That Elizabeth Harrower should merit not one but two biographies would have both surprised and pleased her. That the biographies would be published within months of each other, by two Sydney writers and journalists, using much the same source material, would have intrigued her, as it did me. I don’t know Helen Trinca or Susan Wyndham, or who had the idea first, or anything of the anxiety they must have felt at being pipped at the post, or of any rivalry for sources and access to people or documents, but the two books arrived on my desk together.
Looking for Elizabeth: The life of Elizabeth Harrower by Helen Trinca
La Trobe University Press, $36.99 pb, 320 pp
Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower by Susan Wyndham
NewSouth, $39.99 pb 336 pp
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