Barbara Jefferis (1917–2004)
Autor de The tall one
Obras de Barbara Jefferis
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The High Girders / Half Angel / The Devil's Advocate / Pioneer, Go Home / Flight from… (1956) — Autor — 4 copias
Best-in-Books (Night Without End / The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned / Who, Me? / Half Angel / The Slender Thread) (1960) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1917-03-25
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2004-01-03
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Educación
- University of Adelaide
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
radio writer
novelist - Biografía breve
- Barbara Jefferis was born in Adelaide, Australia. Her mother died when she was only six months old, and due to her father's absence working as a chemist in England during World War I, she was cared for by her maternal and paternal grandparents. She determined to become a writer at an early age. She went to boarding school in Adelaide and then enrolled at the University of Adelaide.
After graduation, she moved to Sydney to work as a journalist for The Daily News. She married John Hamilton Hinde, a fellow journalist on the paper. She worked at other newspapers, including The Telegraph, Women's Weekly, and Pix until the birth of the couple's daughter, when she became a freelance radio writer. She write more than 50 radio dramas, documentaries and scientific and educational programs.
In 1953, she decided to enter the Sydney Morning Herald's contest for an unpublished novel. Over the next three weeks, she wrote her first novel, Contango Day, which was the co-winner of that year's prize and was published in the USA and UK in 1954. Other novels included The Tall One (1977),
Time of the Unicorn (1974),
Half Angel (1959), The Wild Grapes (1963), and
Beloved Lady (1956).
The Barbara Jefferis Award, one of Australia's richest literary prizes, was created in her honor in 2007.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 57
- Popularidad
- #287,973
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 15
So I am not the only one sick-and-tired of the current crop of misery memoirs and novels featuring women as victims…
Barbara Jefferis wrote radio dramas, serials, docos and prize-winning fiction featuring empowered female central characters, but Three of a Kind is a biography of three women from the same family who broke the mould. This is the blurb:
Wikipedia, of course, did not exist when Jefferis wrote this bio… I bet she would have been pleased to see the entry for Mary Card both there and at the ADB Online. I’m not surprised that Harriet Wooldridge doesn’t have a presence as her career was brief, and motherhood, even of a very large brood, doesn’t rate as significant at Wikipedia. But Susan Brown should be there: she had a remarkable career. (It’s possible that she is, somewhere, because her stage name was spelt so many different ways, (Watson, Wooldridge, or Watson-Wooldridge or Wooldridge-Watson). So far I can only find US and UK actors of that name.)
Although there is a great deal about the career of Susan Brown a.k.a. Wooldridge (& its variations), it was the section about Mary Card that I liked best. Inspired by the example of her mother and grandmother, she wanted to be independent, and she first set up a small private school called the Astolat Ladies College, one of a surprising number in Melbourne after the passing of the 1870 Education Act that made education, secular, compulsory and free. Jefferis doesn’t use the word ‘snob’, but explains that the explosion of little private schools was due to two things:
Mary Card’s school was very successful but after just a few years she became profoundly deaf and could not continue to teach. She then tried her hand at writing and her occupation is listed in the 1903 and 1912 electoral rolls as ‘journalist’. But it was another form of writing which made her famous around the world. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/11/08/three-of-a-kind-by-barbara-jefferis-bookrevi...… (más)