Cirrus@Austlit

'Elisabeth Jolley is an internationally famous Australian woman writer. At the age of fifty three, Jolley published her first novel. Her novel The Well won Miles Franklin Prize which was the highest literary award in Australia. Jolley's literary creation and her life experience are inseparable. Her life is full of ups and downs; her bumpy life promotes her literary creation, and her literary career is full of countless obstacles and setbacks. In spite of all these, she reaches her peak of literary creation after she overcomes the insurmountable hardships. Jolley conquers obstacles in life and grows into an internationally well-known writer. This paper intends to explore Jolley's life experience and its influence on her literary creation. The study of her life experience and its influences on her literary creation is of great significance to in-depth interpretation of Joney's literary works.' (98)