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Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright.[1]
Personal life
Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Armidale, New South Wales[2] and graduated from the University of Sydney with an honours degree in arts and a diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher until she retired in 1944 for health reasons. Her illness was confirmed in 1978 as multiple sclerosis.[1] She died at Manly, New South Wales on 19 October 1981.
Career
Cusack wrote twelve novels (two of which were collaborations), eleven plays,[3] three travel books, two children's books and one non-fiction book. Her collaborative novels were Pioneers on Parade (1939) with Miles Franklin, and Come In Spinner (1951) with Florence James.[4]
The play Red Sky at Morning was filmed in 1944, starring Peter Finch.[5] The biography Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, to which Cusack wrote an introduction and helped the author write, was produced as the film Caddie in 1976. The novel Come In Spinner was produced as a television series by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1989, and broadcast in March 1990.[6]
Family
Her younger brother, John, was also an author, writing the war novel They Hosed Them Out under the pseudonym John Beede, which was first published in 1965; an expanded edition under the author's real name, John Bede Cusack, was published in 2012 by Wakefield Press, edited and annotated by Robert Brokenmouth.[7]
Activism
Cusack advocated social reform and described the need for reform in her writings. She contributed to the world peace movement during the Cold War era as an antinuclear activist.[1] She and her husband Norman Freehill were members of the Communist Party and they left their entire estates to the Party in their wills.[8]
Contribution and recognition
Cusack was a foundation member of the Australian Society of Authors in 1963. She had refused an Order of the British Empire,[1] but was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1981 for her contribution to Australian literature.[9]
In 2011, Cusack was one of 11 authors, including Elizabeth Jolley and Manning Clark, to be permanently recognised by the addition of brass plaques at the Writers' Walk, Sydney.[10]
Plays
- Safety First, 1927
- Shallow Cups, 1933
- Anniversary, 1935
- Red Sky at Morning, performed 1935; published 1942
- Morning Sacrifice, 1943
- Comets Soon Pass, 1943
- Call Up Your Ghosts, with Miles Franklin, 1945
- Stand Still Time, 1946
- Pacific Paradise, 1955
Novels
- Jungfrau (1936)
- Pioneers on Parade (1939) with Miles Franklin
- Come In Spinner (1951) with Florence James
- Say No to Death (1951)
- Southern Steel (1953)
- Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid (1953) [Introduction only]
- The Sun in Exile (1955)
- Heatwave in Berlin (1961)
- Picnic Races (1962)
- Black Lightning (1964)
- The Sun is Not Enough (1967)
- The Half-Burnt Tree (1969)
- A Bough in Hell (1971)
Radio plays
- Lure of the Inland Sea (1945)
- Mary Reibey (1947)
- Shoulder the Sky
- Exit
- The Golden Girls
Nonfiction
- Chinese Women Speak. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1958.
- Holidays Among the Russians. Heinemann. London. 1964.
- Illyria Reborn. Heinemann. London. 1966.
- Mary Gilmore A Tribute. Australasian Book Society. London. 1965.
- A Window in the Dark. National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1991.
Children's literature
- Kanga-Bee and Kanga-Bo. Botany House. Sydney. 1945.
- Four Winds and a Family with Florence James. Shakespeare Head Press. London. 1947.
References
Sources
- Dymphna Cusack bibliography
- North, Marilla. (2007) "Cusack, Ellen Dymphna (Nell) (1902–1981)". Entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
- Spender, Dale (1988) Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers, London: Pandora
Further reading
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Шаблон:Citation
- ↑ [1] Шаблон:Webarchive, middlemiss.org; retrieved 22 March 2008.
- ↑ Шаблон:Citation pp.68-78.
- ↑ Spender (1988) p. 219
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- ↑ IMDB – Come In Spinner (1990)
- ↑ Шаблон:Citation
- ↑ Peter Coleman, "Memento Moscow", Weekend Australian, 16–17 January 1999, Review, p. 10
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ "Tribute to Literary Greats on Sydney Writers’ Walk", 24 October 2011; retrieved 10 April 2012.
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