Agency:
Hilda Bridges
Agency Number:
Start Date:
19 Oct 1881
End Date:
11 Sep 1971
Description:
Hilda Bridges (1881-1971) was a well known writer of Tasmanian fiction, although her reputation was overshadowed by her brother Roy. Her sixteen novels and many short stories are mostly contemporary adventures, romances and children's stories. After Roy's death in 1952 she gave a substantial collection of his papers, and some of her own, to the University of Tasmania, and another smaller collection to Dr W.E.L.H. Crowther. In the 1960s she donated a collection of her own and Roy's published books to the State Library.
Information Sources:
D.H. Borchardt and B. Tilley, The Roy Bridges Collection in the University of Tasmania (1956); Australian Dictionary of Biography (entry under Roy Bridges); John Arnold and John Hay, eds, The Bibliography of Australian Literature: A-E (2001).
Functions Performed:
Arts and culture
Related Agencies:
| Royal Tasman (Roy) Bridges (NG3117) | 23 Mar 1885 | 14 Feb 1952 |
Series Created By Agency:
| CRO101 Hilda Bridges Literary Manuscripts | 01 Jan 1900 | 01 Jan 1966 |
| CRO100 Hilda Bridges Correspondence | 01 Feb 1919 | 29 May 1966 |
| NS7441 Letters from Publishers and Readers | 01 Jan 1920 | 01 Jan 1970 |
| NS1662 Typescript of a Novel by Hilda Bridges | 01 Jan 1940 | 31 Dec 1959 |