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BRENDA NIALL ON ARTHUR BOYD by NIALL BRENDA
$14.95 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Melbourne University Press Masterworks S.
The brilliant painter, Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt from Brenda Niall's prize-winning study, "The Boyds", reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into a ...Show more
Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother's Story by Brenda Niall
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was w ...Show more
Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman. Friends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of E ...Show more
Georgiana: Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda Niall
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After a childhood among artists, French emigres and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands.A gifted portraitist, professionally trained in London, she earned her own living in Edinburgh before making the choice between marriage and a ...Show more
Judy Cassab by NIALL Brenda
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary story of a woman who overcame living in the shadow of the holocaust to become one of Australia's most celebrated artists, told by Australia's most awarded biographer.
Judy Cassab: A Portrait by Brenda Niall
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Judy Cassab conquered the Australian art world at a time when women artists were struggling for serious attention. Twice the winner of the Archibald Prize in the 1960s, Cassab is today one of Australia's foremost painters, celebrated for her haunting desert landscapes as well as her portraits. But even ...Show more
Mannix by Brenda Niall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected ...Show more
Mannix (HB) by Brenda Niall
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected d ...Show more
My Accidental Career by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Australia's leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career Brenda Niall, arguably Australia's foremost biographer, looks back on her own life and the circumstances, events and choices that shaped her ...Show more
The Boyds by Brenda Niall
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie a Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are talented painters, potters, sculptors, architects and writers, several of international standing. This 'family biography' by award-winn ...Show more
The Boyds: A Family Biography by Brenda Niall
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A portrait of the Boyd family, one of Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasties. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie a Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are talented painters, potters, sculptors, architects and writers, several of international standing.