Author and critic, Greek scholar, weaver. Was active in the music community in Auckland during the 1940s and later, and was a participant in the early Cambridge Music Schools. Music critic for the Listener (1944-1952) and the Auckland Star (1949-1954). Daughter of Alan Mulgan and Marguerita Blomfield. Wife of Rt Hon Sir Alexander Kingcome Turner. See article on her husband in DNZB (Vol 4, 1921-1940, p539-540, T29)
Turner, Dorothea Frances (Dr), 1910-1997
Mulgan, Dorothea Frances, 1910-1997
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Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :Drawings from sketchbook; Katherine Mansfield centenary ...
Date: 1988 - 1990
By: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004
Reference: A-307-018/052
Description: Drawings from sketchbooks include sketch portraits from Katherine Mansfield centenary symposium at Victoria University, and from the Writers' and Readers' Festival, Wellington, 1990. Subjects are: Adrian, English Department Auckland University (2 copies); Barbara Anderson, on Continuing Education tour France; Australia professor ?Webby; Tony Bellette, and Prof W H New, Toronto (2 copies); Gillian Bibby; Gil Porter / Marjorie Bernard; Alastair Campbell; Chinese scholar, English Department Auckland University [Schfen Gro..]; James Fenton editor; Dr Cherry Hankin (2 different views, and one duplicate), Epeli Hau'Ofa; Keri Hume; Festus Iyay, Readers & Writers '90 Festival; Tama Janovich , "Slaves of New York" (2 views); Japanese professor "The use of 'and' in Katherine Mansfield"; Ian McEwan, Readers & Writers Week (2 copies); National Orchestra; Rehearsal Verdi Requiem; Maurice Shadbolt; John Mansfield Thomson "That which you give frees you; That which you keep is lost forever"; Entertainment in Wellington, Dr John [E] Thomson; Dorothea Turner at her 80th [birthday]; Villa Franche sur Mer; Geoff Walker; Albert Wendt; Lydia Wevers; and one untitled. Quantity: 35 photocopy/ies including duplicates.. Physical Description: Photocopies on white and tinted sheets, approximately 230 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Janet Paul in 1996. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives..
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Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Sketchbook. 1995-1996].
Date: 1995 - 1996
From: Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :[Thirty-one sketchbooks 1959-1997].
Reference: E-691
Description: Includes figure sketches: Laura Garland, figures seated at tables and in enclosed gardens; Caroline Mason, Anne Mu[nz?], Old ladies from Quaker Village, Ema and Sophie Tomlinson, Dorothea Turner, Anne Hall, Quintin at Elm Row in fur hat 1995, MN [Michael Nicholson] 2/1/[1996]; Abby & Laura, 1 Manley Street Newtown; Felix [Harris, son of Joanna Paul and Jeffrey Harris] 5.1.1996; Opoutere [2 figures]; Charlotte [Paul] at Tirua; group playing a board game; Jacob [Edmond, son of Mary Paul and Murray Edmond] and Ruth [Cunningham, daughter of Charlotte Paul and Kevin Cunningham] at Tirua; Deirdre Airey at work; Deirdre working at her tiles; Martin Lodge Waikato University; Kite day at Ngaio; Daisy at 33 Wanganui Ave 3.5.1996; Susan [Fletcher, daughter of Jane Paul and Michael Fletcher]; Jacob 5/96; Stone Aeire [?] Blenheim 28/5 [1996]; Michael at Stone Aeire; Morning Tai Chi, Mary Beaven, Francie & Terry Shagin in their kitchen; Lunch picnic at Okarito; Michael drawing rocks; Anne Hall Okarito; Gar Graham. Includes various landscape and interior sketches; named ones include: Bushey Park 14.12.1995; Scorching Bay 6.1.[1996]; Tirua the yellow house canna, bougainvillea, mandarin; Coromandel Feb 1996; Mount Adam over lagoon Okarito. Includes notes of a lecture by Tony Bellette, 17 February 1996, about Andalusian art and music. Hand-made album by Barbara Schmelzer Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Handbound book with handmade paper covers on board, handsewn to inner leaves, 200 x 233 mm. Provenance: Estate of Janet Elaine Paul, 2005.
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Wellington Potters' and Weavers' Exhibition (with the support of the Queen Elizabeth II...
