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Sylvia Martin

Sylvia Martin is the author of three biographies, one of which, Ida Leeson: A Life, was awarded the Magarey Prize for Biography in 2008. Her latest book is Sky Swimming: Reflections on Auto/biography, People and Place (UWA Publishing, 2020).

Books & arts Sylvia Martin 20 June 2024 Monte Punshon, the Japanophile once dubbed “the world’s oldest lesbian,” embraced the limelight in old age
Books & arts Sylvia Martin 29 November 2023 A novelist’s correspondence gives rare insights into his life and work Books & arts Sylvia Martin 30 August 2023 “My Country” shadowed the career of poet Dorothea Mackellar Books & arts Sylvia Martin 7 October 2021 An unconventional biography reveals a complex cold war–era family Essays & reportage Sylvia Martin 5 October 2020 Remembered in Australia mainly for her relationship with Vida Goldstein, Cecilia John’s story took a different course after the first world war
Essays & reportage Sylvia Martin 13 April 2020 How a daughter’s death caused by Spanish flu sent a family halfway across the globe
Essays & reportage Sylvia Martin 10 February 2020 The discovery of a remarkable piece of writing by Aileen Palmer adds poignancy to her later life Books & arts Sylvia Martin 25 June 2019 Books | Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream Essays & reportage Sylvia Martin 22 April 2019 In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences Essays & reportage Sylvia Martin 29 October 2018 Forty-five years ago, Sylvia Martin was among the actors who performed in the earliest productions at the Sydney Opera House
Books & arts Sylvia Martin 1 October 2018 Australian suffragettes played a sometimes flamboyant role in the fight for the vote, at home and in Britain From the archive Sylvia Martin 23 April 2018 A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer