After early acclaim, Elizabeth Harrower didn’t write for decades. Two biographers consider why
- Written by Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Elizabeth Harrower at her Neutral Bay flat in 1961. Photograph by Jill CrossleyIn the 1950s and 1960s, Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense and highly praised “psychological fiction” of the 20th century. Mysteriously, she stopped writing after shelving a manuscript for her last novel, In Certain Circles, in 1971. Her...




