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(birth name:
Harris, Margaret Gwendoline
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(a.k.a.
Coombs, Margaret
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Born: 1945 Mudgee, New South Wales
Died: 3 Jun 2004 Sydney, New South Wales
Gender: Female
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Margaret Coombs was born of Jewish, Prussian, German and English descent on her father's side and has written of the importance for her writing of her 'problematical Jewish background'. Her father was a country doctor, and she spent her early years in Mudgee, a town later fictionalised as Narramundi in Regards to the Czar. When the family moved to Sydney she attended Kambala Church of England Girls' School, and later Sydney University, where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Governme....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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22 Oct 2009