Coral Lansbury | |
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| Born | Coral Magnolia Lansbury 14 October 1929 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 3 April 1991 (aged 61) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Education | PhD, English, University of Auckland |
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| Spouses | Bruce Turnbull
(m. 1955; div. 1963)John Salmon
(m. 1963; div. 1969) |
| Children | Malcolm Turnbull |
| Relatives | Angela Lansbury (second cousin) Bruce Lansbury (second cousin) Edgar Lansbury (second cousin) |
| Scientific career | |
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Coral Magnolia Lansbury (14 October 1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born feminist writer and academic.[1] Working in the United States from 1969 until her death, she became Distinguished Professor of English and Dean of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University.[2][3][4]
A former child actor and scriptwriter, Lansbury was the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction. The latter included The Reasonable Man: Trollope's Legal Fiction (1970), Elizabeth Gaskell: The Novel of Social Crisis (1975), and The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England (1985). Her best-known novel was The Grotto (1989).[3]
Lansbury's son, Malcolm Turnbull, became the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.
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