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    Elizabeth Jolley

    Australian writer (1923-2007)

    Monica Elizabeth Jolley was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels, four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University. Her novels explore "alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment." Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Jolley and (younger) sister Madelaine Winifred reading, ca. 1927. Jolley was born in Birmingham, England as Monica Elizabeth Knight, to an English father and Austrian-born mother who was the daughter of a high ranking Railways official. [3] She grew up in the Black Country in the English industrial Midlands.She was educated privately until age 11, when she was sent to Sibford School ...
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    Elizabeth Jolley (born June 4, 1923, Birmingham, Eng.—died Feb. 13, 2007, Perth, Austl.) was a British-born Australian novelist and short-story writer whose dryly comic work features eccentric characters and examines relationships between women.. Jolley was raised in a German-speaking household in England.She moved from England to Australia in 1959, and her work often features contrasts ...
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    Jolley, Elizabeth (1923—)British-born Australian short-story writer and novelist who is considered pre-eminent in Australia and over-seas for her innovative and experimental fiction. Pronunciation: JOLL-lee. Source for information on Jolley, Elizabeth (1923—): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
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    Elizabeth Jolley has had perhaps the most meteoric rise to fame of any Australian writer during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Apart from stories in anthologies and journals Jolley had had no work published until 1976 when, at the age of fifty-three, her collection Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories appeared under the aegis of the ...
  7. goodreads.com

    Monica Elizabeth Jolley was an award-winning writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 years old when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy), four short story collections, and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim.
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    Author:Elizabeth JolleyBorn:June 4, 1923Died:February 13, 2007 (aged 83)
  8. curtin.edu.au

    Jun 1, 2023Image: Elizabeth Jolley, date unknown. Courtesy of Fremantle Press. Curtin University lecturer Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007) was a critically acclaimed, bestselling author in the 1980s and 1990s. She wrote quirky, dream-like novels and short stories. One of her best-known novels, The Well, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1986. Her friend and ...
  9. kids.britannica.com

    Elizabeth Jolley's first book, a collection of short stories titled Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories, was published in 1976, when she was 53 years old. Jolley's first novel, Palomino, concerns a lesbian relationship between a 60-year-old doctor and a much-younger woman pregnant with her own brother's child. Jolley began writing it in ...
  10. stagenoise.com

    Elizabeth Jolley was born in Birmingham, England, in 1923. Her mother was Viennese and the household was German-speaking (as was the punctuation of her fiction many decades later). Jolley was educated at home and at a Quaker boarding school. When she was 17 and in the middle of WW2, she began nursing studies in London.

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