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Jill Roe
Australian historian and academic (1940–2017)
Jillian Isobel Roe, AO, FASSA (10 November 1940 – 12 January 2017) was an Australian historian and academic, who wrote a definitive biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin.
Early life and education
Roe was born in 1940, at Tumby Bay, South Australia.
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Her grandparents had been early settlers of the western coast of South Australia.[1] Her mother Edna Heath, a nurse, died before Roe was two years old, and she was raised on the Eyre Peninsula by her father John Roe, a farmer.
At the age of 14, she attended Adelaide Girls' High School. Upon matriculating, she enrolled to study history at the University of Adelaide, and in 1963 moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, where she wrote her Master of Arts thesis on "intellectual life of the city of Melbourne between 1876 and 1886", under the supervision of Don Baker and Manning Clark.[2]
Career
In 1967, Roe joined t