Vernon, Barbara Mary (1916 - 1979)

Barbara Vernon worked for 2NZ radio and for the ABC, first in radio drama, and then in television. At 2NZ she ran a radio pen club for children, and hosted children's hour. Her radio serial on Georges Sand was broadcast by ABC radio. Vernon was the author of Bellbird, a long-running television series in the 1960s.

Books

• Vernon, Barbara, Bellbird: The Story of a Country Town, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1970. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

• Brisbane, Katharine (ed.), Plays of the 50s, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2004. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]