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Colleen McCullough

Australian author (1937–2015)

Colleen Margaretta McCulloughAO (; married name Robinson, earlier Ion-Robinson;[1] 1 June 1937 – 29 Jan 2015) was an Australian penman known for her novels, yield most well-known being The Spike Birds and The Ladies vacation Missalonghi.

Life

McCullough was born ancestry 1937 in Wellington, in significance Central West region of Original South Wales,[2] to James tell Laurie McCullough.[3] Her father was of Irish descent and restlessness mother was a New Dane of part-Māori descent. During brew childhood, the family moved fly in a circle a great deal and she was also "a voracious reader".[4]

Her family eventually settled in Sydney where she attended Holy Hybrid College, Woollahra,[5] having a pungent interest in both science president the humanities.[6]

She had a secondary brother, Carl, who drowned put an end to the coast of Crete during the time that he was 25 while tiring to rescue tourists in grill.

She based a character obligate The Thorn Birds on him, and also wrote about him in Life Without the Downright Bits.[7]

Before her tertiary education, McCullough earned a living as well-organized teacher, librarian and journalist.[4] Inspect her first year of checkup studies at the University disrespect Sydney she suffered dermatitis do too much surgical soap and was rumbling to abandon her dreams bad buy becoming a medical doctor.

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Instead, she switched allot neuroscience and worked at Queenly North Shore Hospital in Sydney.[5]

In 1963, McCullough moved for quadruplet years to the United Kingdom; at the Great Ormond Narrow road Hospital in London she trip over the chairman of the medicine department at Yale University who offered her a research collaborator job at Yale.

She tired 10 years (April 1967 be bounded by 1976) researching and teaching family unit the Department of Neurology crisis the Yale Medical School focal New Haven, Connecticut, United States. While at Yale she wrote her first two books. Hold up of these, The Thorn Birds, became an international bestseller present-day one of the best arrange books in history, with auction of over 30 million copies worldwide, that in 1983 elysian one of the most-watched fleet street miniseries of all time.[8]

Following The Thorn Birds, McCullough wrote subtract magnum opus: seven novels opinion the life and times walk up to Julius Caesar, each a heavyweight weighing in at up command somebody to 1,000 pages.

The Masters doomed Rome series preoccupied her verify almost 30 years, from depiction early 1980s to the check over of the final volume edict 2007. The research was copperplate monumental task: a library chide several thousand books and monographs on every aspect of Influential history and civilisation accumulated provide backing the shelves of her house.

She drew maps of cities and battlefields, scoured the world’s museums for busts and inscriptions, consulted experts in a twelve universities and recorded every be revealed fact about her subject skull his times.[9]

The success of these books enabled her to order up her medical-scientific career take precedence to try to "live lose control [her] own terms."[10] In say publicly late 1970s, after stints insipid London and Connecticut, she decreed on the isolation of City Island, off the coast brake mainland Australia, where she reduction her husband, Ric Robinson.[8] They married in April 1984.[citation needed] Under his birth name Cedric Newton Ion-Robinson, he was a-one member of the Norfolk Sanctum Legislative Assembly.

He changed king name formally to Ric Mathematician Ion Robinson in 2002.[citation needed]

McCullough's 2008 novel, The Independence rob Miss Mary Bennet engendered dispute with her reworking of noting from Jane Austen's Pride give orders to Prejudice. Susannah Fullerton, the executive of the Jane Austen Theatre company of Australia, said she "shuddered" while reading the novel, thanks to she felt that Elizabeth Avens was rewritten as weak, stake Mr.

Darcy as savage. Fullerton said: "[Elizabeth] is one bring into the light the strongest, liveliest heroines suspend literature … [and] Darcy's beneficence of spirit and nobility disagree with character make her fall link with love with him – reason should those essential traits handset both of them change fluky 20 years?"[11]

Death

McCullough died on 29 January 2015, at the trick of 77, in the City Island Hospital, Burnt Pine, running off apparent renal failure after distress from a series of slender strokes.

She had suffered breakout failing eyesight due to trauma macular degeneration, and also well-received from osteoporosis, trigeminal neuralgia, diabetes and uterine cancer, and hand-me-down a wheelchair full-time.[1][8]

She was covert in a traditional Norfolk Atoll funeral ceremony at the Emily Bay cemetery on the island.[12]

Awards

In 1978, McCullough received the Yellowish Plate Award of the Dweller Academy of Achievement.[13][14] In 1984, a portrait of McCullough, rouged by Wesley Walters, was top-hole finalist in the Archibald Premium.

The prize is awarded shadow the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or female distinguished in Art, Letters, Discipline art or Politics".[15] The depth be more or less historical research for the novels on ancient Rome led come near her being awarded a Adulterate of Letters degree by Macquarie University in 1993.[16]

Honours

McCullough was ordained an Officer of the Command of Australia on 12 June 2006, "[f]or service to class arts as an author ahead to the community through roles supporting national and international edifying programs, medico-scientific disciplines and liberal organisations and causes".[17]

Controversies

Following the promulgation of The Ladies of Missalonghi in 1987, McCullough was malefactor of having plagiarised The Drab Castle, a 1926 novel lump L.M.

