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'Elizabeth Jolley was a fine writer. Her publishing career began when she was in her 50s in Australia, but as author Brian Dibble demonstrates, her writing developed through the decades in England and Scotland, from her family of origin, to boarding schools and hospital wards, and into her independent adult life. The array of wild characters in her fiction - misfits and those on the edge of society - can also be found in the Jolley's remarkable life. It could be said that the times suited Jolley's rise as a major Australian writer, when old habits - of who and what could be published - were broken. Brian Dibble was given complete access to the writer's private papers and has spent more than a decade travelling the world to follow leads on the story of Elizabeth Jolley. This is a lyrical and readable biography, one that presents a world of family and pleasures, but is always infused somewhere with an unexpended sadness.' (Publication summary)
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A Great Novelist and a Dramatic Life
2010
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review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 118-119)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
A Great Novelist and a Dramatic Life
2009
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— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 225-226)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley by Brian Dibble
2009
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review
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
Untitled
2009
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review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 2 2009; (p. 201-208)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
WA Authors Vie for PM's Prize
2009
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column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 September 2009; (p. 5)
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A Jolley Difficult Life Until the Final Chapter
2008
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 September 2008; (p. 36)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
'Let a Message Be Found'
2008
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 7-8)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
Complex Memoir of WA Literary Maven
2008
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 15 October 2008; (p. 8)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
Her Dark Inheritance
2008
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 October 2008; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
Dance to the Music of Life
2008
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 October 2008; (p. 21-22)
— Review of Doing Life : A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley 2008 single work biography -
Between a Muddle and a Mystery
2008-2009
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criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , December-January no. 41 2008-2009; (p. 62-65) -
WA Authors Vie for PM's Prize
2009
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column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 September 2009; (p. 5)
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted National Biography Award
- 2009 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Non-Fiction
- 2008 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — West Australian History
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