Killer Kramer, Dame Leonie: a woman for all seasons
Damien Freeman
Australian Biographical Monographs 14
Paperback, 114 pages, $19.95
ISBN: 9781922449917
This is the first biography of Dame Leonie Kramer, who held the Chair
of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney from 1968 to 1989
and was dubbed ‘Killer Kramer’ by Nobel laureate and nemesis, Patrick
White.
Dame Leonie was the first woman to be a professor at Sydney
University and the first to serve as its chancellor and as the ABC’s
chairman.
She exerted a formidable influence in Australia’s cultural,
intellectual, and public life for over half a century, during which time
she liked to think of herself as a radical conservative.
Damien Freeman is the principal policy advisor at the PM Glynn
Institute, Australian Catholic University, and General Editor of the
Kapunda Press. His books include Roddy’s Folly: R. P. Meagher QC - art lover and lawyer and Abbott’s Right: the conservative tradition from Menzies to Abbott.
[ITEMPRICE]