Learning to Dance

Elizabeth Jolley: Her Life and Her Work

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Author:

Jolley, Elizabeth
Lurie, Caroline

ISBN:

978-0-670-02974-7

Publication Date:

Jan 2006

Publisher:

Penguin Publishing Group

Imprint:

Viking Adult

Book Format:

Hardback

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Book Description:

Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant and best-loved writers, delighting readers with her acute observation of the world, her wicked humour, her compassion and her honesty. Learning to Dance brings together some of her most poignant short stories, essays and poems, and includes two formerly unpublished pieces. The recurring themes of her life and work are evident here- the complex relationships within families; homesickness and exile; intense love between...
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Book Details

Pages:	320
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Criticism / General Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.655 x 8.19 x 1.131 Inches
Book Weight:	1.148 Pounds

Author Biography

Jolley, Elizabeth (Author)

Elizabeth Jolley was born Monica Elizabeth Knight in Birmingham, England on June 4, 1923. She was educated privately until age 11, when she was sent to Sibford School, a Quaker boarding school. At 17 she began training as nurse in London and was exposed firsthand to the horrors of World War II. She emigrated to Australia in 1959 with her husband and their three children. Before becoming a full-time author, she had numerous jobs including nursing, housecleaning, and farming.

She published her first book of short stories, Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories, in 1976, and her first novel, Palomino, in 1980. Her other works included The Newspaper of Claremont Street, Mr. Scobie's Riddle, The Well, My Father's Moon, Miss Peabody's Inheritance, Foxybaby, and The Sugar Mother. She died on February 13, 2007 at the age of 83.

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