A Woman of Influence: Science, Men & History

by Ann Moyal

Overview

Written during the later years of an extraordinary life, Ann Moyal's memoir is a spirited narrative of her career as an eminent historian of Australian science and technology, while also documenting her three marriages, travelling the globe, the people she has encountered, and the joys and challenges of ageing. Responding to a lack of biographies of older women, Moyal continues where her earlier memoir Breakfast with Beaverbrook left off, reveling in the passions and people that continue to fill her life, through to her 80s. As one of Australia's significant intellectuals, this is both an account of the life of the mind, as well as an intimate telling of a rich and remarkable life. [In North America, Ann Moyal is perhaps best known for her book Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World.]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742585970
Publisher:	UWA Publishing
Publication date:	04/14/2014
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 A Sense of Place

2 Being a Historian

3 The Yellow Rug. The Story of a Marriage

4 Genesis. The Independent Scholars Association of Australia

5 A Late Love

6 Among the Historians

7 Dymphna. 'The Girl in the Dirndl Dress'

8 Meeting Alan Moorehead

9 The Writers' House

10 'A Long Chain of Clever People'

11 The Australian Ark

12 'The Bottom Line'

13 Writing 'Mr Clarke'

14 'Only Connect'

15 Old Age

16 Out of the West

17 Waving to Beaverbrook

Epilogue