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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Inseparable Elements : Dame Mary Durack, a Daughter's Perspective
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'Dame Mary Durack Miller was born into a pastoral legacy that made her name famous even before she became one of Australia’s most popular literary doyennes of the 20th century. Best known for her history of the Durack family, Kings in Grass Castles, Dame Mary was married to aviation pioneer Horrie Miller and was a sibling to the artist Elizabeth Durack. Among the multifarious threads woven into her life, she became a friend and confident to many celebrated writers, actors and artists. Drawing on a great accumulation of first-hand sources, principally her mother’s diaries and correspondence, Patsy Millett’s book is about a well-known family who saw their prospects as blighted. Written from the unique perspective of someone born into the wash-up of the Durack dynasty, Patsy says her account ‘will be controversial, as the reality behind the generally accepted facts has never been told’. Millet’s story is unflinching. Her sharp, insightful prose and acerbic wit create an intimate portrait of an extraordinary writer whose family life was filled with triumph and tragedy.'

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    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 464p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2nd November 2021
      ISBN: 9781760990855

Works about this Work

Her Mother’s Sentinel : An Unmissable Filial Portrait Susan Sheridan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 440 2022; (p. 52-53)

— Review of Inseparable Elements : Dame Mary Durack, a Daughter's Perspective Patsy Millett , 2021 single work biography

'Another book about a mother by a daughter, I thought when I saw this one, summoning to mind Biff Ward’s In My Mother’s Hands (2014), Kate Grenville’s One Life (2015), and Nadia Wheatley’s Her Mother’s Daughter (2018). But while each of those books presents an impressive woman cramped – sometimes tragically so – by her postwar circumstances, in this case we have a subject who was nothing short of a national treasure.'  (Introduction)

Her Mother’s Sentinel : An Unmissable Filial Portrait Susan Sheridan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 440 2022; (p. 52-53)

— Review of Inseparable Elements : Dame Mary Durack, a Daughter's Perspective Patsy Millett , 2021 single work biography

'Another book about a mother by a daughter, I thought when I saw this one, summoning to mind Biff Ward’s In My Mother’s Hands (2014), Kate Grenville’s One Life (2015), and Nadia Wheatley’s Her Mother’s Daughter (2018). But while each of those books presents an impressive woman cramped – sometimes tragically so – by her postwar circumstances, in this case we have a subject who was nothing short of a national treasure.'  (Introduction)

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