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By permission of the NLA	Jolley, Elizabeth (258 works by) (birth name: Knight, Monica Elizabeth) (a.k.a. Jolley, Monica Elizabeth) Born: 4 Jun 1923 Birmingham, West Midlands, England Died: 13 Feb 2007 Perth, Western Australia Gender: Female Heritage: English Arrived in Australia: 1959 Archives: Search for literary archives for Jolley, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Jolley was born in Birmingham, in the industrial midlands of England, in 1923, the daughter of an English father and a Viennese mother. Until the age of eleven she was educated privately at home, then attended a Quaker boarding school and did nursing training in London where she experienced not only the effects of war on the wounded soldiers but also some aspects of institutional life. This experience, as well as the family tensions caused by the pacifist values of her father and the s....

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