A giant of Australian literature has left us: the gifted, fey, observant, and compassionate Elizabeth Jolley. Miss Eagle sheds a tear. She remembers the pleasure, the smiles, the laughter her work has wrought in her life. Love goes out to her as she continues her journey in another place and to the family and friends she has left behind.
For many Australians, she will be best known for The Newspaper of Claremont Street. For many of us, it was our introduction to Elizabeth's work when it was a featured bookreading on the ABC.
For more about Elizabeth and a bibliography, go here. For a wonderful piece by Australian writer, Helen Garner, go here.
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Elizabeth Jolley will be missed - she is indeed a very fine writer...
What a wonderful glimpse of Elizabeth Helen Garner gives us... Helen too is a great Australian writer
Doesn't Australia have some great writers? Lovely to hear from you. Hope and pray all is well with you and yours. Thank you for dropping by.
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