Elizabeth Jolley

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Elizabeth Jolley’s reputation was first established by her short stories, one of which, “Hedge of Rosemary,” won an Australian prize as early as 1966. The first works she ever published were her short-story collections Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories (1976) and The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories (1979); although her novel Palomino won a prize as an unpublished work in 1975, it did not appear in print until 1980. A third volume of short stories, Woman in a Lampshade, was published in 1983. Her radio plays have...

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• Miss Peabody’s Inheritance (British Fiction)
• Miss Peabody’s Inheritance (Women’s Literature)
• Miss Peabody’s Inheritance (Character Profiles)
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• Palomino (Magill Book Reviews)
• Sugar Mother, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Well, The (British Fiction)
• Well, The (Character Profiles)
• Australian Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)