Madeleine (37 page)

56
Madeleine quoted in Christopher Henning, ‘The Essence of Being a Writer',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 20 September 1997.

57
MSJ, letter to JMcC, 2 May 1991.

58
Neil Norman, ‘How the Booker Saved Me from the Job Centre', 1997.

Chapter 16: THE WOMEN IN BLACK

1
FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.

2
Jonette McDonnell (Jarvis), interview with HT, 26 June 2011.

3
Robert McPherson, interview with HT, 4 May 2011.

4
Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interviews with HT, 15 and 21 February 2011.

5
Madeleine St John,
The Women in Black
, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2009.

6
MSJ Tapes, March 2004.

7
James ‘Jai Narain' Hughes, interview with HT, 16 May 2011.

8
Esther Whitby, interview with HT, 17 May 2011.

9
MSJ, letter to JMcC, 19 March 1992.

10
Robert McPherson, interview with HT, 4 May 2011.

11
Ibid
.

12
Jane Holdsworth, interview with HT, 16 May 2011.

13
Stephen Mitchell, interview with HT, 31 August 2011.

14
Andre Deutsch, Advance Information Sheet, No 562, 1993.

15
MSJ, letter to JMcC, 15 March 1993.

16
Ibid
.

17
Times Literary Supplement
, 5 March 1993.

18
MSJ, letter to JMcC, 15 March 1993.

19
Robert McPherson, interview with HT, 4 May 2011.

20
Patrick St John, interview with HT, 30 August 2011.

Chapter 17: DEAR TED

1
TSJ, letter to Ron and Josette Storer, 9 May 1993.

2
TSJ Will, 2 October 1993.

3
Esther Whitby, interview with HT, 17 May 2011.

4
MSJ, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 4 October 1994.

5
MSJ, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 15 December 1994.

6
Robert McPherson, interview with HT, 4 May 2012.

7
Ed St John, interview with HT, 4 July 2011.

8
Patrick St John, interview with HT, 30 August 2011.

9
FH, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.

10
MSJ, letter to TSJ, 21 October 1994.

11
Michael Kirby, eulogy delivered in St Luke's Anglican Church, Mosman, 3 November 1994.

12
Tony Stephens, ‘They Came to Honour Edward St John: A Pilgrim of the Power of One',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 4 November 1994, p. 2.

13
Hansard, House of Representatives, 7 November 1994, pp. 2680–81.

14
Don Dobie, letter to MSJ, 12 July 1995.

15
MSJ, letter to Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), 29 December 1994.

Chapter 18: A MOMENT IN THE SUNSHINE

1
Bruce Beresford, introduction to
The Women in Black
, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2009.

2
FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.

3
Clive James, email to HT, 22 February 2011.

4
MSJ quoted in Christopher Henning, ‘The Essence of Being a Writer',
Sydney
Morning Herald
, 20 September 1997.

5
Bruce Beresford, interview with HT, 11 February 2012.

6
CSJ, interview with HT, 22 September 2012.

7
Jonette McDonnell (Jarvis) and Siobhan McDonnell, interview with HT, 26 June 2011.

8
Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), interview with HT, 13 August 2011.

9
Colleen Chesterman (Olliffe), interview with HT, February 2011.

10
MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 31 July 1995.

11
Ibid
.

12
MSJ, quoted in Christopher Henning, ‘The Essence of Being a Writer',
Sydney
Morning Herald
, 20 September 1997.

13
MSJ, letter to JMcC, 26 September 1993.

14
JMcC, email to HT, 18 November 2012.

15
Sarah Lutyens, letter to Tom Rosenthal, 28 March 1995.

16
Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston,
‘
Mairzy Doats', composed in 1943.

17
Tom Rosenthal, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 24 March 1995.

18
Carole Welch, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 20 March 1995.

19
Fanny Blake, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 12 April 1995.

20
Jonathan Burnham, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 27 March 1995.

21
Joanna Goldsworthy, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 28 March 1995.

22
Christopher Potter, fax to Sarah Lutyens, 30 March 1995.

23
FB, interview with HT, 16 October 2011.

24
Christopher Potter, fax to Sarah Lutyens, 30 March 1995.

25
MSJ, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 16 May 1995.

26
‘Jesus Bids Us Shine', words by Susan Bogert Warner, music by Edwin Othello Excell, first published in the children's magazine,
The Little Corporal
, in 1868.

