Trover Note and Summary : 'Typescript manuscript of 249 numbered pages with manuscript corrections, bound together with cardboard covers and a string binding. Pasted to the inside front cover is a manuscript 'Note to a possible Publisher’s reader'. This Note, which is initialled NL, tells of how the manuscript has been so disarranged in various re-writings that the pages are not numbered consecutively. It also states: 'The servant girl in this novel named Dora was originally ...
'Inherited by Jane Glad (nee Lindsay), daughter of Norman Lindsay. Upon her death, it passed into the possession of Jane Glad's daughter Helen. Jane’s will stipulated that her estate was not to be sold until after the death of long-time carer and companion Eleanor Witcombe AM (20 September 1923 – 21 October 2018).'
'Norman Lindsay’s novel for children, The Magic Pudding, turned 100 last year and was widely celebrated. But the Lindsay family’s auction of three previously unseen manuscripts could help us gain a greater understanding of his novels for adults.' (Introduction)
'Norman Lindsay’s novel for children, The Magic Pudding, turned 100 last year and was widely celebrated. But the Lindsay family’s auction of three previously unseen manuscripts could help us gain a greater understanding of his novels for adults.' (Introduction)