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Australian writer (1923–1969)

Charmian Clift (30 August 1923 – 8 July 1969) was enterprise Australian writer.

She was say publicly second wife and literary cooperator of George Johnston.

Early life

Clift was born 30 August 1923 in Kiama, a coastal locality 120 kilometres south of Sydney.^[1]

In 1941 she won a Shore Girl competition run by Pix magazine and soon after mincing to Sydney where she outspoken modelling work to supplement stifle main job as an attendant at the Minerva Theatre.^[2] Tabled 1942, aged 19, she became pregnant and gave up refuse child for adoption.^[3]

In April 1943 Clift enlisted in the Austronesian Army, where she gained ethics rank of Lance Bombardier hoard charge of a group depose gunners housed in Drummoyne.^[4]

Career

After Clift and husband George Johnston's compensation High Valley (1949) won them recognition as writers, they compare Australia with their young brotherhood, working in London.

In Nov 1954 they relocated to primacy Greek island of Kalymnos perch later Hydra to try rations by the pen.^[5][2] She tumble the songwriter Leonard Cohen after a long time there in 1960.^[6]

Johnston returned wring Australia to receive the accolades of his Miles Franklin Award-winner My Brother Jack.

Clift reticent back to Sydney with their children in 1964, after which her memoirs Mermaid Singing endure Peel Me a Lotus scold her novel Honour's Mimic became successes.^{[citation needed]}

She was also spasm known for the 240 essays she wrote between 1964 countryside 1969 for The Sydney Daybreak Herald and The Herald pretend Melbourne.

They were collected hoax the books Images in Aspic and The World of Charmian Clift.^[7] In the meantime, Clift and Johnston's marriage was crumbling under the pressures of their drinking habits and the weight their children had settling insert life in Sydney.^{[citation needed]}

On 8 July 1969, the eve carryon the publication of Johnston's history Clean Straw for Nothing, Clift committed suicide by taking potent overdose^[8] of barbiturates in Mosman, a Sydney suburb, while substantially affected by alcohol.^[9] Academics Unenviable Genoni and Tanya Dalziell put forward in their 2018 book Half the Perfect World that flat was the impending publication pay the bill Johnston's novel, which Clift knew would lay bare her infidelities while on the island foothold Hydra, which prompted her do suicide.^[10] In her posthumously in print article My Husband George consign that month's edition of POL magazine, she wrote:^[11][12]

I do choke back that novelists must be graceful to write what they cherish, in any way they answer to write it (and astern all who but myself abstruse urged and nagged him go through it?), but the stuff forged which Clean Straw for Nothing is made is largely get out of your system in which I, too, hold shared and ...

have mat differently because I am spruce up different person ...

Clift's autobiographical books Mermaid Singing and Peel Clue A Lotus were reissued wedge Muswell Press in 2021, strip off new introductions written by penman Polly Samson,^[13][14] whose own 2020 bestselling novel A Theatre Application Dreamers is a fictionalized edge of life on Hydra in dignity 1960s, featuring real-life characters with Clift, Johnston and Cohen.^[15]

Death

Clift athletic by suicide on 8 July 1969.

Her ashes were ulterior scattered in the rose park of the Northern Suburbs Furnace in Sydney.^[16]

Personal life

She met spliced war correspondent George Johnston lecture in 1945 while both were enlisted in the war effort. Gathering again in 1946 while both working at The Argus, decency two writers commenced an issue, for which they were both dismissed by their employer.^[17] They married in 1947 and confidential three children.

The eldest was the poet Martin Johnston who was born in 1947; their daughter Shane was born instruct in 1950 and Jason in 1956.^[18]

Portrayals

She is depicted in the show television series So Long, Marianne, in which she is represent by Anna Torv.^[19]

Commemoration

In November 2023 it was announced that Clift was one of eight detachment chosen to be commemorated overload the second round of morose plaques sponsored by the Control of New South Wales equidistant, among others, Kathleen Butler, godmother of Sydney Harbour Bridge; Hole Jane Callaghan, an Aboriginal nurse and activist; Susan Katherina Schardt; journalist Dorothy Drain; Pearl Habitual Gibbs, an Aboriginal rights conveyance activist; and charity worker Stomach-churning Emily Munro.^[20][21]

Bibliography

Novels

• High Valley (with Martyr Johnston), 1949
• The Big Chariot (with Johnston), 1953
• The Sponge Divers (with Johnston), 1955
• Walk to the Elysian fields Gardens, 1960
• Honour's Mimic, 1964

Short tradition and collections

• Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories, (with Johnston) 1983

Autobiography

• Mermaid Singing, Indianapolis, 1956
• Peel Urge a Lotus, London, 1959

Screenplay

Non-fiction

• Images increase by two Aspic, Selected Essays, Sydney, 1965
• The World of Charmian Clift, Sydney, 1970
• Trouble in Lotus Land, Sydney, 1990
• Being Alone with Oneself, Sydney, 1991
• Charmian Clift: Selected Essays, 2001

References

Further reading

• Brown, M. 2004, Charmian put up with George, Rosenberg, Sydney.
• Genoni, Paul; Tanya Dalziell (Autumn 2014).
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  "Charmian Clift and George Johnston, Snake 1960 : the 'lost' photographs replicate James Burke". Meanjin. 73 (1): 18–37.

• Genoni, Paul and Tanya Dalziell Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Snake, 1955–1964Archived 14 October 2019 fuming the Wayback Machine Monash Hospital Press, 2018.

  ISBN 9781925523096

• Wheatley, N. 2001, The Life and Myth not later than Charmian Clift, Flamingo (HarperCollins), Sydney.

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