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{{Short description|Australian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian}}

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'''Marjorie Faith Barnard''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (16 August 1897{{spaced ndash}}8 May 1987) was an [[Australians|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.<ref name = "Nelson">Nelson (2004)</ref>

'''Marjorie Faith Barnard''' ([[1897]]-[[1987]]) was an Australian novelist, critic and historian. She was born in Ashfield, [[Sydney]], to Ethel Frances and Oswald Holme Barnard, and was their only surviving child. 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. She never married, and died in Sydney.

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. For both her work as M. Barnard Eldershaw and in her own right, Barnard is recognised as a major figure in Australian letters.<ref>Nelson (2004)</ref>

==Life==

MarjorieBarnard was born in [[Ashfield, New South Wales|Ashfield]], [[Sydney]], to Ethel Frances and Oswald Holme Barnard, and was initiallytheir only surviving child. She had polio as a child<ref name = "Baker">Baker (1987) p. 29, 39, 40, 39, 38</ref> and was taught by a governess, until she was 10 years old. She then attended the Cambridge School and [[Sydney Girls' High School]].<ref name=DistinguishedOldGirls>{{cite web|url=http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/History/index.html |title=Distinguished Old Girls |accessdate=2008-05-25 |work=The History of Sydney Girls High School |publisher=Sydney Girls High School |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622120326/http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/History/index.html |archivedate=22 June 2008 }}</ref> After high school, she went to the [[University of Sydney]], from which she graduated with first class honours and the first University Medal for History in 1918. She was offered a scholarship to Oxford, but her father refused her permission to go, and so she trained as a librarian at the Sydney Teachers' College. She worked as a librarian at the [[State Library of New South Wales|Public Library of New South Wales]] and then the Sydney Technical College until 1935 when she left to write full-time, at the encouragement of her friend, writer and literary critic, [[Nettie Palmer]]., Sheand wasmade able to do thispossible through receiving a small allowance from her father. She wrote to Nettie Palmer at the time that she was seeking '"some sort of fulfilment, to run my vital energy into a creative mould instead of just letting it soak into the thirsty sand of a daily round'".<ref name = "Modjeska78">Modjeska (1981) p. 78</ref>

She joined the [[Fellowship of Australian Writers]] in 1935, of which [[Flora Eldershaw]] was President for a couple of terms. During the next five years, she, Flora Eldershaw and [[Frank Dalby Davison]] were known as '"the triumvirate'"<ref> name = "Nelson (2004)<"/ref> for their joint work on political and cultural policy.<ref>Dever (2006)<name = "Modjeska78"/ref><ref name = "Dever">ModjeskaDever (19812006) p. 78</ref> As well as Flora Eldershaw and Frank Dalby Davison, Marjorie Barnard knew many of the leading writers of her time, including [[Vance Palmer|Vance]] and [[Nettie Palmer]], [[Miles Franklin]], [[Katharine Susannah Prichard]], [[Eleanor Dark]], [[Xavier Herbert]] and [[Patrick White]].

Barnard travelled overseas several times, the first time in 1933 with her mother.<ref name = "Rora">Rorabacher (1973) pp. 11-12, 22, ''Collaboration'' ch., 168, 167</ref> She loved travel but in 1986 stated that "I think it's dangerous for writers to leave their roots. I am—was—an Australian writer".<ref name = "Baker"/>

Barnard knew many of the leading writers of the time, including [[Vance and Nettie Palmer]], [[Frank Dalby Davison]], [[Miles Franklin]], [[Katharine Susannah Pritchard]], [[Eleanor Dark]], [[Xavier Herbert]], and [[Flora Eldershaw]] with whom she wrote collaborative works under the name of M. Barnard Eldershaw until Eldershaw's death in 1956.