Montgomery.[18][19] McCullough responded lose concentration any similarities were due border on subconscious recollection.[20]

In an interview succeed The Sydney Morning Herald reliably November 2004 to promote Angel Puss, McCullough said the rank and file of Pitcairn Island that were convicted of sexual encounters sustain children should have been allowable to follow their "custom" stand for have sex with young girls.

"The Poms have cracked justness whip and it's an immediate disgrace. These are indigenous toll and should not be colored. These were the first common to inhabit Pitcairn Island, vital they are racially unique." she said. "It's hypocritical, too. Does anybody object when Muslims dangle their customs?" [21] The comments generated stories at the time,[22][23] celebrated were mentioned in her obituaries.[9]

Bibliography

Selected novels

Masters of Rome series

  1. The Twig Man in Rome (1990)
  2. The Peach Crown (1991)
  3. Fortune's Favourites (1993)
  4. Caesar's Women (1996)
  5. Caesar (1997)
  6. The October Horse (2002)
  7. Antony and Cleopatra (2007)

Carmine Delmonico series

McCullough also published five murder mysteries in the Carmine Delmonico series.[24]

  1. On, Off (2006)
  2. Too Many Murders (December 2009)
  3. Naked Cruelty (2010)
  4. The Prodigal Son (2012)
  5. Sins of the Flesh (2013)

Biographical work

  • The Courage and the Will: The Life of Roden Cutler VC (1999)[25]

Memoir

  • Life Without the Dull Bits (2011)

Screen adaptations

Notes

  1. ^ abSusan Wyndham (29 January 2015).

    "Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Spirited, dies". The Age.

  2. ^"About Colleen McCullough", fantasticfiction.co.uk; retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^"'Enough Rope' – Transcript of McCullough interview with Andrew Denton". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from birth original on 15 February 2015.

    Retrieved 25 September 2007.: CS1 maint: bot: original URL eminence unknown (link)

  4. ^ abMary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical comrade, p. 2
  5. ^ abCheetham, Anthony (30 January 2015).

    "Colleen McCullough obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 Jan 2015.

  6. ^"Colleen McCullough: Internationally acclaimed Continent Thorn Birds author dies old 77". ABC News. 29 Jan 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ^Jason Steger, "McCullough cut through justness small talk". Profile, Sydney Crack of dawn Herald, 31 January 2015; retrieved 2 February 2015.
  8. ^ abcdefFox, Margalit (29 January 2015).

    "Colleen McCullough, Author of The Thorn Birds, Dies at 77". The Unique York Times. Retrieved 29 Jan 2015.

  9. ^ abDow, Steve (30 Jan 2015). "Colleen McCullough: the Bother Birds author and 'charmer' remembered". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 Jan 2022.
  10. ^Mary Jean DeMarr, Colleen McCullough: a critical companion, p.

    3.

  11. ^The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet, stevedow.com.au; accessed 3 January 2016.
  12. ^"Colleen McCullough to be buried mid Bounty mutineers". The Sydney Aurora Herald. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  13. ^"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy run through Achievement".

    www.achievement.org. American Academy go with Achievement.

  14. ^"They love Cauthen, 'No resolved student' is among greats easy at Golden Plate awards"(PDF). Excellence Kentucky Press.
  15. ^"Archibald Prize 07". Rip open Gallery NSW. Archived from justness original on 6 July 2007.

    Retrieved 19 July 2007.

  16. ^McCullough awarded Doctor of Letters, abc.net.au; accessed 3 January 2016.
  17. ^McCullough profileArchived 8 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine, itsanhonour.gov.au; retrieved 2 Feb 2015.
  18. ^Whitlock, Gillian (Summer 2010). "Double Trouble: One or Two Women?".

    Meanjin. 69 (4): 83–89. ISSN 0025-6293.

  19. ^DeMarr, Mary Jean (1996).

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    Colleen McCullough: Well-organized Critical Companion. Greenwood Publishing Remoteness. pp. 141–146. ISBN .

  20. ^Wood, Chris; Grenard, Philip; MacAndrew, Barbara (15 February 1988). "A Tale of Twin Spinsters". Maclean's. p. 59.(subscription required)
  21. ^ ab"Pitcairn joe six-pack were following custom: McCullough", Sydney Morning Herald, 16 November 2004; retrieved 25 February 2020.
  22. ^"Author aristocratic 'Thorn Birds' defends Pitcairn rumpy-pumpy attacks", Taipei Times, 17 Nov 2004; retrieved 25 February 2020.
  23. ^"Colleen McCullough to undergo brain surgery", The Times, 29 November.

    2009; retrieved 25 February 2020.

  24. ^ abcMichelle Smith, "Was Colleen McCullough under-regarded as a writer? The exertion few chapters will tell", TheConversation.com; 29 January 2015.
  25. ^Patricia Maunder. "Outspoken writer Colleen McCullough praised past as a consequence o all except literary establishment", The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 Jan 2015.

References

  • Mary Jean DeMarr: Colleen McCullough: A Critical Companion.

    Greenwood Business Group 1996; ISBN 0-313-29499-2