Cirrus@Austlit

Jill Neville left Australia for Britain in 1951, and worked as a teacher, copywriter, social worker and journalist. She contributed literary criticism and poetry to several London newspapers and periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer, the London Magazine and the Sunday Times. Neville was the sister of Richard Neville (q.v.).

Her partly autobiographical novel Fall-Girl (1966) includes a fictionalised depiction of her love affair with the poet Peter Porter (q.v.), whom she met whilst on board a ship on her way to England. Last Ferry to Manly (1984) contains a fictionalised portrait of Edmund Campion (q.v.)