In the late 1930s, though she still lived at home, she and Flora Eldershaw took a flat in Potts Point where they held regular gatherings which operated something like a literary salon. Many of the leading literary and cultural figures of the time visited the flat, and it was here that she was able to spend time with Frank Dalby Davison whom she admitted many years later had been her love.<ref name = "Nelson"/><ref name = "Modjeska">Modjeska (1981) p. 208-10, 79-80</ref> She wrote of this relationship to her writer friend, [[Jean Devanny]], "I was deeply in love with him ... We were lovers for eight years ... In 1942 I knew things were coming to an end ... I was, as he said, very naïve".<ref name = "Dever"/> She admitted to Devanny that the break-up of this relationship was the cause of a serious illness.<ref>Hooton (1993)</ref>

Barnard travelled overseas several times, the first time in 1933 with her mother.<ref>Rorabacher (1973) pp. 11-12</ref>

Her father died in 1940, leaving her with an ailing mother. She returned to library work in 1942, at the Public Library of New South Wales and then the [[CSIRO]]. However, her mother's death in 1949 left her 'modestly independent' enabling her to leave work in 1950.<ref>Rorabacher (1973)name p.= 22<"Rora"/ref>

Marjorie Barnard never married, but did have a close relationship with Frank Dalby Davison in the late 1930s, between his mariages.<ref>Modjeska (1981) p. 208-210</ref> Sheand destroyed essentially all her correspondence. However, several of her correspondents, particularly Nettie Palmer and Jean Devanny, kept her letters to them, and some of these are now held in Australian libraries and archives, such as the [[National Library of Australia]]. <ref> name = "Nelson (2004)<"/ref>

She died at [[Point Clare, New South Wales|Point Clare]] on the Central Coast of New South Wales in 1987, aged 89.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marjorie Barnard |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A31474 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}</ref>

==Career==

Marjorie Barnard's writing career spanned four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, with the majority of her works being written in the 1930s–1940s, a period in Australia noted for its flowering of women writers. Despite this, in an interview in 1986, she stated that there was no such thing as a "woman writer", that "there are writers good and bad. Only the work counts".<ref name = "Baker"/> In the same interview, she also said, "I never achieved what I set out to do; I never achieved the goals I set myself for each book. I suppose the only exception to that would be ''The Persimmon Tree''".<ref name = "Baker"/> She wrote little in the last twenty years of her life.

===Collaboration===

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Barnard's writing career was inspired by her meeting with Flora Eldershaw in her first year at university, and her first work was a children's book, ''The ivory gate'', published in 1920. However, on seeing an advertisement for [[The Bulletin]] prize, she and Eldershaw wrote their first collaborative novel, ''A house is built'', which went on to win the prize in 1928, shared with Katharine Susannah Pritchard's ''Coonardoo''. Using the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw, they wrote five novels, as well as a wide range of non-fiction works including histories and criticisms.

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Barnard's writing career was inspired by her meeting Flora Eldershaw in her first year at university, and her first work was a children's book, ''The Ivory Gate'', published in 1920. However, on seeing an advertisement for ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]'' prize, she and Eldershaw wrote their first [[collaborative fiction|collaborative novel]], ''A House is Built'', which went on to win the prize in 1928, shared with Katharine Susannah Prichard's ''Coonardoo''.

It is generally accepted that Barnard was the more expressive writer of the two, and that Eldershaw contributed her acute critical sense. However, Rorabacher also states that in their early collaborative novels it is impossible to distinguish their separate contributions.<ref>Rorabacher (1973) ''Collaboration'' chapter</ref>

Using the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw, they wrote five novels, as well as a wide range of non-fiction works including histories and criticisms, such as their well-regarded ''Essays in Australian Fiction'' (1938). This book contained essays on [[Henry Handel Richardson]], Katharine Susannah Prichard, [[Leonard Mann (writer)|Leonard Mann]], [[Martin Boyd]] (under his pseudonym Martin Mills), [[Christina Stead]] and Eleanor Dark.

Their final collaborative novel, ''Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow'', published in 1945 as ''Tomorrow and tomorrow'', is considered to be one of Australia's major early science fiction novels and was highly regarded by Australia's only [[Nobel Prize]] winner for literature, [[Patrick White]].

