{"id":4023,"date":"2023-05-31T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T03:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2023-11-10T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:44:54","slug":"the-centenary-of-elizabeth-jolley-1923-2007-legacy-of-a-curtin-literary-great-exhibition-now-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/the-centenary-of-elizabeth-jolley-1923-2007-legacy-of-a-curtin-literary-great-exhibition-now-on\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Centenary of Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007): Legacy of a Curtin Literary Great <\/em>exhibition now on!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our new exhibition celebrates the centenary of Elizabeth Jolley, showcasing our unique collection of items related to her life and literary works, and honouring her deep connections to Â鶹ֱ²¥. Elizabeth Jolley, who died in 2007, would have turned one hundred on 4 June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230601_074713507-1920x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4027\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Jolley was a giant of Australian literature in the 1980s and 1990s, a critically acclaimed, bestselling author of quirky novels which combined \u2018mirth and malice\u2019. Her first book was not published until she was 53, but over the next 25 years she published over twenty books, includingthe 1986 winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, <em>The Well. <\/em>Jolley taught creative writing at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (which became Â鶹ֱ²¥) from the late 1970s, and her legacy is recognised on campus through the naming of the Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre. In 1987 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Technology and in 1998 she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights of the exhibition include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230601_074551929-1920x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4026\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quirky notes Elizabeth Jolley wrote to her typist of forty years, Nancy McKenzie, with whom the library recorded an oral history interview for the centenary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A plate Jolley painted for a charity auction in the 1990s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jolley\u2019s academic bonnet, worn for the presentation of her WAIT honorary doctorate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rare editions of Jolley\u2019s books, including foreign language translations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A film poster, theatre tickets, and reviews annotated in Jolley\u2019s hand, all collected by Curtin academics Brian Dibble and Barbara Milech as part of their comprehensive Elizabeth Jolley Research Collection, developed over decades and now held as a Library Special Collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230601_074625061-1920x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4028\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the exhibition on level 3 of <a href=\"https:\/\/link.mazemap.com\/XgR3LA2Y\">TL Robertson Library (Building 105)<\/a> until the end of August, or follow our weekly blog posts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/jolley-exhibition\">Library blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition is presented by Â鶹ֱ²¥ Library with the generous support of University Archives, who have loaned many items for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new exhibition showcasings our unique collection of items related to her life and literary works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-elizabeth-jolley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}