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Charmian Clift - The Australian Media Hall of Fame

    Charmian Clift (30 August – 8 July ) was an Australian writer.

a writer who lived the dream and confronted its consequences

    Charmian Clift is a good example.
A beautifully descriptive, sun soaked memoir of life in Hydra in the 1950's.
Clift was born 30 August 1923 in Kiama, a coastal town 120 kilometres south of Sydney.
Charmian Clift was the Australian Sylvia Plath and some people have cast her husband George Johnston as a villain in the same mould as Plath's.

A fragment of a life • Inside Story

  • Charm is her greatest creation, Charmian Clift, the great Australian woman novelist.
    • Charmian Clift - Wikiwand

    Remembering Charmian Clift - Nadia Wheatley

  • Born in Orange, the son of Lionel and Vera (nee Jackson), he attended school in Orange and Sydney before following his uncle, later Sir Benjamin.

    • Charmian Clift - Australian Dictionary of Biography

  • Mermaid Singing (1956) and Peel Me a Lotus (1959) are two memoirs that Clift wrote about her family's time in Greece.

    • The World of Charmian Clift (1970) - The Neglected Books Page

      Fifty years after her death, Australian writer Charmian Clift is experiencing a renaissance.

    Charmian Clift

    Australian writer (1923–1969)

    Charmian Clift

    Clift in 1941

    Born(1923-08-30)30 August 1923

    Kiama, New South Wales, Australia

    Died8 July 1969(1969-07-08) (aged 45)

    Sydney

    OccupationWriter
    Spouse
    Children3; including Martin Johnston

    Charmian Clift (30 August 1923 – 8 July 1969) was an Australian writer. She was the second wife and literary collaborator of George Johnston.

    Early life

    Clift was born 30 August 1923 in Kiama, a coastal town 120 kilometres south of Sydney.[1]

    In 1941 she won a Beach Girl competition run by Pix magazine and soon after moved to Sydney where she did modelling work to supplement her main job as an usherette at the Minerva Theatre.[2] In 1942, aged 19, she became pregnant and gave up her child for adoption.[3]

    In April 1943 Clift enlisted in the Australian Army, where she gained the rank of Lance Bombardier in charge of a group of gunners housed in Drummoyne

    Charmian Clift - Wikipedia

  • Charmian Clift, pictured on the front cover of her memoir, Peel Me a Lotus.

    • remembering the Australian writer Charmian Clift, 50 years on

      George Johnston and Charmian Clift in happier times.