Bringing back forgotten women
Joyce Morgan, Jo Oliver, Dymphna Stella Rees with Caroline Baum
Date:  Saturday 9 October 2021
Time: 10.00 - 11.00 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
Well-known one minute, gone the next. Three writers uncover lives which should be better known, those of Elizabeth von Arnim, Jessie Trail and Coralie Clarke Rees in her partnership with Leslie Rees.
Participants
Joyce Morgan is a former arts editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, a journalist and author of Journeys on the Silk Road. British-born and Sydney-based, she has worked as a journalist in London, Hong Kong and Sydney and has written on arts and culture for more than two decades.
Jo Oliver is a writer and printmaker. She holds a Master of Arts and has worked for many years in oral history and historical research. She has written and
illustrated four children’s picture books. Her love of the printmaking process was her initial connection with the work of Jessie Traill. Jo received a Creative Fellowship from the State Library Victoria to research and to write about Jessie Traill using her extensive papers held in the collection.
Picture
Photography by Joe Craig Black
Dymphna Stella Rees is the daughter of writers Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees and now manages her parents’ literary archive. Dymphna holds a Master’s Degree in Aboriginal Studies and postgraduate diplomas in education and counselling. She is an elected member of AIATSIS (the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies). For many years she was Principal Officer: English and Humanities in the New South Wales vocational education and training sector.
Journalist and presenter Caroline Baum is the author of Only: A Singular Memoir, and in April 2021 she launched her new podcast, Life Sentences, about contemporary biography. Caroline is a regular contributor to national media and her writing has also appeared in two anthologies: My Mother My Father and Rebellious Daughters. She is the recipient of the Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2015 and is the Ambassador for the Older Womens Network (NSW). Caroline lives on the South Coast of NSW. 
Festival Program 2021