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The ‘Psychic Space’ of Queensland in the Work of Janette Turner Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Sue Lovell
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In January 1967 Janette Turner Hospital left Queensland for Boston. She was unpublished. 25 years of age, and very much the product of a loving but fundamentalist childhood that she understood as the ‘source of all comfort and security, but also the source of all harm’. She has called America. India. Canada and France ‘home’ and has also frequently taught in other European countries. Although she has two adult children who have made their lives in the United States and Canada, her parents and three younger brothers remain in Brisbane, so she returns regularly to sustain family ties.

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Queensland Review , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , December 2004 , pp. 11 - 23
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