Ros Collins Ros Collins i(A123646 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Rosa : Memories with Licence Ros Collins , Chatswood : New Holland , 2019 17280552 2019 single work biography

'As British as Earl Grey tea, Rosa has spent most of her life in Melbourne. Her children and grandchildren are all Australian-born, as was Alan, her writer husband. But Rosa is hesitant about an unconditional commitment to Vegemite, mateship and the ANZAC legend; she remains a perennial migrant, often amused by her memories, here presented with a deliberate overlay of lies and licence. Her family’s history is nearer to Dickens than the shtetls of Eastern Europe; Rosa herself recalls Dunkirk and the Blitz. Beyond the conservatism of 1950s London that she escaped, Rosa flings open the windows and doors to invite the reader into her Anglo-Australian-Jewish family. She refrains from delving into deep psychological examinations of what it means to be an only child, an only grandchild, a reluctant Jewish teenager, and muse to a man whose terrible childhood scarred him for life; the ‘clues’ are all there for the curious reader to discover.'

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1 Discrimination in the Book Industry Ros Collins , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Age , 12 May 2009; (p. 10)
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