australia[...]Australia 1974; Federico[...]Press Australia 1975;[...]notebook; Australia 1975;[...]1976, Australia 1976,[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Notebooks; Proof of list
of illustrations 1978;[...]Italy); Australia 1979; a[...]1979; In search of[...]Australia 1979; Love is[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]importance of fertility; the
curse of sterlility; chastity;[...]Tulsa bursaries 1983 A-K[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]scription
Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 The story of human Access: Open. The story[...]reproduction of human reproduction[...]e mothers
Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 The story of human Access: Open. Chapter
2[...]eproduction 16 the fate of the treated[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Underclothes, Australia 1987; Mad
1985-1987[...]Press Australia 1986,[...]Australia 1987-1988;[...]Australia; Daddy[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]245 of the book annotated;
The Change copy of[...]Change drafts of single[...]Centre for Study of the[...]Department of English[...]conference; the MSS of
Anne Finch, Countess of[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]for Study of Women and[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]and Poems for of sequence); Quarterly[...]C-D, E-F, G-H, I-J, K-L,[...]o, Tasso etc.,
Ages of Man, Angels[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Castration of Cupid.
Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 The B[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Frank Kermode, Australia[...]Australia 1988, Growing[...]newsletters; Top of filing[...]of Human Reroduction,[...]teaching of English to[...]Story of Human[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]University of Melbourne[...]held in University of[...]passports, University of[...]rmaine Greer Age 9.
Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Australia Family Access: Part restri[...]Barry Greer, Australia
1982, Australia[...]
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Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Australia Access: Rest[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Rewriting of Katherine[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]of Consciousness,[...]Gentlemen of Verona,
Comedy of Errors, Tokyo,[...]Cleopatra, Taming of the[...]of Venice, Othello, Early[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]Rod, draft of intro Kissing[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]atives.
Greer Unit 2014.0038.0000 Photographs of Access: Closed. Print[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...](Western Australia);[...]of this index is available[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]This box of index cards[...]registered as part of[...]This box of index cards[...]registered as part of[...]This box of index cards[...]registered as part of[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]This box of index cards[...]registered as part of[...]Ideology of Love and[...]ideology of love and[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]This box of index cards[...]registered as part of[...]works of Anne Finch from[...]translations of psalsms[...]Materials for a study of
the iconography of the[...]This box of index cards[...]registered as part of[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0041.[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]material
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]audiocasettes and This box of audiovisual
Mini DV[...]as part of 2014.0040.[...]This box of audiovisual[...]as part of 2014.0040.[...]copies of audiocasette[...]University of Melbourne[...]copies of audiocasette[...]University of Melbourne[...]
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]The Female Eunuch 1968-1969 Early drafts of intention,
Editoria[...]draft of synopsis, 3[...](different) draft of
synopsis, possibly of an[...]statement of intention[...]sides of notes on[...]holograph; part of draft of[...]of typescript; notes on[...]holograph; portion of[...]draft of second chapter[...]
[...]E GREER ARCHIVE AND CONTROL The University of Melbourne Archives
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Unit/Box Item Num[...]The order of documents[...]Greer's list of documents[...]draft of The Female[...]Female Eunuch 1969-1969 Partial draft of The
first draft[...]For a complete draft of[...]of other chapter drafts[...]aper.


End of List[...]

MD

[...]ding useful insight into the physical arrangement of the Archive prior to its transfer to University of Melbourne Archives. Note that unit and con[...]

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