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Jessica Anderson

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Jessica Margaret Anderson (née Queale; 25 September 19169 July 2010) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. [1]

49 relations: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Amy Witting, An Ordinary Lunacy, Annerley, Queensland, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian labour movement, Australian Natives' Association, Australian Women's Land Army, Beverley Farmer, Brisbane, Brisbane central business district, Brisbane State High School, Charles Dickens, Charles Scribner's Sons, Church of England, Cranford (novel), Crime fiction, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland), Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Harrower (writer), Elizabeth Jolley, Gayndah, Great Depression, Helen Garner, Henry James, Laura Jones (screenwriter), Lever Brothers, Macmillan Publishers, Martin Boyd, Meanjin, Miles Franklin Award, Moreton Bay, National Library of Australia, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Olga Masters, Patrick Logan, Potts Point, New South Wales, Queensland, State Library of Queensland, Sydney, The Age Book of the Year, The Impersonators, The Lady of Shalott, Tirra Lirra by the River, World War I, World War II, Yeronga Memorial Park, Yeronga State School.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Amy Witting

Amy Witting (26 January 1918 – 18 September 2001) was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser.

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An Ordinary Lunacy

An Ordinary Lunacy (1963) is a novel by Australian writer Jessica Anderson.

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Annerley, Queensland

Annerley is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian labour movement

The Australian labour movement has its origins in the early 19th century and includes both trade unions and political activity.

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Australian Natives' Association

The Australian Natives' Association (ANA) was a mutual society founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871 as the Victorian Natives' Association.

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Australian Women's Land Army

The Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) was an organisation created in World War II in Australia to combat rising labour shortages in the farming sector.

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Beverley Farmer

Beverley Anne Farmer (also known as B. Christou) (7 February 1941 – 16 April 2018) was an Australian novelist and short story writer.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district (CBD), officially gazetted as the suburb of Brisbane City and colloquially referred to as 'the city', is the heart of the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane State High School

Brisbane State High School (BSHS or often commonly State High or High) is a partially selective, co-educational, state secondary school, located in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Cranford (novel)

Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland)

The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries is a department of the Queensland Government which aims to maximise the economic potential for Queensland's primary industries on a sustainable basis through strategic industrial development.

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Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales

Elizabeth Bay is a harbourside suburb in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.

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Elizabeth Harrower (writer)

Elizabeth Harrower (born 8 February 1928 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.

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Elizabeth Jolley

Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there.

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Gayndah

Gayndah is a town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Helen Garner

Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Laura Jones (screenwriter)

Laura Jones (born 1951) is an Australian screenwriter.

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Lever Brothers

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by brothers William Hesketh Lever (1851–1925) and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916).

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Martin Boyd

Martin à Beckett Boyd (10 June 1893 – 3 June 1972) was an Australian writer born into the à Beckett–Boyd family, a family synonymous with the establishment, the judiciary, publishing and literature, and the visual arts since the early 19th century in Australia.

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Meanjin

Meanjin is an Australian literary journal.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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Moreton Bay

The Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979.

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Olga Masters

Olga Masters née Lawler (28 May 1919 – 27 September 1986) was an Australian writer, journalist, novelist and short story writer, Masters' children went on to be notable figures in journalism, media and film making.

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Patrick Logan

Captain Patrick Logan (1791 – October 1830) was the commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement from 1826 until his death in 1830 at the hands of Aboriginal Australians who objected to him entering their lands.

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Potts Point, New South Wales

Potts Point is a small and densely populated suburb of inner-city Sydney, Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Age Book of the Year

The Age Book of the Year Awards were annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper.

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The Impersonators

The Impersonators (1980) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson.

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The Lady of Shalott

"The Lady of Shalott" is a ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), recounting The Lady's imprisonment in a tower, her escape and her eventual death.

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Tirra Lirra by the River

Tirra Lirra by the River is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yeronga Memorial Park

Yeronga Memorial Park is a heritage-listed park at Ipswich Road, Yeronga, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Yeronga State School

Yeronga State School is a heritage-listed state school at 150 Park Road, Yeronga, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Anderson

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