Their final collaborative novel was ''Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow''. It was published in 1945 as ''Tomorrow and Tomorrow''. It is considered to be one of Australia's major early science fiction novels and was highly regarded by Australia's only [[Nobel Prize]] winner for literature, [[Patrick White]]. However, it was censored for political reasons at the time and was not published in its entirety until [[Virago Press]] reissued it in 1983.<ref name = "Nelson"/>

While it is generally accepted that Barnard was the more expressive writer of the two, and that Eldershaw contributed her acute critical sense, Rorabacher also states that in their early collaborative novels it is impossible to distinguish their separate contributions.<ref name = "Rora"/> Overall, Barnard did more of the creative writing while Eldershaw focused on the structure and development of their major works. However, because Eldershaw was the more outgoing and articulate of the two, it was frequently assumed, at the time, that she was the dominant partner. This did not spoil their partnership, which lasted two decades, bearing testament to the fact that both derived value from it.<ref name = "Modjeska"/>

===Solo career===

Barnard's most successful fictional work written in her own right is ''The persimmonPersimmon treeTree and otherOther storiesStories'' (1943). It was reissued by Virago in 1985, with the inclusion of three additional stories not previously published in bookformbook form. The title story, ''The persimmonPersimmon treeTree'', is one of Australia's most anthologised stories.<ref>Vickery and Dever (2007)</ref> The stories were published soon after the end of her relationship with Davison, and were seen by Barnard as some "compensation for the hurt that was integral to their production".<ref name = "D08">Dever (2008)</ref> As [[Maryanne Dever]] writes, "stories such as 'The Persimmon Tree', 'The Woman Who Did the Right Thing' and 'Beauty is Strength' take as their themes the consequences of illicit love, rivalry between women and the withdrawal and stoicism sometimes demanded of injured lovers".<ref name = "D08"/>

After Eldershaw's death, Barnard continued to write, mostly histories and literary criticism, including, in 1967, the first biography of [[Miles Franklin]]. She admired Franklin's character and energy but was less enamoured of her literary abilities, writing that 'her writings are eclipsed by her personality'<ref name = "Rora"/> and that 'she was no philosopher, displayed little skill in constructing her books, and not much originality in plot.'<ref name = "Rora"/>

Her ''History of Australia'', published in 1963, was well-reviewed at the time. One reviewer compared it favourably with histories by [[Sir (William) Keith Hancock|Keith Hancock]], [[A. G. L. Shaw|A.G.L. Shaw]], [[Max Crawford]] and Douglas Pike, writing that she "writes good narrative prose and avoids, on the whole, analysis, although she can provide good commonsense summaries (as on the convict tradition or the Federation movement) when she wishes".<ref name = "RWW">Winks (1964) p. 1070</ref> He goes on to say that "her argument is not original, but she states it with clarity, a well-calculated density of detail, and with authority, especially when she writes on the subject she knows best, [[Lachlan Macquarie|Macquarie]]'s world".<ref name = "RWW"/> He does however note that there are some errors and inconsistencies, and gaps in the bibliography.<ref name = "RWW"/>

After Eldershaw's death, Barnard continued to write, mostly histories and literary criticism, including, in 1967, the first biography of Miles Franklin. She admired Franklin's character and energy but was less enamoured of her literary abilities, writing that 'her writings are eclipsed by her personality'<ref>Rorabacher (1973) p. 168</ref> and that 'she was no philosopher, displayed little skill in constructing her books, and not much originality in plot.'<ref>Rorabacher (1973) p. 167</ref>. She wrote little in the last twenty years of her life.

==Politics==

While she never joined a political party, she was affected by the social and political upheavals of the 1930s. During this period, Barnard, Eldershaw and Frank Dalby Davison worked together to ensure the [[Fellowship of Australian Writers]] (FAW) functioned as a trade union of professional writers and that it adopted progressive positions on political questions.<ref>Darby (1993)</ref> It was this work that resulted in their being known as 'the triumvirate'. Fiona Capp writes, for example, that through the FAW Barnard and Eldershaw actively lobbied against National Security regulations and infringements on the freedom of speech.<ref name ="Capp">Capp (1993)</ref>

