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Nicholson, Joyce Thorpe (1919 - )

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Born: 1 June 1919  Northcote, Victoria, Australia

Joyce Nicholson was born in Melbourne, the daughter of publisher D.W. Thorpe. She was educated at Methodist Ladies College before completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, where she was vice-president of the Student Representative Council. She has been active in the women's movement, involved in early years with the Women's Electoral Lobby (W.E.L.) and Sisters Publishing Ltd. She was Managing Director, and later sole owner, of D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd from 1968 until 1987, when the firm was sold. She is the author of over 25 books, many of them written for children, others dealing with women's issues.


Career Highlights
Alternative Names:
  • Ace High (pseudonym)
  • Solo (pseudonym)
  • Thorpe, Joyce (maiden name)

Chronology
1935 - 1946

Junior typist, secretary and sub-editor at D W Thorpe Pty Ltd (Melbourne)

1940

Vice-president of the Student Representative Council at the University of Melbourne

1943

Married George Harvey Nicholson (dec.1980), they had 4 children

1947 - 1968

Writer and part-time work at D W Thorpe Pty Ltd (Melbourne)

1957

Organizer of the first Children's Book Week in Victoria

1968 - 1980

Managing director and proprietor of D W Thorpe Pty Ltd (Melbourne), and editor, Australian Bookseller and Australian Books in Print

1971 - 1974

Editor of Newsletter for the Royal Historical Society of Victoria

1972 - 1983

Secretary and executive member of the Australian Library Promotion Council

1974

Founding member of the National Book Council

1979 - 1980

Co-founder and director of Sisters Publishing Ltd

1987 - 1992

Chief Executive Officer of Jayen Press

1993

Chief Executive Officer of Courtyard Press

1998

Recipient of the Lloyd O'Neil Award for services to the Book Industry

 
Sources used to compile this entry: Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, pps 335-336, De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret (eds), Who's who in Australia 2003, 39 edn, Crown Content, North Melbourne, 2003, p. 1514 and historical note from the University of Melbourne Archives database.
 
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Books

  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, How to play auction bridge, G.W. Green & Sons, [Melbourne], [193-], 23 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, How to play solo : complete guide to solo (solo whist), auction solo, three-handed solo, hints on bidding and play, scoring, illustrated hands, with special chapter for beginners who have never played cards of any kind, Gordon and Gotch (Wholesale distributors), Melbourne, [1945?], 64 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, You can run a library, Australian Red Cross Society, [Melbourne?], 1948, 56 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, Our first overlander, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1956, 128 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, Kerri and Honey, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1962, 32 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, A mortar-board for Priscilla, Children's Library Guild of Australia, Melbourne, 1963, 121 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, Why women lose at bridge, V. Gollancz in association with P. Crawley, London, 1985, 95 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919-, Man against mutiny : the story of Vice-Admiral Bligh, Lutterworth Press, London, c1961, 95 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- (compiled by ), Successful parties and social evenings, Gordon and Gotch [Distributor], Melbourne, [195-?], 64 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and De Lisle, Gordon (photography by), Ringtail the possum, Lansdowne, [Melbourne], 1965, 32 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and Leunig, Mary, 1950- (illustrated by), What society does to girls, Pitman (Australia),, Carlton, Vic., 1975, 70 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and Max B. Miller (illustrations by), The little green tractor, Little Books Publishing House, Hawthorn,Vic, [1950]. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and McArdle, Brian (photography by), Sir Charles and the lyrebird, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1966. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and Smith, L. H. (Leonard Hart), 1910- (photography by ), Woop the wombat, Lansdowne, [Melbourne], [1968], 32 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and Smith, L. H. (Leonard Hart), 1910-, illus., Yap the penguin, Lansdowne, [Melbourne], 1967, 32 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholson, Joyce, 1919- and Thorpe, Daniel (Daniel Wrixon), 1889-1976., A life of books : the story of D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd., 1921-1987, Courtyard Press, Middle Park, Vic., 2000, 326 pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Gorman, Lyn, 'A life in books', Australian Library Journal, vol. 49, no. 4, 2000, pp. 374-376. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Nicholson, Joyce, ''The Women's Electoral Lobby and Women's Employment: Strategies and Outcomes', MA, Women's Studies, History, The University of Melbourne', MA thesis, The University of Melbourne, 1991, 118 pp. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

See also

  • De Micheli, Catherine and Herd, Margaret (eds), Who's who in Australia 2003, 39 edn, Crown Content, North Melbourne, 2003, 2201 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Walker, Nick, 'A life of books : the story of D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd., 1921-1987', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 71, no. 2, 2000, pp. 129-131. [ Details... ]

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