- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH003615
Hilda Abbott interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
- Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Reference ORAL TRC 1/527
- Date Range 27-Mar-71 - 27-Mar-71
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Description
1 sound tape reel (ca. 57 min.) Abbott speaks of her childhood, living in different homesteads; learning secretarial skills; working in Cairo during World War I; suffering from tenosynovitis; her return to Australia; settling in the Northern Territory; her husband’s work as the Administrator of the Northern Territory; writing about the Australian Aborigines and about her experiences.
- Access Open access for research & personal copies; permission of literary executor for public use.
- Finding Aid Timed summary (4 p.) and transcript available (23 p.)