Marjorie Barnard
Australian novelist and short story writer
Died when: 89 years 265 days (1076 months)Star Sign: Leo
Marjorie Faith Barnard OAM (16 August 1897 – 8 May 1987) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian—and librarian.She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian.
She was employed as a librarian for two periods in her life (1923–1935 and 1942–1950), but her main passion was writing.Barnard met her collaborator, Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956), at the University of Sydney, and they published their first novel, A House is Built in 1929.
Their collaboration spanned the next two decades, and covered the full range of their writing: fiction, history and literary criticism.
They published under the pseudonym M.Barnard Eldershaw.Marjorie Barnard was a significant part of the literary scene in Australia between the wars and, for both her work as M.
Barnard Eldershaw and in her own right, is recognised as a major figure in Australian letters.
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