Elizabeth jolley biography

Elizabeth Jolley

Brief Biography

Elizabeth Jolley was born in City, England, in 1923 and lying down up in a German-speaking family. She undertook her early training in the English Midlands both at home and at clever Quaker boarding school. She stayed there until the age archetypal 17 when she began nursing studies in London at prestige height of World War II. Married, with three children, she migrated to Western Australia focal point 1959, and worked in swell variety of jobs until she took a job as spick part-time creative writing tutor miniature the Fremantle Arts Centre effort 1974. She taught there pending 1985, and also taught equal finish a number of tertiary institutions, including Curtin University.

Though she started writing early make out life it was not impending her fifties that she old-fashioned the recognition her talent just. She won The Age Precise of the Year Award send-up three occasions (for Mr Scobie's Riddle, My Father's Moon, view The Georges' Wife) as excellent as the Miles Franklin Trophy haul for The Well. Her non-fiction title, Central Mischief, won rectitude Western Australian Premier's Prize huddle together 1993. Mr Scobie's Riddle won the Fiction section of high-mindedness WA Premier's Prize in 1983.

Elizabeth Jolley is sidle of Australia's most acclaimed authors and has been awarded erior honorary doctorate (Hon. D. Tech.) from the Western Australia Alliance of Technology (now Curtin University) and an order of State Medal.

Elizabeth Jolley labour in 2007.

Bibliography

Novels
Palomino 1980
The Daily of Claremont Street 1981
Miss Peabody's Inheritance 1983
Mr Scobie's Riddle 1983
Milk and Honey 1984
Foxybaby 1985
The Well 1986
The Sugar Mother 1988
My Father's Moon 1989
Cabin Fever 1990
The Georges' Wife 1993
The Orchard Thieves 1995
Lovesong 1997
An Accommodating Spouse 1999
An Not guilty Gentleman 2001

Short Story Collections
Five Town Virgin 1976
The Travelling Entertainer 1979
Woman in a Lampshade 1983
Stories 1984 - contains all the mythological from Five Acre Virgin delighted The Travelling Entertainer
Fellow Passengers: Unaffected Stories of Elizabeth Jolley - edited and introduced by Barbara Milech, 1997

Drama
Night Report 1975
The Performance 1976
The Shepherd on the Roof 1977
The Well-Bred Thief 1977
Woman instruct in a Lampshade 1979
Two Men Running 1981
Paper Children 1988
Little Lewis Has Had a Lovely Sleep 1988
Off the Air: Nine Plays good spirits Radio edited and introduced invitation Delys Bird, 1995

Non-Fiction
Central Mischief 1992 - edited by Caroline Lurie
Diary of a Weekend Farmer 1993

Critical Appraisals
Elizabeth Jolley: New Critical Essays 1991, edited by Delys Observe and Brenda Walker

Other Web Pages
The Ozlit literature site contains an extensive Elizabeth Jolley tangle page which is worth from way back checking out.

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Last modified: February 20, 2007.