Jill Roe
Australian historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jillian Isobel Roe, was an Australian historian and academic, who wrote a definitive biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. Early life and education Roe was born in 1940, at Tumby Bay, South Australia. Her grandparents had been early settlers of the western coast of South Australia. Her mother Edna Heath, a nurse, died before Roe was two years old, and she was raised on the Eyre Peninsula by her father John Roe, a farmer. At the age of 14, she attended Adelaide Girls' High School. Upon matriculating, she enrolled to study history at the University of Adelaide, and in 1963 moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, where she wrote her Master of Arts thesis on "intellectual life of the city of Melbourne between 1876 and 1886", under the supervision of Don Baker and Manning Clark.
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Published Works
- The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (1999) (92)
- Exploring historical thinking and agency with undergraduate history students (2011) (28)
- Chivalry and social policy in the antipodes (1987) (22)
- Historical Thinking in Higher Education (2009) (13)
- Historical thinking in higher education : an ALTC discipline-based initiative (2009) (12)
- Twentieth century Sydney: Studies in urban & social history (1980) (10)
- A Tale of Religion in Two Cities (1981) (8)
- Unemployment: Are there lessons from history? (1985) (7)
- Challenge and Response: Religious Life in Melbourne, 1876–86. (1968) (7)
- The Significant Silence: Miles Franklin's Middle Years (1980) (7)
- My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters (1994) (6)
- Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography (2008) (6)
- Testimonies from the field: The coming of Christian Science to Australia, c. 1890-1910 (1998) (6)
- The Europeans in Australia, a history, vol 1, The beginning (1998) (5)
- The Historical Imagination and Its Enemies: M. Barnard Eidershaw's 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' (1984) (4)
- Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary@@@A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writings of Miles Franklin (2001) (4)
- The world of miles Franklin (1994) (4)
- Australian Dictionary of Biography. Supplement 1580-1980 (2006) (3)
- The appeal of biography (1992) (3)
- Biography Today: A Commentary (2012) (3)
- Children and the state - social-control and the formation of Australian child-welfare - Vankrieken, R. (1993) (3)
- Forcing the Issue: Miles Franklin and Australian Identity (1991) (2)
- National Collaboration: The ADB Editorial Board and the Working Parties (2013) (2)
- ‘The Scope of Women’s Thought is Necessarily Less’ : The Case of Ada Cambridge (1972) (2)
- From Sydney to Boston and back in twenty‐five years, with an account of many strange and unexpected happenings along the way, or there's no place like home (1996) (2)
- Changing faces: Miles Franklin and photography (2004) (1)
- book reviews: No Charity There. A Short History of Social Welfare in Australia (1981) (1)
- Kay Daniels: 1941–2001 (2002) (1)
- The Historian as activist: Tom Stannage and the activism of history (2015) (1)
- Faith, hope and history in the year 2000 (2000) (1)
- Historiography in Melbourne in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties (1969) (1)
- Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin (2009) (1)
- The Australian welfare state; the condition of the people; no charity there (1981) (1)
- My Brilliant Career and 1890s Goulburn (2002) (1)
- Jill Roe interviewed by Robert Pascoe and Nikki Henningham in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia collection (2005) (0)
- AHA Prize and Award Winners (2010) (0)
- Ken Inglis in conversation with Jill Roe (2001) (0)
- Guide to the Papers and Works of Max Kelly (1999) (0)
- A decade of assessment : being a study in the intellectual life of the city of Melbourne between 1876 and 1886 (1965) (0)
- Duncan waterson and Macquarie University (2001) (0)
- Miles Franklin's topical writings: a listing. (2001) (0)
- AHA PRIZE AND AWARD WINNERS WINNERS 2009-2010 (2010) (0)
- Women and the Land (2004) (0)
- An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis (2014) (0)
- Independent spirits - spiritualism and English plebeians, 1850-1910 - Barrow, L. (1988) (0)
- Madge Dawson's Eightieth Birthday (1988) (0)
- Minding Her Own Businesss: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney (2016) (0)
- Revisiting the frontier, from Miles Franklin's Brindabella to South Australia's Eyre Peninsula (2013) (0)
- Passionate friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews : THE 'BIG FELLA'. JACK LANG AND THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY 1891-1949 By Bede Nairn. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1986, xiv + 369 pp, $35.00 (hardback) (1987) (0)
- The Australian Welfare State@@@Australian Social Security Today. Major Developments from 1900 to 1978@@@Public Expenditure and Social Policy in Australia@@@Poor Policies. Australian Income Security 1972-77 (1981) (0)
- Book review : 'An eye for eternity : the life of Manning Clark' (2012) (0)
- Dr Kay Daniels (2001) (0)
- Helmrich, Dorothy Jane Adele (1889 - 1984) (2007) (0)
- Dan Huon Coward, Out of sight… Sydney’s environmental history, 1851-1981 (Canberra: Department of Economic History, Australian National University, 1988. Pp. 328. $24.95.) (1991) (0)
- Obituary (1983) (0)
- 'I danced for the Queen' : exuberance and otherwise in regional history since the 1950s (2006) (0)
- Miles Franklin: a short biography: feminist, activist, literary legend (2018) (0)
- Six silly things people say about Miles Franklin (2007) (0)
- Library Legacies (2010) (0)
- Barnard, Marjorie (Marjory) Faith (1897-1987) (2007) (0)
- book reviews : Acta Sociologica 'Special Congress Issue: The Nordic Welfare States', Vol. 21. 1978, Supplement, pp. 242, S.kr. 77 ($17.30) from Universtetsforlaget. P.O. Box 7508, Skillibekk, Oslo 2, Norway (1980) (0)
- MARY MCINTOSH (1936–2013) (2013) (0)
- Manning Clark and the Church (2007) (0)
- Adelaide and the country : the literary dimension (2013) (0)
- Stella Miles Franklin : the South Australian dimension (2009) (0)
- A just society - essays on equity in Australia - Troy, P.N. (1982) (0)
- The Sydney history group : from the beginning (2013) (0)
- Theosophy [encyclopaedia entry] (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- Review by Jill Roe (1987) (0)
- Book review : 'Apollo in George Street : the life of David McKee Wright' (2014) (0)
- An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark [Book Review] (2012) (0)
- Review of An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss (2014) (0)
- Voluntary action and the rural poor in the age of globalization (2011) (0)
- Our Fathers Cleared the Bush (2016) (0)
- Donald William Archdall Baker, 1922–2007 (2007) (0)
- Two Awards from the History Council of new South Wales: Annual History Citation 2005: Emeritus Professor Bruce Mansfield (2005) (0)
- Our fathers cleared the bush: remembering Eyre Peninsula (2016) (0)
- Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell (2008) (0)
- A Shadowy figure? Bessie Rischbieth, theosophic feminist (2004) (0)
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