SheBarnard regarded herself as a 'nineteenth century liberal'<ref> name = "Nelson (2004)<"/ref> and defined herself as a pacifist. In 1940, she joined the [[Peace Pledge Union]]. She edited a collection of essays defending freedom, thatwhich wasn'twas not published, and a pamphlet ''The caseCase for the futureFuture'', thatwhich was banned by the censor. She also joined the [[Australian Labor Party]] as confirmed in several letters to Nettie Palmer, although later denied that she had ever joined.<ref>Dever (1989) p. 10</ref> Dever suggests that this denial may be due to the [[Cold War]] witch hunts of the 1950s in which her name, among others, was mentioned.<ref>Dever (1989) p. 15-16</ref> She suggests that Barnard received more criticism at that time than Eldershaw, who was frequently defended as a member of the CLF Advisory Board, and that, not being fond of publicity, she was likely to have been "deeply disturbed" by "the accusations and embarrassingly public attention".<ref>Dever (1989) p. 18</ref>

==FAW Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award==

==Awards==

Barnard provided for a biennial prize in her will, in which $500 is offered as first prize for a short story of 3,000 words.<ref>Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc</ref> When Yasmine Gooneratne won the award in 1991, it was titled the Marjorie Barnard Literary Award for Fiction.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Gooneratne+Yasmine |title=Yasmine Gooneratne |access-date=12 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928150444/http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Gooneratne+Yasmine |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*2017: Gabrielle Leago: "The Dark Road Home"<ref>{{cite web|title=Prize-winning Story: The 2017 FAW NSW Marjorie Barnard Award|url=http://fawnsw.org.au/prize-winning-story-the-2017-faw-nsw-marjorie-barnard-award/|website=Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.|accessdate=13 February 2018}}</ref>

*1928 ''[[The Bulletin]]'' Prize

*2015: Dorothy Simmons: "Count Down"<ref>{{cite web|title=Dorothy Simmons wins Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award|url=http://fawnsw.org.au/dorothy-simmons-wins-marjorie-barnard-2015-short-story-award/|website=Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.|accessdate=18 August 2017}}</ref>

*1981 [[Order of Australia|AO (Officer of the Order of Australia)]]

*2009: Sharyn Munro: "Live at the Bellevue"

*1983 [[Patrick White Award]]

*2007: Geoffrey Dean: "The Man Who Forgot Himself"<ref name=award2007>{{cite web|title=The FAW Marjorie Barnard Short Story Award |publisher=FAW NSW |url=http://www.fawnsw.org.au/competitions.htm#barnardAward |accessdate=2007-02-05 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109185331/http://www.fawnsw.org.au/competitions.htm |archivedate=9 January 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*1984 [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|NSW Premier's Special Award]]

*2005: Jacqueline Winn: "Once More with Feeling"

*1986 Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Sydney

*Carolline Rhodes

* 1999: Antonia Hildebrand: "To Breathe"

* 1997: Helen Armstrong: "Encounter at Arkadi"

*1991: Yasmine Gooneratne: ''A Change of Skies'' (novel)

==Honours and awards==

*1928: ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]'' Prize

*1980: [[Order of Australia|Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)]]<ref name="oam">{{cite web |title=Miss Marjorie Faith BARNARD |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869720 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility |publisher=Australian Government |accessdate=30 August 2020}}</ref>

*1983: [[Patrick White Award]]

*1984: [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|NSW Premier's Special Award]]

*1986: Honorary Doctor of Letters from the [[University of Sydney]].

==Selected works==

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====As Marjorie Barnard====

*''The persimmonPersimmon treeTree, and otherOther storiesStories'' (1943)

====As M. Barnard Eldershaw====

*''[[A houseHouse is builtBuilt]]'' (1929)

*''Green memoryMemory'' (1931)

*''The glasshouseGlasshouse'' (1936)

*''Plaque with Laurel'' (1937)

*''Tomorrow and Tomorrow'' (1947)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cunneen |first=Rachel |url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10713/5/Cunneen%20Thesis%202003.pdf |title=Organs of becoming : reading, editing and censoring the texts of M. Barnard Eldershaw's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow |publisher=Unpublished thesis |year=2003 |pages=355}}</ref>

