Marjorie Barnard

Marjorie Barnard was born in Sydney in 1897; she attended Sydney Girls’ High School before enrolling at Sydney University where she met Flora Eldershaw with whom she would collaborate, as “M. Barnard Eldershaw” on five novels, three histories, short stories and a significant number of essays between 1929 and 1947, including A House is Built (1929), which remained in print for over 50 years. During the war she wrote her last novel with Flora Eldershaw, the apocalyptic Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Published in 1947, it was the victim of political censorship. ‘It was just murdered,’ said Barnard. ‘I was heartbroken.’

Marjorie Barnard died in 1987.