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A brilliant portrait of an unhappy marriage

by Penny Russell
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The ABR Podcast 28 September 2023

A brilliant portrait of an unhappy marriage

by Penny Russell
by
The ABR Podcast 28 September 2023

Penny Russell

 


 

This week on the ABR Podcast historian Penny Russell reviews Kate Grenville’s new book, a fictional account of her maternal grandmother. In Restless Dolly Maunder, Grenville reckons with the life of a woman who left no written records but whose memory she carries from her childhood. Penny Russell is Professor Emerita at The University of Sydney and an historian of families, intimacy, and social encounters. Listen to Penny Russell’s ‘Mirrors on misery: A brilliant portrait of an unhappy marriage’, published in the September issue of ABR.

 


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