WEST AUSTRALIANA AUSTRALIAN FAUNA AGRICULTURE
A delightful, humorous and moving mixture of personal observation and poetry, Diary of a Weekend Farmer is based upon Elizabeth Jolley’s own record of life on the land.
Elizabeth Jolley was born Monica Elizabeth Knight in Birmingham, England on June 4, 1923. She was educated privately until age 11, when she was sent to Sibford School, a Quaker boarding school. At 17 she began training as nurse in London and was exposed firsthand to the horrors of World War II. She emigrated to Australia in 1959 with her husband and their three children. Before becoming a full-time author, she had numerous jobs including nursing, housecleaning, and farming. She published her first book of short stories, Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories, in 1976, and her first novel, Palomino, in 1980. Her other works included The Newspaper of Claremont Street, Mr. Scobie’s Riddle, The Well, My Father’s Moon, Miss Peabody’s Inheritance, Foxybaby, and The Sugar Mother. She died on February 13, 2007 at the age of 83.
95 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm. First Edition #250523
Farmers’ spouses — Poetry.