The Ern Malley Affair

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by Michael Heyward

“That night, sitting at her kitchen table, Ethel Malley wrote the letter that made her famous. Dear Sir, she began, When I was going through my brother’s things after his death, I found some poetry he had written…”

So begins the extraordinary story of the Ern Malley hoax: the strange and brilliant poems Ern wrote in total isolation, their sensational publication and the incredible court case which followed.

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Condition: Fair
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication Date: 1993
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780702225628

by Michael Heyward

“That night, sitting at her kitchen table, Ethel Malley wrote the letter that made her famous. Dear Sir, she began, When I was going through my brother’s things after his death, I found some poetry he had written…”

So begins the extraordinary story of the Ern Malley hoax: the strange and brilliant poems Ern wrote in total isolation, their sensational publication and the incredible court case which followed.

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Condition: Fair
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication Date: 1993
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780702225628