Elizabeth Harrower (writer)

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Elizabeth Harrower (born February 8, 1928 in Sydney ; † July 7, 2020 there ) was an Australian writer .

Life

Elizabeth Harrower grew up in Newcastle and from 1940 in Sydney, where she took up work as an office worker after graduating from school. From 1951 to 1959 she stayed in Scotland and London and intended to study psychology. Instead, she started working as a writer. She published four novels in the 1950s and 1960s. When her mother died, she abruptly ended her writing career. She was forgotten outside of literary studies until her novels were reprinted in 2012. In 2014 she published her last novel manuscript, which she had withdrawn from Macmillan in 1971 before publication , which received a lively response, and a compilation of published short stories and short stories was also printed in 2015.

Works (selection)

  • Down in the city . Cassell, London 1957
  • The Long Prospect . Cassell, London 1958
  • The Catherine Wheel . Cassell, London 1960
  • The watch tower . Macmillan, London 1966
  • In Certain Circles . 2014
  • A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories . 2015

literature

  • Elizabeth McMahon, Brigitta Olubas (Eds.): Elizabeth Harrower: critical essays . Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-1-74332-559-9
  • Nicholas Birns: Contemporary Australian literature: a world not yet dead . Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2015 ISBN 978-1-74332-436-3 , pp. 45-64
  • Debra Adelaide : Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide . London: Pandora, 1988, ISBN 0-86358-149-8 , p. 98
  • Debra Adelaide: Bibliography of Australian women's literature: 1795-1990; a listing of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction published in monograph form arranged alphabetically by author . Port Melbourne, Victoria: Thorpe, 1991 ISBN 0-909532-90-7 , p. 84
  • Elizabeth Harrower , in: Robert L. Ross: Australian literary criticism, 1945 - 1988: an annotated bibliography . New York: Garland, 1989 ISBN 0-8240-1510-X , pp. 196f.
  • Harrower, Elizabeth , in: The bibliography of Australian literature. Volume 2 F - J . St. Lucia: Univ. of Queensland Press, 2004 ISBN 0-7022-3500-8 , p. 365
  • Gay Alcorn: Elizabeth Harrower: Australia's buried literary treasure is unearthed . Interview, in: The Guardian, July 7, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Elizabeth Harrower
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Harrower , in: Arthur G. Day: Modern Australian prose: 1901-1975; a guide to information sources . Detroit, Mich .: Gale Research, 1980, ISBN 0-8103-1243-3 pp. 181f.
  3. ↑ James Wood : No Times for Lies: Rediscovering Elizabeth Harrower , in: The New Yorker , October 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Harrower, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 2020
Place of death Sydney