My accidental career
Niall, Brenda2022
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My Accidental Career spans nine decades, from her childhood in the Melbourne suburb of Kew-where powerful neighbours included prime minister Menzies, millionaire gambler John Wren and Archbishop Daniel Mannix-to her university days, her first job writing reviews for a magazine and her travels in Ireland after breaking off her engagement to a suitable young man. It's a lively account of academic life at the newly established Monash University in the 1960s, a time when women were rare in university departments and even more rarely promoted, the snakes and ladders ups and downs of her time in the US, and of her charting new territory in Australian biography with acclaimed works on artists, writers and leaders.
Main title:
My accidental career / Brenda Niall.
Author:
Niall, Brenda, author
Imprint:
Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2022.©2022
Collation:
293 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781922458148 (paperback)
Dewey class:
907.202 NIA907.202
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
47535
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