Date: 1965
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to artists, art awards, art sales and art exhibitions]
Reference: Eph-B-ARTS-1966-01
Description: Catalogue for an exhibition featuring work by potters (Jack Laird, Elizabeth Matheson, Rachel Rose, Anneke Borren, Flora Christeller, Nan Berkeley, Inez Rennie, Juliet Peter, Muriel Moody, Pat Conneally, Kathleen White, Roy Cowan, Doreen Blumhardt, Minna Bondy, Lily de Weldige, Rebecca Chappell, Lee Thomson, Thelma Lamont, David Carson-Parker, Margaret Lawrie, Wilfrid Wright, Janet Wright, Dorothy Ewart, Nora Cutler, Flo Collins, Marie Stephens, Claire Cockcroft, Mavis Jack, Eric Penny, Paul Melser), and by weavers (Ilse von Randow, Ida Lough, Kathleen Low, Esther Tyler, Josephine Munro, Geraldine Campbell, Nora Ewing, Joyce Lloyd, Christine Condon, Gwen Scott, Winifred Low, Barbara Lewis, Phyllis Woodward, Margaret Weston, M & P Martin Smith, Lorna Waugh, Dorothea Turner, Para Weavers). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Typescript on 7 sheets, 335 x 210 mm.
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Papers re Alexander Turnbull Library's absorption into the National Library
Date: [1964-1965]
From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers
Reference: 83-248-1
Description: File of correspondence, clippings and other papers relating to the controversy over the absorption of Alexander Turnbull Library into the National Library. Identified persons entered under Name. Includes remits and notes. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Series 1 John Mulgan - Letters to parents
Date: 1925-1945
From: Mulgan family : Papers relating to John Mulgan
Reference: Series-3553
Description: Letters written by John Mulgan to his parents while a boarder at Wellington College and later a student at Merton College Oxford and during his subsequent career as an editor at Oxford University Press and an officer in the British Army stationed in Northern Ireland, North Africa and Greece Quantity: 28 folder(s) 2 volumes.
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Interview with Dorothea Turner on Blackwood Paul
Date: 22 July 1991
From: Blackwood and Janet Paul recordings
By: Turner, Dorothea Frances (Dr), 1910-1997
Reference: OHInt-0547/15
Description: Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHA-008012 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.
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Named correspondents - M to Z, and others
Date: [ca 1980-2008]
From: Brown, Gwyneth Lee, 1925-2015 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11984-08
Description: Collection of letters and papers from and relating to Alan Mulgan, Frederick and Evelyn Page, Ruth and Fergus Pope, Alexander Turner, and others. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holograph, typescript, and printed matter, including newspaper clippings and photocopies
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Interview with Lady Dorothea Turner
Date: 4 Aug 1992 - 04 Aug 1992
From: Oral history interviews for the Archive of New Zealand Music
By: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999; Turner, Dorothea Frances (Dr), 1910-1997
Reference: OHInt-0134-12
Description: Interview with Lady Dorothea Turner (nee Mulgan), born in Christchurch in 1910. Talks about her Mulgan family background, referring to her father Alan and uncle Geoffrey Mulgan (joint head of music at Oxford University Press). Mentions learning to play the piano, and life as a boarder at Nelson Girls College. Comments on doing an arts degree at Auckland University College and having private piano lessons. Refers to fellow students including Martin Sullivan, Margot Milner, Blackwood Paul and the literary set. Mentions she would have liked to pursue an academic career but there were no post-graduate awards available to women and she had got engaged. Comments on being music critic for the Listener (1944-1952), and later the Auckland Star (1949-1954), as well as writing for other journals such as "Musical America". Talks about a visit to London in 1948-49, concerts she attended, and doing relieving teaching. Refers to attending a music festival in Colorado on the way home. Talks about musical life in Auckland and New Zealand in the 1940s and later. Refers to an attempt to transplant the Berlin Philharmonic to New Zealand before the war and the role of Vaughn Williams. Discusses singer Mina Foley, the quality of her voice and her mental breakdown. Mentions her efforts to get new pianos out to New Zealand after the war and the lingering opposition to German pianos. Comments on Sister Mary Leo and her teaching methods, and Heather Begg. Discusses the growth of the Community Arts Service involving Owen Jensen. Mentions the first Cambridge Music School with Douglas Lilburn in 1946 where she was a pianist. Refers to a music festival at Tirau with Lili Kraus and Robert Pikler. Mentions the difficulties of combining writing with being a performer. Comments on the National Orchestra and its early conductors Andersen Tyrer and Michael Bowles. Interviewer(s) - John M. Thomson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-020287 - OHC-020289 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7116. Search dates: 1910 - 1992
