Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career
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Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing Barbara Milech , Brian Dibble , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;

'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.

Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.

This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)

Untitled Shurlee Swain , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , April vol. 30 no. 112 1999; (p. 211)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
ASAL Literary Awards Robert Dixon , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 41 1998; (p. 9-10)
An Alien Career Paul Adams , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 149 1997; (p. 98-99)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
Untitled Harry Payne Heseltine , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 18 no. 2 1997; (p. 195-198)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism ; The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
A Turbulent Path John McLaren , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 192 1997; (p. 20-21)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
Untitled Ron Shapiro , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1997; (p. 137-140)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
Why Judah Waten? Aimee Mazza , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News (What's On) , 14 November vol. 64 no. 7 1997; (p. WO6)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
An Alien Son Who Found a Home in Australia Ralph Elliott , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 November 1997; (p. 26)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism
Untitled Harry Payne Heseltine , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 18 no. 2 1997; (p. 195-198)

— Review of A Career in Writing : Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career David Carter , 1997 single work criticism ; The English Men : Professing Literature in Australian Universities Leigh Dale , 1997 single work criticism
ASAL Literary Awards Robert Dixon , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , October no. 41 1998; (p. 9-10)
Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing Barbara Milech , Brian Dibble , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;

'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.

Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.

This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)

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