- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE5284
Roe, Jillian Isobel (Jill)
- AO
- Born 10 November 1940, Tumby Bay, South Australia, Australia
- Died 12 January 2017, Pearl Beach, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation Historian
Summary
Jill Roe was a distinguished Australian historian and academic who wrote an important biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. She published her memoir, Our Fathers Cleared the Bush, about her childhood on the Eyre Peninsula in 2016.
Read more about Jill Roe in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.
Events
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2007
Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
Archival resources
Published resources
- Book
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Article
- Jill Roe, Miles Franklin biographer, remembered as 'one of Australia's greatest historians', Torsh, Daniela, 2017, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-17/jill-roe-historian-dies-aged-76/8185528
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Resource
- Trove: Roe, Jill (1940-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617002
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders