Marjorie Barnard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marjorie Barnard

Australian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1897

Place of Birth: Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 08-May-1987

Profession: writer, librarian, historian, biographer, literary critic, novelist, short story writer, science fiction writer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Marjorie Faith Barnard AO (16 August 1897 – 8 May 1987) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian - and librarian.
She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian.
She was employed as a librarian for two periods in her life (1923–1935 and 1942–1950), but her main passion was writing. Barnard met her collaborator, Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956), at the University of Sydney, and they published their first novel, A House is Built in 1929.
Their collaboration spanned the next two decades, and covered the full range of their writing: fiction, history and literary criticism.
They published under the pseudonym M.
Barnard Eldershaw.
Marjorie Barnard was a significant part of the literary scene in Australia between the wars and, for both her work as M.
Barnard Eldershaw and in her own right, is recognised as a major figure in Australian letters.