Lesley Styles Lesley Styles i(A9540 works by) (birth name: Lesley Emily Styles) (a.k.a. L.E. Styles)
Born: Established: 1924 Southern Cross, Southern Cross area, Northam - Southern Cross area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Meanwhile, Back at the Gallery Lesley Styles , Tom Price : Lesley Styles , 1996 Z804077 1996 single work autobiography humour If you think there's no laughter left in a remote, doomed town, think again. This is the story of Wittenoom that the press didn't cover. While the media focussed on the terminal effects of asbestos and mesothelioma, many of the inhabitants got on with a wonderfully individual and rewarding way of life in some of the most spectacularly beautiful country in Australia. If you walked into Wittenoom today, you would find the remaining locals trying to mend telephone lines that Telstra won't let technicians touch for fear of asbestos in the air, in an all but deserted little town. But it wasn't always so. As the writer, Lesley Styles, painter and author, recounts, "Wittenoom was once the rowdiest, bounciest, lives-every-ounciest place you're ever likely to run into. Or, on occasion, out of. It was a bubbling cauldron of diverse characters, a last bastion of individualism - so rare a thing these days." So this is the inside story, spanning 1968 to 1995: the fun, the tragedies, the floods, the cyclones, the army maneouvres, the barbeques, the births, the deaths, the tourists, the school camps, the hospital, the scenery, the wildlife and back at the gallery with Lesley Styles and Val Charlton. As the author says of her book, "jam packed with characters and absolutely no plot" - but it certainly has a story! If you've ever wondered what life is really like away from the coastal cities, in a tiny outback town, Back at the Gallery will give you an insight. If you've ever wondered what it might be like to chuck it all in and walk away from city life forever, Back at the Gallery is one person's experience. (Bookseller blurb)
1 Passing South i "Stop you,", Lesley Styles , 1989 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poets in Uniform : An Anthology of Verse from Salt the Australian Army Education Service Journal World War II 1989; (p. 115)
1 y separately published work icon Oh Laura Lesley Styles , Wittenoom : Jabiru Books , 1982 Z959276 1982 single work autobiography travel humour
1 Oleander Time, Wittenoom i "Against the great deep blue", Lesley Styles , 1981 single work poetry
— Appears in: Artlook , August vol. 7 no. 8 1981; (p. 30)
1 Drive-In Movie i "The startled stars", Lesley Styles , 1980 single work poetry
— Appears in: Galloping On : A Selection from the 1979 Grand National Poetry Stakes 1980; (p. 137)
1 y separately published work icon The Gordo Blanco Affair Lesley Styles , Perth : Jabiru Books , 1975 Z959273 1975 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Outer Gate Lesley Styles , Adelaide : Rigby , 1963 Z513518 1963 single work novel The story of a talented artist's love affair with a promiscuous advertising executive.
1 Passionate Artist to His Love i "Turn your dear face thus.", Lesley Styles , 1956 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 3 1956; (p. 24)
1 Song for a Sundowner i "I heed no smiles of other shores;", Lesley Styles , 1954 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Winthrop Review , Mid-Year vol. 2 no. 2 1954; (p. 44)
1 Poet's Death i "Well! Look at them all! Mother is weeping,", Lesley Styles , 1954 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Winthrop Review , Commencement vol. 2 no. 1 1954; (p. 28)
1 The Captive i "Last night against the stars I heard them cry", Lesley Styles , 1953 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Winthrop Review , Christmas vol. 1 no. 3 1953; (p. 26) The Winthrop Review , Michaelmas vol. 2 no. 3 1954; (p. 42)
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