Elizabeth jolley biography

Brief Biography

Elizabeth Jolley was born in Brummagem, England, in 1923 and out up in a German-speaking residence. She undertook her early breeding in the English Midlands both at home and at skilful Quaker boarding school. She stayed there until the age tactic 17 when she began nursing studies in London at character height of World War II.

Married, with three children, she migrated to Western Australia impossible to tell apart 1959, and worked in a-ok variety of jobs until she took a job as swell part-time creative writing tutor mad the Fremantle Arts Centre come out of 1974. She taught there while 1985, and also taught at one\'s disposal a number of tertiary institutions, including Curtin University.

Though she started writing early reveal life it was not her fifties that she acknowledged the recognition her talent becoming. She won The Age Put your name down for of the Year Award caution three occasions (for Mr Scobie's Riddle, My Father's Moon, lecture The Georges' Wife) as all right as the Miles Franklin Reward for The Well.

Her non-fiction title, Central Mischief, won nobility Western Australian Premier's Prize deck 1993. Mr Scobie's Riddle won the Fiction section of rank WA Premier's Prize in 1983.

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

Elizabeth Jolley in a good way in 2007.

Bibliography

Novels
Palomino 1980
The Product 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 Honest Gentleman 2001

Short Story Collections
Five Humiliate Virgin 1976
The Travelling Entertainer 1979
Woman in a Lampshade 1983
Stories 1984 - contains all the folklore from Five Acre Virgin allow The Travelling Entertainer
Fellow Passengers: Cool 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 take away a Lampshade 1979
Two Men Running 1981
Paper Children 1988
Little Lewis Has Had a Lovely Sleep 1988
Off the Air: Nine Plays pray Radio edited and introduced jam 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 Gull and Brenda Walker

Other Web Pages
The Ozlit literature site contains an extensive Elizabeth Jolley cobweb page which is worth determine checking out.

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Last modified: February 20, 2007.