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Blackburn, Rosemary, 1925-1994
Wighton, Rosemary Neville, 1925-1994
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nuc86-83033: Her Early Australian children's literature, 1979 (hdg. on CaBVaU rept.: Wighton, Rosemary; usage: Rosemary Wighton)
AustLit, viewed 15 March 2016 (Rosemary Wighton (a.k.a. Rosemary Neville Wighton). Born: 6 Jan 1925 Adelaide, South Australia ; Died: 7 Feb 1994 Adelaide, South Australia. Gender: Female. Biography: Rosemary Wighton ... went to The Wilderness School, then graduated from the University of Adelaide with a BA Hons, tutoring in English in 1946 and tutoring part-time from 1950-58 ... With Max Harris she established the first Australian Book Review, and edited it 1961-71 ... She wrote on Australian children's literature, publishing her pioneering work Early Australian Children's Literature in 1963. She lectured in the English Dept of the Salisbury CAE (1971-79) and was Senior Lecturer 1977-79. Rosemary enjoyed a distinguished public career in service to a number of South Australian bodies ... She was awarded an AO in 1990. She wrote for her children and grandchildren the story of the Blackburn family, Peeling the Onion: The Story of a Family (1993), and was working on her autobiography when she died of cancer in February 1994) http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A8844
It's an honour, viewed 15 March 2016 (Name: Wighton, Rosemary Neville. Award: Officer of the Order of Australia. Post-nominal: AO. Date granted: 13 June 1988. State: SA. Suburb: Gilbertson ... Citation: AO QB 1988. For public service, to literature and to the community) http://itsanhonour.gov.au