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The Corona
typewriter Colleen McCullough used to write Tim (published 1974) and The Thorn Birds (published 1977)
grey powder-coated and chromed metal, bearing a mailing label inscribed 'BRITTAIN / 22 CHURCH STREET / FEN DITTON / CAMBRIDGE C85 BSU / ENGLAND'
46 cm wide, 21 cm high, 45 cm deep
LITERATURE
McCullough, Colleen,
Colleen McCullough: Life Without the Boring Bits, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2011, illustrated front cover
OTHER NOTES
Colleen McCullough owned a number of typewriters over her career, but none as iconic as this example, as it was with this particular typewriter that she wrote the two seminal novels of her career. The reasons for McCullough's preference for a typewriter over a computer are many and varied, but could include her belonging to a generation prior to the common availability of personal computers, familiarity, habit and the satisfying tactile experience of writing with a typewriter - for Colleen McCullough, writing was a pleasure, all elements were to be enjoyed, from the selection of typewriter through to the choice of specific paper. It could also be associated with her desire to control all elements of the writing process - "I refuse to trust [computers] with my sweat, my blood or my tears ... it's too easy to lose what's in there ..." (1)
The mailing label affixed to the front of the typewriter is inscribed with the address of a friend with whom Colleen McCullough stayed when she returned to Britain following the publication of
The Thorn Birds to begin research for her next novel,
An Indecent Obsession.
(1) McCullough, Colleen,
Colleen McCullough: Life Without the Boring Bits, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2011, p. 191