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plate decorated by Elizabeth Jolley (front)

Plate decorated by Elizabeth Jolley (back)
Ceramic plate painted by Elizabeth Jolley
Photographer Hans Versluis
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Memorabilia

Postcard featuring Elizabeth Jolley. Australian Society of Authors.

Part of a collection of postcards, issued in the late 1990s, that also featured photographs of: Glenda Adams, Robert Drewe, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville, Dorothy Hewett, Thomas Keneally, Frank Moorhouse, Mudrooroo, Les Murray, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Greeting card featuring Elizabeth Jolley. "Australian Writers." National Library of Australia.

In addition to Jolley, this collection of greeting cards featured photographs of: Marjorie Barnard, Kevin Gilbert, Dorothy Hewitt, A. D. Hope, Antigone Kefala, Frank Moorhouse and Patrick White.

Postcard. "Christmas Conversation on the Fencing Wire." Australian Literary Management.

Card. Showing a draft page from Palomino manuscript, Library Shop, Mitchell Library.

Ceramic plate. Painted by Elizabeth Jolley, showing images of fried eggs and bacon, and donated in aid of Rocky Bay [formerly the Western Australian Society for Crippled Children], Mosman Park, Western Australia. 44 cm (diameter). Painted and donated in the mid nineties. Held in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

The Sibford Story. Dir. and prod. Leslie Baily, with Morland Braithwaite. 16mm film shot circa 1948 but incorporating footage from a 1928 film of the school. 36 min. Held in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

Jolley attended Sibford, a Quaker school near the Cotswold, from September 1934 to August 1940. Many Sibford icons are shown as are a number of the men and women teachers who greatly influenced her.

Student Nurse. Video of a recruitment film meant to attract young women to nursing during wartime Britain. Prod. and dir. Francis Searle. A GB Screen Services Production, in cooperation with the Birmingham United Hospital and Matron, Medical Officers, and Nurses of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Unit, with the advice of the Royal College of Nursing. Approx. date early/mid 1940s. 35 mins. Held in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

The film shows trainee nurses studying and socialising at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. It features Jolley's friends Pat Goode (blonde) as one of the two principal trainees and Norah Harvey as the new trainee arriving by taxi. Jolley (in horn-rimmed glasses) is shown entering a lecture hall and sitting at the front during a lecture.

Untitled. Video tape, with background music, of a home video related to the Jolleys' early years in Australia. Approx. date, early to mid 1960s. 10 mins. Held in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, courtesy of Judy and Professor J. P. O. ("Phil") Silberstein, ret. (Mathematics, University of Western Australia).

This home video opens with scenes of Perth and the Western Australian landscape, which are followed by two sequences showing young UWA staff and their spouses, colleagues of Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley, playing hockey and softball.

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