Irene Coates collection - NJSN_AC-040
Coates, Irene, 1925-
Irene Coates collection - NJSN_AC-040 1941 - 2004 - 6.48 linear metres Paper 9 x T1 Box = H)25cm x (W)18cm x (D)40cm standard archive boxes 9 x standard archive boxes - Original order Fonds - Series 1: Irene Coates personal papers; Series 2: Irene Coates research papers. .
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1: Irene Coates personal papers.
This series is comprised of a plethora of material including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, press clippings and articles related to her interests in the arts, conservation, feminism and travel.
Series 2: Irene Coates research papers.
This series is comprised of a variety of material related to research for her published book ‘Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, including photocopied manuscripts, research documents and articles.
ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS
Box 1-5: Series 1
Box 6-9: Series 2
BOX 1
Series 1: Irene Coates personal papers.
1. Bibliography;
2. Family voices from the past – mother / father / husband / self;
3. Letters from Devon, 1941 – 45;
4. Letters from Clive, poems to his daughter, c1951;
5. Compilation of works and items from the past, 1981 – 1982;
6. Irene Coates plays;
7. Drama by Irene Coates - Playbill and Reviews;
8. Irene Coates – 9 Monologues;
9. Irene Coates - Published Articles, 1954 – 1991;
10. Irene Coates – Poetry - published and unpublished;
11. List of published articles associated with Irene Coates;
12. Irene Coates – Newspaper cuttings, reviews;
13. Irene Coates – handouts;
14. Irene Coates papers, letter to archivist. BOX 2
1. ‘Politics by Pressure’ by Patrick Rivers: inscription to Irene Coates from author with notations, 1974;
2. Notebook 22, January to June 1975;
3. Notebook 23, September to October 1975;
4. Notebook 24, October 1975 to February 1976;
5. Notebook 25, February to May 1976;
6. Notebook 27, May to July 1976;
7. Home diary, 1975;
8. Home Diary, 1976;
9. Home Diary, 1977;
10. Home Diary, 1978.
BOX 3
1. Correspondence, 1981;
2. List of Indian Notebooks, 1953 -1956;
3. Preliminary listing of desk Diaries, 1965,1966–1982;
4. Connections 78, notebook, Dec 1977–July 1978 (in manila folder);
5. Connections, blue notebook, August-September 1978;
6. Connections 31, notebook, July–Dec 1977;
7. Connections 33, notebook, September 1978–May 1979;
8. Connections 34, notebook, May–Dec 1979;
9. Connections 35, notebook, January 1980–January 1981.
BOX 4
1. Notebook with hard red cover, 1998;
2. Display book cataloguing sale of Kylie Tennant’s Library, April 1989;
3. Manuscript ‘Claudia’s Crete’;
4. Travel ephemera, c.1977;
5. ‘Isabella’s first song’, 1985;
6. Certificate of the World: Who’s Who of Women, honours list, 1986;
7. Certificate of the World: Who’s Who of Intelligence, vol 7, 1985;
8. ‘Swatantra’ and other theatrical notices;
9. Ecology and Transport systems in EEC and UK, 1966-1979;
10. Typed manuscript: ‘Claudia’s Secret Dreams; working title ‘The Love Drug;
11. Irene Coates Collection list of books donated to Jessie Street Library as a special collection.
BOX 5
1. Notebook No 3, 1943;
2. Notebook No 4, 'Diary for June Gregory', 1944;
3. Notebook No 5;
4. Notebook No 6;
5. Notebook No 9, 1953;
6. Notebook No 10, 1953-4;
7. Notebook No 11, 1954;
8. Notebook No 18, 1960;
9. Notebook No 37, 1981 – 1984;
10 Notebook Unnumbered, 1982;
11. Diary, 1943;
12. Diary 1953;
13. Diary 1954;
14. Diary 1965-66;
15. Diary 1970;
16. Diary 1971;
17. Diary 1972;
18. Diary 1973;
19. Diary 1974;
20. Diary 1979;
21. Diary 1980;
22. Diary 1981;
23. Diary 1982;
24. Diary 1988;
25. Diary 1998.
26. History notes, undated;
27. Exercise book, undated.
BOX 6
Series 2: Irene Coates research papers.
1. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's ‘Autobiography of the Years 1880-1904’;
2. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's ‘Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911’;
3. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's ‘Autobiography of the Years 1911-1918’;
4. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's Autobiography of the years 1913-1939’;
5. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's Autobiography of the Years 1939-1969’;
6. Photocopy of ‘The Unknown Virginia Woolf’ by Roger Poole;
7. Photocopy of ‘The Waves’ Draft 1;
8. Photocopy of ‘The Waves’ Draft 2.
BOX 7
1. Photocopy of ‘All That Summer She Was Mad’ by Stephen Trombley;
2. Photocopy of ‘The Wave’ by Virginia Woolf;
3. Photocopy of ‘Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volume 1’ by Quentin Bell;
4. Photocopy of ‘Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volume 2’ by Quentin Bell;
5. Photocopy of ‘The Wise Virgins’ by Leonard Woolf;
6. Photocopy of ‘Pointz Hall’, the earlier typescript by Virginia Woolf.
BOX 8
1. Photocopy: ‘Pointz Hall – The later typescript, Volume 2’, by Virginia Woolf;
2. Photocopy: ‘Flush – A Biography’ by Virginia Woolf;
3. Photocopy: ‘Both sides of the Curtain’ by Elizabeth Robins;
4. Photocopied Journal Articles;
5. Virginia Woolf 1882 -1941, Seminar paper, 1991;
6. Photocopy: ‘A Letter to a Young Poet and other Hogarth Press letters’ by Virginia Woolf;
7. Photocopy: ‘A Political Biography’ by Duncan Wilson, 1978;
8. Photocopy: ‘Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey – Letters’, edited by Leonard Woolf & James Strachey, 1956;
9. Photocopy: ‘The Letters of Vita Sackville-West’, edited by Louise De Salvo & Mitchell A Liaska, 1992.
BOX 9
1. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, August 1993;
2. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, photocopied photos and bibliography;
3. Research documents, My writings on Virginia and Leonard Woolf, On the SeeSaw, 1989;
4. Research material;
5. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, life lines, chronology, Virginia Woolf houses;
6. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, newspaper articles cuttings and reviews;
7. ‘Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, video sticker and information, sotto website 2000;
8. ‘Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, publicity leaflets;
9. Research duplicates.
PUBLICATION CONDITIONS:
Reproduction rights are owned by Jessie Street National Women's Library. Material may be saved or printed for private research, however, if it is to be used for any other purpose, a ‘Request Permission to Publish’ form should be completed.
RESTRICTIONS ON PHYSICAL ACCESS:
Available for research.
CREATION / PUBLICATION CREDITS NOTE:
Library permission and acknowledgement required for publication.
CREATION / PUBLICATION CREDITS NOTE:
Library permission and acknowledgement required for publication.
BIOGRAPHY
Irene Coates was born in London in 1925. In the 1940s she lived in Cambridge running the Cambridge Drama Centre, then lived in India from 1953-56. Between 1961 and 1981 she wrote 14 plays, many of them professionally produced including by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and some performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
She migrated to Australia with her husband in 1982. Irene settled in the Blue Mountains and received a New South Wales Premier’s Community Service Award for fostering the arts in the area. She was Writer in Residence (Drama) at University of Western Sydney Nepean in 1998. She published four books, including ‘Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf: a case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf’, 1998; ‘Claudia’s India’, 1988; ‘Don’t Panic – Paint!: a woman painting guide’, 1984; and ‘Claudia’s War’, 1983. [https://australianplays.org/playwright/ASC-314 and https://www.brandl.com.au/irene-coates – Accessed 2/12/2019].
Before returning to the UK in 2004, she donated her papers and the books used to research her biography ‘Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf’ to Jessie Street National Women’s Library. This collection is known as the Irene Coates Special Collection.
RESTRICTIONS ON REPRODUCTION
Library permission and acknowledgement is required to copy material for research purposes.
