Elizabeth Jolley
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an Englishborn writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three nonfiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many wellknown writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.
Jolley was born in Birmingham, England as Monica Elizabeth Knight, to an English father and Austrianborn mother who was the daughter of a high ranking Railways official. She grew up in the Black Country in the English industrial Midlands. She was educated privately until age 11, when she was sent to Sibford School, a Quaker boarding school near Banbury in Oxfordshire which she attended from 1934 to 1940.
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