27
Peter Craven, ‘Light as Air, and Deep as the Darkening Sky',
Weekend Australian
, 27 November 2010, p. 22.

28
MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 2 March 1996.

29
Madeleine St John,
A Pure Clear Light
, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010.

30
Sarah Lutyens, interview with HT, 7 December 2011.

31
MSJ Tapes, March 2004. Colette rejects this comment.

32
MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 2 March 1996.

33
Ibid
.

34
Robert McPherson, interview with HT, 4 May 2011.

35
MSJ, letter to Antony Minchin, 2 March 1996.

36
Alex Hill, interview with HT, May 2011.

37
Ibid
.

38
Ibid
.

39
MSJ, letter to Annabel Ritchie (Minchin), 6 May 1997.

40
CT, email to HT, 14 November 2012. Buffy quote from
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
, season five, episode 22, 22 May 2001.

41
MSJ, letter to JMcC, 14 November 1995.

42
Peta Worth, interview with HT, 10 October 2011.

43
Jane Holdsworth, interview with HT, 16 May 2011.

Chapter 19: THE ESSENCE AND THE BOOKER

1
Christopher Potter, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.

2
Sarah Lutyens, interview with HT, 7 December 2011.

3
Ibid
.

4
Felicity Rubinstein, letter to Barry Humphries, 9 May 1997.

5
MSJ, postcard to Felicity Rubinstein, May 1997.

6
Madeleine St John,
The Essence of the Thing
, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2009.

7
MSJ disagreed it was autobiographical. In Neil Norman, ‘How the Booker Saved Me from the Job Centre',
Evening Standard
, 14 October 1997, p. 25, Madeleine said the novel owed nothing to her own experience: ‘I am not paying off an old score…I know that there are writers who are heavily autobiographical, like Muriel Spark, but there is no way I could bring off a trick like that.'

8
Christopher Potter, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.

9
Melvyn Bragg in Channel 4 direct telecast of Booker dinner, 1997, Oxford Brookes University archive.

10
Jason Cowley, quoted in ‘Tears, Tiffs and Triumphs',
Guardian,
6 September 2008.

11
Luke Slattery, ‘Mystery Writer',
Australian
, 17 September 1997.

12
CSJ, interview with HT, 24 November 2012.

13
Luke Slattery, ‘Mystery Writer',
Australian
, 17 September 1997.

14
Christopher Henning, ‘Booker Listing Sends Madeleine “a Bit Barmy”',
Sydney
Morning Herald,
17 September 1997.

15
Ed St John, ‘Madeleine St John: a brother's story',
Sydney Morning Herald
, 17 September 1997.

16
Annabel Ritchie (Minchin) to HT, 13 August 2011.

17
Andrew Clark, ‘Essence of St John',
Age,
20 September 1997.

18
MSJ, quoted in Christopher Henning, ‘The Essence of Being a Writer',
Sydney
Morning Herald
, 20 September 1997.

19
MSJ Tapes, March 2004.

20
Emma Cook, ‘Tea Lady, Check-out Girl? No, I'll Stick to Writing',
Independent
on Sunday
, 21 September 1997.

21
Libby Brooks, ‘Stranger than Fiction',
Guardian Weekly
, 5 October 1997.

22
Neil Norman, ‘How the Booker Saved Me from the Job Centre', 1997.

23
Andrew Riemer, ‘Shedding Light on British Prejudices',
Sydney Morning Herald,
27 September 1997, p. 11.

24
Ibid.

25
Ibid
.

26
‘Judging the Booker Prize',
Economist
, 2 October 1997.