English
Coates, Irene,
Women's writings
Literature - Poetry - Art
Irene Coates collection - NJSN_AC-040 1941 - 2004 - 6.48 linear metres Paper 9 x T1 Box = H)25cm x (W)18cm x (D)40cm standard archive boxes 9 x standard archive boxes - Original order Fonds - Series 1: Irene Coates personal papers; Series 2: Irene Coates research papers. .
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1: Irene Coates personal papers.
This series is comprised of a plethora of material including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, press clippings and articles related to her interests in the arts, conservation, feminism and travel.
Series 2: Irene Coates research papers.
This series is comprised of a variety of material related to research for her published book ‘Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, including photocopied manuscripts, research documents and articles.
ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS
Box 1-5: Series 1
Box 6-9: Series 2
BOX 1
Series 1: Irene Coates personal papers.
1. Bibliography;
2. Family voices from the past – mother / father / husband / self;
3. Letters from Devon, 1941 – 45;
4. Letters from Clive, poems to his daughter, c1951;
5. Compilation of works and items from the past, 1981 – 1982;
6. Irene Coates plays;
7. Drama by Irene Coates - Playbill and Reviews;
8. Irene Coates – 9 Monologues;
9. Irene Coates - Published Articles, 1954 – 1991;
10. Irene Coates – Poetry - published and unpublished;
11. List of published articles associated with Irene Coates;
12. Irene Coates – Newspaper cuttings, reviews;
13. Irene Coates – handouts;
14. Irene Coates papers, letter to archivist. BOX 2
1. ‘Politics by Pressure’ by Patrick Rivers: inscription to Irene Coates from author with notations, 1974;
2. Notebook 22, January to June 1975;
3. Notebook 23, September to October 1975;
4. Notebook 24, October 1975 to February 1976;
5. Notebook 25, February to May 1976;
6. Notebook 27, May to July 1976;
7. Home diary, 1975;
8. Home Diary, 1976;
9. Home Diary, 1977;
10. Home Diary, 1978.
BOX 3
1. Correspondence, 1981;
2. List of Indian Notebooks, 1953 -1956;
3. Preliminary listing of desk Diaries, 1965,1966–1982;
4. Connections 78, notebook, Dec 1977–July 1978 (in manila folder);
5. Connections, blue notebook, August-September 1978;
6. Connections 31, notebook, July–Dec 1977;
7. Connections 33, notebook, September 1978–May 1979;
8. Connections 34, notebook, May–Dec 1979;
9. Connections 35, notebook, January 1980–January 1981.
BOX 4
1. Notebook with hard red cover, 1998;
2. Display book cataloguing sale of Kylie Tennant’s Library, April 1989;
3. Manuscript ‘Claudia’s Crete’;
4. Travel ephemera, c.1977;
5. ‘Isabella’s first song’, 1985;
6. Certificate of the World: Who’s Who of Women, honours list, 1986;
7. Certificate of the World: Who’s Who of Intelligence, vol 7, 1985;
8. ‘Swatantra’ and other theatrical notices;
9. Ecology and Transport systems in EEC and UK, 1966-1979;
10. Typed manuscript: ‘Claudia’s Secret Dreams; working title ‘The Love Drug;
11. Irene Coates Collection list of books donated to Jessie Street Library as a special collection.
BOX 5
1. Notebook No 3, 1943;
2. Notebook No 4, 'Diary for June Gregory', 1944;
3. Notebook No 5;
4. Notebook No 6;
5. Notebook No 9, 1953;
6. Notebook No 10, 1953-4;
7. Notebook No 11, 1954;
8. Notebook No 18, 1960;
9. Notebook No 37, 1981 – 1984;
10 Notebook Unnumbered, 1982;
11. Diary, 1943;
12. Diary 1953;
13. Diary 1954;
14. Diary 1965-66;
15. Diary 1970;
16. Diary 1971;
17. Diary 1972;
18. Diary 1973;
19. Diary 1974;
20. Diary 1979;
21. Diary 1980;
22. Diary 1981;
23. Diary 1982;
24. Diary 1988;
25. Diary 1998.
26. History notes, undated;
27. Exercise book, undated.
BOX 6
Series 2: Irene Coates research papers.
1. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's ‘Autobiography of the Years 1880-1904’;
2. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's ‘Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911’;
3. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's ‘Autobiography of the Years 1911-1918’;
4. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's Autobiography of the years 1913-1939’;
5. Photocopy of Leonard Woolf's Autobiography of the Years 1939-1969’;
6. Photocopy of ‘The Unknown Virginia Woolf’ by Roger Poole;
7. Photocopy of ‘The Waves’ Draft 1;
8. Photocopy of ‘The Waves’ Draft 2.
BOX 7
1. Photocopy of ‘All That Summer She Was Mad’ by Stephen Trombley;
2. Photocopy of ‘The Wave’ by Virginia Woolf;
3. Photocopy of ‘Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volume 1’ by Quentin Bell;
4. Photocopy of ‘Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volume 2’ by Quentin Bell;
5. Photocopy of ‘The Wise Virgins’ by Leonard Woolf;
6. Photocopy of ‘Pointz Hall’, the earlier typescript by Virginia Woolf.
BOX 8
1. Photocopy: ‘Pointz Hall – The later typescript, Volume 2’, by Virginia Woolf;
2. Photocopy: ‘Flush – A Biography’ by Virginia Woolf;
3. Photocopy: ‘Both sides of the Curtain’ by Elizabeth Robins;
4. Photocopied Journal Articles;
5. Virginia Woolf 1882 -1941, Seminar paper, 1991;
6. Photocopy: ‘A Letter to a Young Poet and other Hogarth Press letters’ by Virginia Woolf;
7. Photocopy: ‘A Political Biography’ by Duncan Wilson, 1978;
8. Photocopy: ‘Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey – Letters’, edited by Leonard Woolf & James Strachey, 1956;
9. Photocopy: ‘The Letters of Vita Sackville-West’, edited by Louise De Salvo & Mitchell A Liaska, 1992.
BOX 9
1. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, August 1993;
2. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, photocopied photos and bibliography;
3. Research documents, My writings on Virginia and Leonard Woolf, On the SeeSaw, 1989;
4. Research material;
5. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, life lines, chronology, Virginia Woolf houses;
6. Research documents, Virginia Woolf, newspaper articles cuttings and reviews;
7. ‘Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, video sticker and information, sotto website 2000;
8. ‘Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, publicity leaflets;
9. Research duplicates.
PUBLICATION CONDITIONS:
Reproduction rights are owned by Jessie Street National Women's Library. Material may be saved or printed for private research, however, if it is to be used for any other purpose, a ‘Request Permission to Publish’ form should be completed.
RESTRICTIONS ON PHYSICAL ACCESS:
Available for research.
CREATION / PUBLICATION CREDITS NOTE:
Library permission and acknowledgement required for publication.
CREATION / PUBLICATION CREDITS NOTE:
Library permission and acknowledgement required for publication.
BIOGRAPHY
Irene Coates was born in London in 1925. In the 1940s she lived in Cambridge running the Cambridge Drama Centre, then lived in India from 1953-56. Between 1961 and 1981 she wrote 14 plays, many of them professionally produced including by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and some performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
She migrated to Australia with her husband in 1982. Irene settled in the Blue Mountains and received a New South Wales Premier’s Community Service Award for fostering the arts in the area. She was Writer in Residence (Drama) at University of Western Sydney Nepean in 1998. She published four books, including ‘Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf: a case for the sanity of Virginia Woolf’, 1998; ‘Claudia’s India’, 1988; ‘Don’t Panic – Paint!: a woman painting guide’, 1984; and ‘Claudia’s War’, 1983. [https://australianplays.org/playwright/ASC-314 and https://www.brandl.com.au/irene-coates – Accessed 2/12/2019].
Before returning to the UK in 2004, she donated her papers and the books used to research her biography ‘Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf’ to Jessie Street National Women’s Library. This collection is known as the Irene Coates Special Collection.
RESTRICTIONS ON REPRODUCTION
Library permission and acknowledgement is required to copy material for research purposes.
English
Coates, Irene,
Women's writings
Literature - Poetry - Art
