Marilla North

Marilla North
Marilla North, Prague 1995
Born
Marilla North

14 September 1945
Occupations
  • educator
  • journalist
  • communications consultant
  • media producer
  • biographer
  • publisher
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Websitehttp://www.yarnspinners.com.au/

Marilla North (also Marilla Wilson and Marilla Eidlitz) (born 14 September 1945) is a biographer and cultural historian, working in Australian women’s literary history. Her teaching career has spanned over 50 years in public education at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, where she has specialised in Life Writing.

North has been Director/CEO of several agencies in government and the private sector. She was employed for 20 years in the communications sector in marketing and issues management. She is the author of the prize-winning narrative-biographical work, Yarn Spinners (2001, 2017), and she has published articles, chapters, papers and biographical entries on the writers Dymphna Cusack, Miles Franklin, Florence James, Cusack's partner Norman Freehill, and other Australian personalities of the mid to late 20th Century.