Marilla North
| Marilla North | |
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| Born | Marilla North Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
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| 🌐 Website | http://www.yarnspinners.com.au/ |
Marilla North (also Marilla Wilson and Marilla Eidlitz) is a biographer and cultural historian, working in Australian women’s literary history.
Early life
North's book of poetry Blue Glass and Turtle Eggs was published in 1975.[1]
At an art opening in early 1974, North met the winner of the first Churchill Award, Ferencz Eidlitz (1923–1997).[2] Eidlitz was a Hungarian graphic designer of the Bauhaus school who had regular showings throughout Australia, in New York and Europe.[3] With Eidlitz, she exhibited an experimental design of her poetry in Canberra Theatre.[4]
Career
North moved to the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in 1992 and managed Muse Inc., organizing music events.[5]
From 2000, North taught Australian literature at Boston University's Sydney Programme.[6] In 2014, she became a graduate fellow at the University of Queensland.[6]
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.[7][dead link] She later created Yarnspinners Press Collective with her husband. In 2017, she published a significantly revised and expanded second edition of Yarn Spinners.[8]
Publications
Books
- 1975: Blue Glass and Turtle Eggs. Jacaranda Press.
- 2001: Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters. University of Queensland Press. Winner of the 2001 Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award for Biography.
- 2017: 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.
- 2019: Singing Back the River. A chapbook in honour of Vera Deacon. Yarnspinners Press Collective.
Editor
- 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).
- 2015: “Dymphna Cusack and the Hunter” in Bennett, J (ed) Radical Newcastle (New South Press) pp 144–151.
References
- ↑ "Elegant musing". Canberra Times. 1976-01-16. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ "Re:collection | Frank Eidlitz". recollection.com.au. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ↑ Jones, Stephen (2015-05-18). "Frank Eidlitz: Design and the Origins of Computer Graphics in Australia". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. 10: 165–181. doi:10.1080/14434318.2009.11432607.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Yarn Spinners – About the Author". Brandl & Schlesinger. 2017. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
- ↑ Murray, Simone (27 August 2001). "Review of Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters". M/C Reviews. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ↑ Pierce, Peter (17 February 2018). "Yarn Spinners: letters of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James and Miles Franklin". The Australian. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
Further reading
- "Marilla North". www.austlit.edu.au. AustLit.
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