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Judith Armstrong Judith Armstrong i(A89394 works by) (birth name: Judith Mary Emerson) (a.k.a. Judith Mary Armstrong; Judith M. Armstrong)
Born: Established: 1935 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Sense and Sensibility in a Time of Coronavirus : Vicarious Escape with Jane Austen Judith Armstrong , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 27 July 2020;

'That we are all spending more time at home these days goes without saying; for those of us in Melbourne, our four walls feel restraining when most ways of leaving them are proscribed. So let me persuade you of a marvellously legitimate alternative to breaking the law, sorting your messy passwords, or rearranging your higgledy-piggledy books into some kind of order. It’s called vicarious escape.' (Introduction)

1 From Russia with Hope Judith Armstrong , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 May 2019; (p. 20)

— Review of Invented Lives Andrea Goldsmith , 2019 single work novel

'Andrea Goldsmith is a distinguished and prolific Australian writer. To review her new novel, Invented Lives, I returned to a review I did of her 2009 novel Reunion, to remind myself of what I’d said. In doing so, I noticed structural similarities between the two, and also to her award-winning 2015 novel The Memory Trap.'(Introduction)

1 The Meanjin Funding Cuts : a Graceless Coup? Judith Armstrong , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 May 2016;
'In 1940, in Brisbane, the young journalist Clem Christesen initiated a “desperate attempt” to offer Queensland writers a “modest publishing outlet”. What the country needed (in this second year of WW2) was a literary magazine to provide a forum for the defence of “important values”. In December, Meanjin Papers was launched: a small edition of eight pages, 250 copies. ...'
1 4 y separately published work icon Dymphna Judith Armstrong , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2016 10454011 2016 single work biography

'Dymphna Lodewyckx was a brilliant linguist who easily won prizes and scholarships but cannot be said to have pursued a career; instead, she married Manning Clark, who earned great fame as an Australian historian. Occasional translations and classes gave Dymphna much pleasure and some pride, but they were not her priority. How could they be, when she was her husband’s constant research assistant and unofficial editor, as well as the mother of their six children? This was clearly her choice.

'Wasn’t it?' (Publication summary)

1 Paris Mismatch Judith Armstrong , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 372 2015; (p. 64)

— Review of Ransacking Paris : A Year with Montaigne and Friends Patti Miller , 2015 single work novel
1 Judith Armstrong Reviews 'Goodbye Sweetheart' by Marion Halligan Judith Armstrong , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;

— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
1 Proposals Judith Armstrong , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 350 2013;

— Review of Chasing the Light : A Novel of Antarctica Jesse Blackadder , 2013 single work novel
1 Dubious Activities Judith Armstrong , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 352 2013;

— Review of Who We Were Lucy Neave , 2013 single work novel
1 Feeling and Action Judith Armstrong , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 341 2012; (p. 51-52)

— Review of Demanding the Impossible : Seven Essays on Resistance Sylvia Lawson , 2012 selected work essay
1 1 Anna Karenina Judith Armstrong , 2011 single work drama
1 2 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir Judith Armstrong , 2011 single work drama
1 5 y separately published work icon War and Peace and Sonya : A Novel Judith Armstrong , Millers Point : Pier 9 , 2011 Z1880134 2011 single work novel

'In 1862, Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known, Leo Tolstoy. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in a union that was at once passionate, collegial and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen children and worked for years as his copyist, rewriting countless drafts of his timeless novels. Both were mercurial and passionate personalities and, towards his end, Tolstoy deserted her.

In War & Peace and Sonya, Russian scholar Judith Armstrong tells Sonya's own story exploring their devotion and ambivalence to one another, their passion for great literature and the powers of the imagination, and showing us just how remarkably true to life fiction Judith Armstrong can be.' (Publisher's website)

1 Minds of Others Judith Armstrong , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 332 2011; (p. 57)

— Review of Shooting the Fox Marion Halligan , 2011 selected work short story
1 Missing the Point Judith Armstrong , 2010 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2010 - January 2011 no. 327 2010; (p. 6-7)
1 Brief Lives Judith Armstrong , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 325 2010; (p. 32)

— Review of Reading Madame Bovary Amanda Lohrey , 2010 selected work short story
1 2 A Curious Night at the Wheeler Centre Judith Armstrong , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 325 2010; (p. 16, 18)
Judith Armstrong provides a personal account of a Wheeler Centre event titled 'Critical Failure'. The book session attended by Armstrong was based on the assertion that 'Australian criticism of film, theatre, books and the visual arts is, in its own words, "failing us all".'
1 Traversing a Poet's Terrain Judith Armstrong , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 August 2010; (p. 22)

— Review of My Blood's Country Fiona Capp , 2010 single work prose
1 Shock of the Old Judith Armstrong , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Otherland Maria Tumarkin , 2010 single work autobiography
1 Republican Plot Judith Armstrong , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 31)

— Review of The President's Wife Thea Welsh , 2010 single work novel
1 Best Books of the Year Patrick Allington , Dennis Altman , Judith Armstrong , Nicholas Birns , James Bradley , Peter Craven , Morag Fraser , Andrea Goldsmith , Anna Goldsworthy , Lisa Gorton , Bridget Griffen-Foley , Paul Hetherington , Jacqueline Kent , John Kinsella , James Ley , Patrick McCaughey , Brian McFarlane , Peter Mares , David Marr , Brenda Niall , Peter Pierce , Geordie Williamson , Maya Linden , Pam Macintyre , Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , Stephanie Owen Reeder , Mike Shuttleworth , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2009 - January 2010 no. 317 2009; (p. 20-25)
Australian writers and reviewers each nominate their best books of 2009. Some of the books listed are by Australian writers.
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