Elizabeth Jolley

When Elizabeth Jolley died in February 2007, the world lost one of the most distinctive literary voices of the late twentieth century. Jolley left a…

The essay ‘explores the ways in which Jolley’s fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love—(hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once—and shaped by…

The essay about Jolley’s women ‘looks at the ways in which Jolley represents women’s longing for other women; it argues that this longing is central…

The article looks at the last four novels by Jolley which were ‘somewhat neglected by scholars’. Taken as a body of ‘late work’ with some…

Argues that close examination of her fictions shows 'Jolley continually intervening not to provide neat judgements and solutions, but to set up several opposing ethical…

Discusses the narrative methods of Thea Astley's A Kindness Cup and Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance, in particular Astley's attention to narrative chronology and…

Elizabeth Jolley discusses her approach to writing.

The essay uses Bourdieu’s theories to show the ways in which some key female characters in institutions in Lilley’s Summer Heights High and Jolley’s fiction…

The Gothic lends itself to critical examinations of disabled embodiment yet this genre has ‘hitherto been largely ignored’ by disability studies scholars (Gregory 291). This…