• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE5284

Roe, Jillian Isobel (Jill)

(1940 – 2017)
  • Born 10 November, 1940, Tumby Bay South Australia Australia
  • Died 12 January, 2017, Pearl Beach New South Wales Australia
  • Occupation Historian

Summary

Jill Roe was a distinguished Australian historian and academic who wrote an important biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. She published her memoir, Our Fathers Cleared the Bush, about her childhood on the Eyre Peninsula in 2016.

Read more about Jill Roe in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Events

  • 2007 - 2007

    Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

Published resources

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Marilyn Lake, 1964-1999 [manuscript]

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  • Patron
    • Jessie Street National Women's Library (1989 - )
  • Related Organisations
    • Adelaide Girls' High School (1951 - 1976)
  • Related Concepts
    • History and Historians