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'There are two sorts of subjects that exercise particular allure to a biographer: those that do not want a biography written about them, and go to various lengths to thwart the efforts of a would-be biographer, and those who have written their own life story, or related aspects of that story, and for whom the telling of that story formed a significant part of their wider intellectual project. Judith Wright, as Georgina Arnott’s The Unknown Judith Wright reveals, fell into both categories.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Journal of Biography and History no. 3 April 2020 21209150 2020 periodical issue 'Australians have always been great travellers, not only internationally but between  Australian states and territories. Writing about Australian lives is thus a  biographical challenge when they transcend national and internal boundaries. It means that, when dealing with mobile subjects, biographers need to be nimble diachronically, because of changing locales over time, and synchronically because many Australians have not always seen themselves as bound to a particular place. Nonetheless, despite the problems of writing about mobile lives, the deft use of biography appeals as a means of examining individual life paths in their immediate contexts within the larger scales suggested by transnational historical practice. An abundance of books, edited volumes, and articles have followed individuals, families, and other collectives as they ‘career’ (to use the term adopted by Lambert and Lester in their influential 2006 volume, Colonial Lives Across the British Empire) around the globe.' (Malcolm Allbrook, Preface) 2020 pg. 191-195
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