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1986
From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5146-40
Description: Contains correspondence received by Edmond from various friends and some relating to publication of her work, 1986; also includes letters from Lester, Mr Albert, Auckland, Clive of Napier, Garth or Remuera, Chris at the University of Melbourne and Dudley of Ohope, and cards from Lindsey sent from the United Kingdom, Sandra of Melbourne, Kthy and Bruno, Barbara of Kew, Victoria, Australia, and two poems `Moths (for Lauris)' and `Living apart(for Lindsay)' Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Notes on the Mulgan family
Date: [ca 2002]
From: O'Sullivan, Vincent Gerard, 1937- : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8612-152
Description: Typed notes by Dorothy Turner (nee Mulgan) on the Mulgan family Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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A R D Fairburn - Transcripts of interviews
Date: [ca 1964-1980]
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7811-089
Description: Partial transcripts of interviews, some very early, of people's reminiscences of A R D Fairburn. Other Titles - Walking on my feet, A R D Fairburn 1904-1957, a kind of biography Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence
Date: Mar 1972-Sep 1973
From: Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993 : Papers
Reference: 75-227-1/09
Description: Selected correspondents entered in Name field. Includes correspondence re Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award 1973; with publishers; `Death in every port'; NZ Heritage; move to Sanson, etc Quantity: 1 folder(s). Letter from Pat Lawlor has group photo attached
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Papers relating to the Rhodes Scholarship and Paul Day's study of John Mulgan
Date: 1931-1933, 1966-1969
From: Mulgan family : Papers relating to John Mulgan
Reference: MS-Papers-7906-64
Description: Includes Mulgan's 1931 examination results, two letters from Lord Bledisloe to Alan Mulgan re John Mulgan's decision to study at Merton College, Oxford, 9 Apr 1933 and his progress there, 9 March 1935; also papers relating to Paul Day's `John Mulgan' (Thwaynes World Authors Series) and letter from Day's sister-in-law Dorothea Turner, ca 1967 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
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Correspondence
Date: 1949-1980
From: Shaw, Helen Lilian, 1913-1984 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7642-155
Description: Literary correspondence; also some with publishers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
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Extract from letters of John Mulgan
Date: 1933-1936
From: Mulgan family : Papers relating to John Mulgan
Reference: MS-Papers-7906-92
Description: Extracts from letters written by John Mulgan to his parents and sister, Dorothea, includes a quotation from the poetry of Houseman Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
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Miscellaneous correspondence
Date: 1943-1949
From: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004 : Papers of and relating to David Blackwood Paul
Reference: MS-Papers-5523-14
Description: Personal correspondence, plus some relating to Paul's role as a publisher Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some carbon copies)
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Correspondence
Date: Oct 1970-May 1971
From: Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993 : Papers
Reference: 75-227-1/07
Description: Selected correspondents entered in Name field. Includes correspondence re `Reluctant Editor', `Fragrant Moon, `Death in every port', overseas trip, etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: [1970-1979]
From: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6748-60
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also letters from Pam, Whitford; Jan, of Ilam, Christchurch; Peggy, Johnsonville; Gordon, Christchurch; Gold, Mission Bay, Auckland; Mavis D, Palmerston North Hospital; Bert and Irmgard, Hornby, Ontario; Henry of Tientsin; Tessa and Ian, Mt Isa, Queensland; Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence
Date: Feb-Sep 1970
From: Holcroft, Montague Harry, 1902-1993 : Papers
Reference: 75-227-1/06
Description: Selected correspondents entered in Name field. Includes correspondence re `Reluctant Editor', overseas travel, etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence, unidentified or undated
Date: [1970-1992]
From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5171-32
Description: Contains undated correspondence from various people. Identified persons entered under Name; also includes cards, postcards and letters from Dinah of Oxford, England, Judy from London, Juliet, Kyle and Julia, Alte and Neue Pinacotheque of Munich, Pat, Glenda of Browns Bay, Robert, Margaret, Maura, Dorothea [?] Turner, Alithea, Steph, Ian and Wendy, and Gill, and handmade paper booklet of poetry by Shona Gosnell. Quantity: 1 folder(s).