Margaret Packham Hargrave
| Margaret Packham Hargrave | |
|---|---|
 Margaret Packham Hargrave, 1998 | |
| Born |
Margaret Ruth Packham 8 November 1941 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Other names | Inez Frazer |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, nurse, teacher |
| Known for | A Woman of Air |
Margaret Packham Hargrave (born Margaret Ruth Packham, 8 November 1941) is an Australian poet and writer. She is the author of two novels, Jake's Luck (1994) and A Woman of Air (1996) – winner of the inaugural Elle/Random House Fiction Prize. Her early career was as a nursing academic and then a secondary English teacher.
Life and career
Margaret Packham Hargrave was born as Margaret Ruth Packham on 8 November 1941 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Auburn.[1] For secondary education she attended Sutherland High School. Her tertiary studies were at New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music where she studied voice with Raymond Beatty and viola with Georgiana Maclean; and concurrently at Sydney Hospital where she studied nursing (January 1960 to December 1963).[1] Subsequently, she completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Psychology, and Master of Letters in Middle English/Chaucer at the University of New England and a Diploma of Education at Mitchell College. She had an early career as a nurse (March 1964 – June 1967) including as a lecturer in Nursing Studies, publishing a research paper, "Literature in the Nursing Course" in The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing (1985).[1] From July 1978 to December 1984 she worked as a poultry farmer near Dubbo and was a freelance journalist for the local newspaper, Daily Liberal.[1] She then became a teacher of secondary English (February 1987 – August 2006) before committing herself to writing.[1]
Since August 1974 Hargrave has also worked as a freelance writer and has had short stories and poems published in various magazines or newspapers: Westerly, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald, Cleo, Grass Roots and Matilda.[1] A book of her poems, Midnight Fugue, was published in 1983.[2] She developed an interest in screenwriting and her first short film, A Difficult Patient, – based on her book, A Woman of Air – was produced and directed by Tony Chu of NAFA Productions was exhibited at the Cannes Short Film Corner, 2009. Original music composed by Nathan Chan. In September, 2008, she was elected to Sutherland Shire Council as one of the team of Shire Watch Independents and left the council in September 2012.[3]
Bibliography
Short stories
- "The Sound of Crying", Cleo, August, 1974
- "The Chiffionier", Westerly (4), 1988
- "Domestica", Westerly (1), 1989
- "Small Fame", Westerly(4), 1989
- Packham Hargrave, Margaret (Autumn 1990). "My Sister's Memory". Meanjin. 49 (1): 134–136. ISSN 0025-6293.[4]
Poetry
- Anthologised in: Poets' Choice, 1977; Holes in the Evening (1982), Fat Possum Press; and That Moon-Filled Urge (1985), Kardoorair Press.
- Hargrave, Margaret (1983). Midnight Fugue. Cammeray, NSW: Saturday Centre. ISBN 978-0-909293-49-9.[2]
Novels
- Jake's Luck (1994) Allen & Unwin
- Packham Hargrave, Margaret (1996). A Woman of Air. Milsons Point, NSW: Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-183257-5.[5] – Recipient of Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.
Articles
- "New Horizons: Literary Studies in the Nursing Course", The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 3 No. 1 (1985), cited in Begley, Ann-Marie, 'Literature and Poetry: Pleasure and Practice', International Journal of Nursing Practice (2), December, 1996
- "A Tale of Two Lives", Family Circle, June 2004 (writing as Inez Frazer)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Packham Hargrave, Margaret (15 February 2011). "Councillor for C Ward". LinkMe. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- 1 2 "Midnight Fugue / Margaret Hargrave". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ↑ "Sutherland Shire Council - Mayor, councillors and elections". 22 September 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ↑ "'My Sister's Memory'". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ↑ "A Woman of Air / Margaret Packham Hargrave". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2012.