Kathleen Fitzpatrick

About The Author

The late Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1908–1990) was born at Omeo, Victoria, and was Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 1983 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by her alma mater. Her forty-year correspondence with the late Manning Clark was published by MUP in 1996 as Dear Kathleen, Dear Manning.

Books by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Solid Bluestone Foundations

And Other Memories of a Melbourne Girlhood 1908–1928

By Kathleen Fitzpatrick
'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations' of her somewhat peripatetic youth, offering her a haven of emotional security and material abundance. The puzzled observations and alert curiosity of a highly intelligent child are vividly recr...
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