The Text Publishing Company Swann House 22 William Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 AustraliaĬopyright © Elizabeth Harrower 1966 Introduction copyright © Joan London 2012Įvery effort has been made to trace copyright holders and obtain permission for the use of copyright material. Proudly supported by Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, and is without doubt among the most important writers of the postwar period in Australia. Her work is austere, intelligent, ruthless in its perceptions about men and women. Harrower published no more novels, though she continued to write short fiction. Between 19 she worked in publishing, for Macmillan. In 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney. In 1959 she returned to Sydney, where she began working for the ABC and as a book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her first novel, Down in the City, was published in 1957 and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. She travelled extensively and began to write fiction. ELIZABETH HARROWER was born in Sydney in 1928 but her family soon relocated to Newcastle, where she lived until she was eleven.
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