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Elizabeth O'Conner

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Elizabeth O'Conner
BornBarbara Willard Lowe
1913
Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia
Died6 May 2000(2000-05-06) (aged 86–87)
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Pen nameAnne Willard
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAustralian
Period1958–1989
Notable worksThe Irishman
Steak for Breakfast
Notable awardsMiles Franklin Award, 1960

Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Willard Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.[1]

She married Philip Birmingham McNamara, manager of a cattle station in March 1942[2] and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children.[3] She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.

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Novels

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  • The Irishman (1960)
  • Find a Woman (1963)
  • The Chinee Bird (1966)
  • The Winds of Fate (1977) - published under the pseudonym Anne Willard
  • Spirit Man (1980)
  • Darling Caroline (1980) - published under the pseudonym Anne Willard

Autobiography

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  • Steak for Breakfast (1958)
  • A Second Helping (1969)

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Austlit - Elizabeth O'Conner
  2. ^ "Marriage - Barbara Willard Lowe". www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  3. ^ Australian Women's Weekly 03.12.1958
  4. ^ "When "The Irishman" came to town". The Australian Women's Weekly, 29 March 1978, p11. Retrieved 4 July 2023.