*''Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow'' (1945)

===Non-fiction===

====As Marjorie Barnard====

*''Macquarie's worldWorld'' (1941)

*''Australian outlineOutline'' (1943)

*''A historyHistory of Australia'' (1962)

*''Miles Franklin: aA biographyBiography'' (1967)

====As M. Barnard Eldershaw====

*''Phillip of Australia: anAn accountAccount of the settlementSettlement of Sydney Cove, 1788-92'' (1938)

*''Essays in Australian fictionFiction'' (1938)

*''The lifeLife and timesTimes of Captain George Piper'' (1939)

*''My Australia'' (1939)

==Notes==

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==References==

*Adelaide, Debra (1988) ''Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide'', London, Pandora

*Baker, Candida (1987) ''Yacker 2: Australian writers talk about their work'', Sydney, Picador

*[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130656b.htm Darby, Robert (1993) 'Davison, Frank Dalby (1893-1970)' in ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' Online edition]

*Capp, Fiona (1993) ''Writers defiled'', South Yarra, McPhee Gribble, pp.&nbsp;180–181

*[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140099b.htm Dever, Maryanne (2006) 'Eldershaw, Flora Sydney (1897-1956)' in ''Australian dictionary of biography'' Online edition]

*[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130656b.htm Darby, Robert (1993) "Davison, Frank Dalby (1893-1970)" in ''Australian dictionary of biography'' Online edition]

*Dever, Maryanne (1989) "No time is inopportune for a protest: Aspects of the political activities of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw" in ''Hecate'', 15(2): 9-21

*[http://www.nla.gov.au/grants/haroldwhite/papers/mdever.html Dever, Maryanne (1995) ''Reading other people's mail'', Lecture by Harold White Fellow, Maryanne Dever, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 25 October 1995]

*[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140099b.htm Dever, Maryanne (2006) "Eldershaw, Flora Sydney (1897-1956)" in ''Australian dictionary of biography'' Online edition]

*[http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/fifty-books-fifty-years/virtual-exhibition/photos/photo15.html Dever, Maryanne (2008) ''Fifty books from fifty years: No. 15 Marjorie Barnard''] Retrieved: 2008-10-26

*Goldsworthy, Kerryn (2000) "Fiction from 1900 to 1970" in Webby, Elizabeth (ed.) ''The Cambridge companion to Australian literature'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070712082723/http://www.fawnsw.org.au/competitions.htm Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc]

*Goodwin, Ken (1986) ''A history of Australian literature'' ("Macmilllan history of literature" series), Basingstoke, Macmillan

*Hooton, Joy (1993) "Life-lines in stormy seas: Some recent collections of women's diaries and letters", ''Australian Literary Studies'', 16 (1)

*Modjeska, Drusilla (1981) ''Exiles at home: Australian women writers 1925-1945'', London, Sirius

*[http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2004/aug04/article3.html Nelson, Elizabeth (2004) 'Marjorie Barnard: writer, historian, reluctant librarian' in ''NLA News'' Vol. XIV No. 11]

*[[Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher|Rorabacher, Louise E]] (1973) ''Marjorie Barnard and M. Barnard Eldershaw'', New York, Twayne Publishers

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928150444/http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Gooneratne+Yasmine SAWnet Yasmine Gooneratne]

*[http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/women-writers/women-writers.rtf Vickery, Ann and Dever, Maryanne (2007) ''Australian Women Writers 1900-1950: An exhibition of material from the Monash University Library, Rare Book Collection, March 29-July 3, 2007'']

*[http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/women-writers/women-writers.rtf Vickery, Ann and Dever, Maryanne (2007) ''Australian Women Writers 1900-1950: An exhibition of material from the Monash University Library, Rare Book Collection, 29 March – 3 July 2007''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623230609/http://lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/women-writers/women-writers.rtf |date=23 June 2007 }}

*Winks, Robin W. (1964) "''A History of Australia'', by Marjorie Barnard (Reviews of Books", ''The American Historical Review'', 69 (4): 1070

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