The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

Jill Roe: Stella Miles Franklin: the South Australian dimension

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Professor Jill Roe on Thursday 19 March 2009 at 6.00 for 6.30pm.

Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation at the age of twenty-one with the publication of her novel, My Brilliant Career. She was also journalist, nationalist, feminist, larrikin, and founder of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award.

In her new book, Stella Miles Franklin: a biography, Jill Roe, AO, Professor Emerita of History at Macquarie University, rediscovers for us a life of enormous range never before examined in its totality.

Jill Roe is an authority on the life and work of Miles Franklin. She has published extensively in Australian social and cultural history, and has a particular interest in historical biography and women's history. She has served on numerous national bodies, most recently as Chair of the Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and is currently vice-president of the History Council of New South Wales.

Jill Roe will return to Adelaide at our invitation for this occasion.

Bookings by Tuesday 17 March to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited.

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

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