Marilla North (also Marilla Wilson and Marilla Eidlitz) is a biographer and cultural historian, working in Australian women’s literary history.[1]
Marilla North | |
|---|---|
 Marilla North, Prague 1995 | |
| Born | Marilla North 1945 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | 2001 Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award for Biography – winner |
| Website | http://www.yarnspinners.com.au/ |
Early life
editNorth's book of poetry Blue Glass and Turtle Eggs was published in 1975.[2]
With Ferencz Eidlitz, she exhibited an experimental design of her poetry in Canberra Theatre.[3]
Career
editNorth organised music events for the Richmond Grove Winery in the Hunter Valley.[4]
From 2000, North taught Australian literature at Boston University's Sydney Programme.[5] In 2014 she was awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship at the University of Queensland.[5]
In 2001, she published Yarn Spinners, an experimental biographical text of friendship, politics and literature woven through the letters between Cusack and two other contemporary writers Miles Franklin and Florence James.[6] She later created Yarnspinners Press Collective with her husband. In 2017, she published a significantly revised and expanded second edition of Yarn Spinners.[7]
Publications
editBooks
edit- 1975: Blue Glass and Turtles Eggs, Jacaranda Press[8]
- 2001: Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters University of Queensland Press[9]
- 2016: Yarn Spinners: A Story of Friendship, Politics and a Shared Commitment to a Distinctive Australian Literature, Woven Through the Letter of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, and Their Congenials, Revised and expanded second edition, Brandle and Schlesinger, Sydney[10]
- 2017: Come in Dymphna : The Life and Loves of Dymphna Cusack, Brandl and Schlesinger[11]
- 2019: Singing Back the River, Yarnspinners Press Collective[12]
- 2024: Remembering Dorothy co-written with Joe Flood, Deluge Publishing[13]
Editor
edit- 2005: Co-editor with Prof Elizabeth Webby, "Australian and International Feminisms 1975–2005: Where We've Been and Where We're Going" Special Edition of Social Alternatives 24 (2)[14]
- 2015: “Dymphna Cusack and the Hunter” in Bennett, J (ed) Radical Newcastle (New South Press) pp 144–151.
Awards
edit- 2001 Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award for Biography – winner for Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters[15]
References
edit- ^ "Austlit — Marilla North". Austlit. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Elegant musing". Canberra Times. 16 January 1976. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "News for Women". Canberra Times. 24 October 1973. p. 13.
- ^ Blanks, Fred (20 July 1990). "Anyone for dry sherry and a Bach fugue?". Australian Jewish News. p. 20.
- ^ a b ""We Are the Sons Dymphna Cusack"". Hecate, Vol 42 No 1. ProQuest 1868263293. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ ""Marilla North ed, Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters. Dymphna Cusack and Florence James, Miles Franklin, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2001"". JAS Review of Books, October 2001. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ Pierce, Peter (17 February 2018). "Yarn Spinners: letters of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James and Miles Franklin". The Australian. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Blue Glass and Turtles Eggs by Marilla North". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters by Marilla North". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Yarn Spinners: A Story of Friendship, Politics and a Shared Commitment to a Distinctive Australian Literature, Woven Through the Letter of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, and Their Congenials by Marilla North". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Come in Dymphna : The Life and Loves of Dymphna Cusack by Marilla North". Austlit. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Singing Back the River by Marilla North". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Remembering Dorothy by Marilla North and Joe Flood". Austlit. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Social Alternatives 24 co-edited by Marilla North and Elizabeth Webby". Austlit. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Marilla North – Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 28 November 2024.