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Ann Moyal Ann Moyal i(A84390 works by) (a.k.a. Ann Mozley)
Born: Established: 23 Feb 1926 Northbridge, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 22 Jul 2019 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
Gender: Female
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1 Telecommunications Ann Moyal , single work companion entry
1 The Female Gaze : Australian Women Historians’ Autobiographies Ann Moyal , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Clio’s Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians 2017; (p. 65-80)

'A striking number of Australian women have ventured into the autobiographical genre. While a slew of immigrant men were producing their personal odysseys of pioneering endeavour and the exploration and appropriation of a new land in the nineteenth century, a regiment of women from diverse backgrounds began to record their remembered experiences and specific local responses to colonial life. The women’s stories were very different. Franker, relational, concerned with childhood, people and places, some masquerading as regional or local history, in a strongly masculine society they were often judged as ‘unimportant’ or ‘trivial’ and not given publication at the time of writing. But they came to lay the foundation of ‘a complementary culture’ to male autobiography with its ongoing emphasis on national identity and image, and they have been judged by literary and historical scholars as a rich and unique reading experience.'  (Introduction)

1 Our Man Elsewhere Review: The Forgotten Brilliance of Alan Moorehead Ann Moyal , 2016 single work
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 April 2016;

— Review of Our Man Elsewhere : In Search of Alan Moorehead Thornton McCamish , 2016 single work biography
'Expatriate Alan Moorehead was Australia's most famous writer of the 1950s and '60s. An international celebrity, his books spilling into millions, the subject of several biographies (my own among them) he has, unlike that exuberant trio Clive James, Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries, who fixed their names in Britain some three decades later, dropped from view among younger readers in his own country. ...'
1 Writing with the Gift of Sound and Vision Ann Moyal , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 April - 1 May 2016; (p. 26) The Saturday Age , 30 April - 1 May 2016; (p. 26)

— Review of Our Man Elsewhere : In Search of Alan Moorehead Thornton McCamish , 2016 single work biography
1 Moorehead, Alan McCrae Ann Moyal , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : M 2014; (p. 278-279)
1 Telecommunications Ann Moyal , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : T 2014; (p. 459-461)
1 Brown, Sir Harry Percy (1878-1967) Ann Moyal , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : B 2014; (p. 76)
1 3 y separately published work icon A Woman of Influence : Science, Men & History Ann Moyal , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2014 7039208 2014 single work autobiography

'Historian Ann Moyal has led a fascinating life. As a young adult she was the research assistant to Lord Beaverbrook – a vibrant British political player during the World Wars. In her sixties, Ann believed she had told her life story when she published the autobiographical Breakfast with Beaverbrook. But – inspired by the bemoaned lack of interesting late-life stories – Ann decided to recount her rich later years.

'In A Woman of Influence Ann, now a Doctor of Letters, tells of her life’s work in Australian science history, and the many important people she met along the way. She also writes insightfully about our social and political challenges, and intimately about life’s great commonalities: love and loss.' (Publication blurb)

1 Mediterranean Man Ann Moyal , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 315 2009; (p. 37-38)
1 The Lyons Den Ann Moyal , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 9-10)

— Review of J. A. Lyons, the Tame Tasmanian : Appeasement and Rearmament in Australia, 1932-39 David S. Bird , 2008 single work biography ; Enid Lyons : Leading Lady to a Nation Anne Henderson , 2008 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Allan Moorehead Ann Moyal , Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2007 7765223 2007 single work biography
1 Alan Moorehead : A Rediscovery Ann Moyal , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , September vol. 15 no. 12 2005; (p. 15-18)
1 5 y separately published work icon Alan Moorehead : A Rediscovery Ann Moyal , Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2005 Z1206530 2005 single work biography

'Half-a-century ago Alan Moorehead was one of Australia's most famous writers. He first made his name as an intrepid and eloquent World War Two correspondent, then as the biographer of Montgomery and Churchill. His widely-read historical works, fiction and travel writing drew critical and popular acclaim. Books such as African Trilogy, Gallipoli, The Fatal Impact and Darwin and the Beagle were re-printed many times and extensively translated. Yet, in spite of his major contribution to Australian and international history, Moorehead has largely fallen from public view.

'Ann Moyal's marvellous encapsulation of his life and work is therefore timely. The first of the national Library's new biography series, An Australian Life, Moyal brings this passionate writer and his era vividly to life and provides an informed assessment of Moorehead's last influence. ' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Breakfast with Beaverbrook : Memoirs of an Independent Woman Ann Moyal , Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1995 12994411 1995 single work autobiography

'Ann Moyal's is a life lived to the full, if at times unconventionally. Three-times married, she has always sought to balance her life as a woman with her varied career: working with the vivid and controversial Lord Beaverbrook, co-founding the Australian Dictionary of Biography, becoming a 'cause celebre' as an academic at Griffith University, and later choosing independence and emerging as a leading social historian of Australian science, telecommunication and technology.

'In Breakfast With Beaverbrook she has balanced an exploration of her early life and career highlights on the world's stage with the more complex strands of maturity and achievement.' (Publication summary)

2 2 y separately published work icon Truant Surgeon : The Inside Story of Forty Years of Australian Political Life Earle Page , Ann Moyal (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1963 Z1144946 1963 single work autobiography
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