27
Gillian Beer, quoted in Jane Cornwell, ‘The Essence of an Expat',
HQ
, November/December 1998.

28
Christopher Potter, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.

29
Ibid
.

30
Gillian Beer in Channel 4 direct telecast of Booker dinner, 1997, Oxford Brookes University archive.

31
Lisa Jardine, ‘The Brit Reaction to the Booker',
Guardian
, October 1997.

32
Jane Holdsworth, interview with HT, 16 May 2011.

33
Jacqueline Bateman, interview with HT, 10 June 2011.

34
CSJ, interview with HT, 22 September 2012.

35
Aaron Lippincott, interview with HT, 22 September 2012.

36
Libby Smith, interview with HT, 5 July 2011.

37
Esther Whitby's unpublished manuscript.

38
CT, email to HT, 14 November 2012.

39
MSJ, letter to Sue Manion (Susie Osmaston), 26 August 1998.

Chapter 20: A SENSE OF BETRAYAL

1
Ed St John, interview with HT, 4 July 2011.

2
VSJ, letter to MSJ, 24 August 1998.

3
VSJ, letter to MSJ, 12 July 1998.

4
Ibid
.

5
MSJ, letter to VSJ, 11 August 1998.

6
VSJ, letter to MSJ, 24 August 1998.

7
Ibid
.

8
Jane Cornwell, ‘The Essence of an Expat',
HQ
, November/December 1998.

9
MSJ, letter to VSJ, 7 January 2003.

10
Jane Cornwell, ‘The Essence of an Expat', 1998.

11
MSJ, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 14 May 1999.

12
Jane Cornwell, ‘The Essence of an Expat', 1998.

13
MSJ, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 14 May 1999.

14
MSJ, letter to VSJ, 7 January 2003.

15
Ibid
.

16
MSJ, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 14 May 1999.

17
Jane Cornwell, email to HT, 6 April 2012.

18
Tress Cocks & Maddox, letter to MSJ, 27 May 1999.

19
MSJ, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 1 June 1999.

20
Tress Cocks & Maddox, letter to VSJ, 21 July 1999.

21
Clayton Utz, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 9 August 1999.

22
ACP Publishing Pty Ltd, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 27 July 1999.

23
MSJ, letter to Tress Cocks & Maddox, 23 August 1999.

Chapter 21: A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE

1
MSJ, quoted in Christopher Henning, ‘The Essence of Being a Writer,'
Sydney
Morning Herald
, 20 September 1997.

2
Kent Carroll, interview with HT, 3 August 2011.

3
Ibid
.

4
Ibid
.

5
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1553–55.

6
‘I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise' was written in 1922 by George Gershwin with lyrics by Bud De Sylva and Ira Gershwin.

7
CT, tribute to MSJ, July 2006.

8
Madeleine St John,
A Stairway to Paradise
, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010.

9
Christopher Potter, interview with HT, 12 May 2011.

10
Ibid
.

11
Sarah Lutyens, fax to Christopher Potter, 30 November 1998.

12
Christopher Potter, fax to Sarah Lutyens, 7 December 1998.

13
Sarah Lutyens, interview with HT, 7 December 2011.

14
Kathy Kettler learnt of the novel and the dedication in a phone call from HT in 2011.

15
Helen Dunmore, ‘Marital Arts Expert,'
The Times
, March 1999.

16
Stephen Amidon, ‘Trying to Be Good in a Naughty World',
Sunday Times
, 1999.

17
David Robson, ‘Under-achieving, Except in Love',
Sunday Telegraph
, 21 March 1999.

18
FB, note to Antony Minchin, 1999.

19
MSJ, note to Christopher Potter, 25 October 1999.

20
Sarah Lutyens, letter to Tiffany Daness at the
Daily Telegraph,
30 April 1999.

21
Sarah Lutyens, interview with HT, 7 December 2011.

22
Ibid
.

23
Angus Towler, letter to Susannah Godman, 15 April 1999.

24
Irena Meldris, letter to Susannah Godman, 25 March 1999.

25
MSJ, letter to Sarah Lutyens, 12 December 2000.

26
Sarah Lutyens, interview with HT, 14 May 2011.

Chapter 22: A TOURIST IN ATHENS

1
Robert Tooley, interview with HT, 10 February 2011.

2
Teresa Attlee (Ahern), interview with HT, 3 May 2011.