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Heather Grant Heather Grant i(A58232 works by) (birth name: Heather Mary Sinclair Griffin)
Born: Established: 1931 Gordonvale, Gordonvale area, Babinda - Gordonvale area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
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Heather Grant worked as a primary school teacher and as a librarian, then, on resigning from the library, took a glove puppet show around the New South Wales outback for three years. She moved to England, where she performed in the pantomime 'Jamie' for two years, taught, and held puppet shows.

She returned to Australia to take up a tour of her puppets in South Australia, and met and married John Grant, also a puppeteer. They both performed in the 'Here's Humphrey Show' for three years, with Heather writing the scripts and her husband making handcarved marionettes and props.

With the birth of their son they gave up puppeteering in order to provide a settled environment for their son's education . Heather returned to teaching and John went to work at the Art School but they maintained their links with puppetry through the Noarlunga Puppetry Guild. Heather has also written play scripts and some verse.

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History and Memory in the Tasmanian Public Library 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 6 no. 1 2009; (p. 10.1-10.2) Although public libraries have been generally characterised in academic literature as repositories of public memory along with museums and archives, little specific work has been undertaken in Australia into how the public library performs this roles, and how the public library influences, or responds to, the development of historical consciousness and the vicissitudes of social memory within its community. This article considers these questions through a case study of the Tasmanian Public Library in Hobart and a particularly culturally significant text, The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land: From the Colonial Times (1829) by Hugh Savery. The circumstances surrounding the acquisition and the subsequent disposal of a copy of The Hermit by the Tasmanian Public Library are examined, in the context of the contested and changing value placed on the text by the institution and members of the community through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Source: Heather Gaunt.
2008 Inaugural winner AHA-CAL Postgraduate History Prize
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