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Tanya Dalziell

Tanya Dalziell

Tanya Dalziell is Chair of the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia and the author, with Paul Genoni, of Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 (2018).

Tanya Dalziell reviews ‘Searching for Charmian’ by Suzanne Chick

June 2025, no. 476 26 May 2025
The new edition of Searching for Charmian, Suzanne Chick’s autobiographical account of discovering her birth mother’s identity, is published at a moment when the reputations of two of the book’s subjects are in their ascendency. The book was first published in 1994. With its publication, Chick emerged from what she saw as a quiet life into the public spotlight. She eloquently told of her di ... (read more)