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Jill Burton

Jill Burton

Jill Burton is an associate research professor affiliated to the Universities of South Australia and Adelaide. Having worked as an applied linguist and language teacher educator for some years, she is now researching some women who made history.

Jill Burton reviews 'Cynthia Nolan: A biography' by M.E. McGuire

January–February 2017, no. 388 19 December 2016
When times were difficult, Cynthia Reed Nolan ‘drew the veil’. Born in Evandale in 1908, the youngest of six children, Cynthia always sought distance. From an early age, like siblings Margaret and John, she longed to escape from Tasmania. Oddly, however, this was not what John Reed expected of her. Such anomalies make this biography, which foregrounds her life before she became Cynthia Nolan, ... (read more)