Jill Golden Jill Golden i(A20814 works by) (birth name: Hilary Graham Shaw)
Born: Established: 1941 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Truth-Telling : A Passage to Survival in Doris Brett's 'Eating the Underworld. A Memoir in Three Voices' Jill Golden , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction 2006; (p. 175-187) 'Doris Brett is a poet, writer and psychotherapist whose 2001 book, "Eating the Underworld. A Memoir in Three Voices", tells three concurrent stories about survival. The author survives ovarian cancer and its return; she is the daughter of Holocaust survivors whose experiences are the background to her own childhood; and she describes herself as a survivor of childhood sibling abuse. The three stories have subterranean links which Brett uncovers in ways that raise ethical and psychological questions of great complexity. Layers of understanding about family and memory are knitted together through three different narrative strategies: poetry, journal writing and fairy tales. The result is as complex as a Fair Isle sweater. This multifaceted effort at truth-telling becomes Brett's passage to survival; through the processes of negotiating and narrating she constructs an identity that enables her to make sense of her life. Brett's first story in "Eating the Underworld" is the intimately personal one of her physical and emotional experience of ovarian cancer, and its recurrence, which covers a period of several years. Her second narrative is motivated by and is a response to the writings of her sister Lily Brett. Lily, herself a well-established poet, short story writer and essayist, has written extensively as the child of Holocaust survivors. Readers of "Eating the Underworld" have no way to adjudicate between the two sisters' versions of their mother, but in choosing to write memoir rather than fiction, Doris has implicitly entered into a 'pact' with her readers. What part can fairy tales possibly play in such 'will to truth'? Do fairy tales lie outside any autobiographical pact in Doris's memoir? If so, why has she included them and why does she give the very last words in the book to her fairy tale characters? What kind of narrative trust can include the use of fairy tales and how are readers expected to relate them to the journal and poetry sections of "Eating the Underworld"?' [Source: Flinders Academic Commons. ]
1 9 y separately published work icon Inventing Beatrice Jill Golden , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2006 Z1295360 2006 single work novel

When Beatrice Collins dies, her daughters discover the secret diaries she had kept as a student at Melbourne University in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The diaries reveal her passionate relationships with other young women in a group calling itself 'Mob'. They are defiant, unconventional women. Their closeness is challenged by the arrival of the charismatic Tom.

The second part of the book, written in Beatrice's own voice, takes up her story in Sydney immediately after the Second World war. While Beatrice struggles to live out her ideals about freedom, love and equality, she makes choices that will impact on her children for the rest of their lives.

Inventing Beatrice is based on letters and diaries discovered by the author in 1994, after her mother's death.

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1 Ethical Bearings in an Inter-Generational Auto/Biography : Writing in My Mother's Voice Jill Golden , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 2 no. 1 2005; (p. 97-107) Discusses an unpublished work, 'Beatrice Speaking', which gives an account of three years of her mother's life derived from her correspondence.
1 1 'Inventing Beatrice' : Writing and Auto/biography Jill Golden , 2000 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 26 no. 2 2000; (p. 176-185)
1 Untitled Jill Golden , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Refractory Girl , January no. 34 1990; (p. 38-39)
— Review of Women and the Bush : Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition Kay Schaffer , 1988 multi chapter work criticism
1 St Martin's, Pt. Noarlunga i "Westward-facing windows", Jill Golden , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Images from the Flame : An Anthology of Poetry from the Bethany Women's Centre for Creative Spirituality 1990;
1 Warrawong Sanctuary i "Embrace the tree", Jill Golden , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Images from the Flame : An Anthology of Poetry from the Bethany Women's Centre for Creative Spirituality 1990;
1 Christmas i "Our tree has come", Jill Golden , 1990 single work poetry
— Appears in: Images from the Flame : An Anthology of Poetry from the Bethany Women's Centre for Creative Spirituality 1990; (p. 56)
1 Long-Distance Lovers i "We were long-distance lovers, you and I;", Jill Golden , 1988 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Twelve 1988; (p. 31-32) The Inner Courtyard : A South Australian Anthology of Love Poetry 1990; (p. 49-50)
1 Home Birth i "Juliana Jessica", Jill Golden , 1988 single work poetry
— Appears in: Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Twelve 1988; (p. 30)
1 Belly Image Jill Golden , 1988 single work short story
— Appears in: Womanspeak , December-January (1988-1989) 1988; (p. 18)
1 A Midsummer Night's Dream (for Katie) Jill Golden , 1988 single work poetry
— Appears in: Twenty-Two Women 1988;
1 1 y separately published work icon Jess Jill Golden , Adelaide : Tantrum Press , 1987 Z205198 1987 selected work short story
1 Lemon Tree i "Our roots twist deep into this rocky soil", Jill Golden , 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: Masks 1987; Images from the Flame : An Anthology of Poetry from the Bethany Women's Centre for Creative Spirituality 1990;
1 Callistemon Jill Golden , 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: Masks 1987; Moments of Desire : Sex and Sensuality by Australian Feminist Writers 1989; (p. 138)
1 Leaving Home Jill Golden , 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: Jess 1987; (p. 35-37)
1 Departure Jill Golden , 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: Jess 1987; (p. 32-34)
1 Eyes Jill Golden , 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: Jess 1987; (p. 29-31)
1 Period Jill Golden , 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: Jess 1987; (p. 26-28)
1 The Necklace Jill Golden , 1987 single work short story
— Appears in: Jess 1987; (p. 21-25)
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