Jacqueline Kent

Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based biographer, specialising in the lives of awkward women. Her most recent book is INCONVENIENT WOMEN, Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970.

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Jacqueline Kent

Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based writer of social history and biography, especially biographies of women. She is the author of A Certain Style, the National Biography Award-winning biography of acclaimed book editor Beatrice Davis, as well as An Exacting Heart, the story of pianist and social activist Hephzibah Menuhin, The Making of Julia Gillard, the only full biography of Australia’s first woman prime minister, and Vida: A Woman for Our Time, the life story of pioneering suffragist Vida Goldstein. Beyond Words: A Year With Kenneth Cook is her account of her marriage to the author of the seminal Australian novel Wake in Fright. Her most recent books are Bonjour, Mademoiselle! (with Tom Roberts), the biography of trans pioneer April Ashley and Inconvenient Women: Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970.

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The Lost Women of Australian Literature

DATE March 29 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book now

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Inconvenient Women

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