Jill Adelaide Neville
Biography
Neville was born in Sydney, Australia, the older sister of Richard Neville. She grew up in the Blue Mountains area, becoming involved in the Sydney bohemian scene at the age 17.{{Cite web|url=https://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2002.53/portrait-of-jill-neville|title=Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)|website=National Portrait Gallery collection|access-date=2018-03-20}} She attended Osborne Ladies' College,{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-jill-neville-5563498.html|title=Obituary: Jill Neville|author=David Leitch|work=The Independent|date=June 12, 1997}} and left Australia for London in 1951.When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain by Stephen Alomes (2000) {{ISBN|0521629780}}
In 1966, Neville published her first novel, Fall-Girl, which was based on her relationships with the poets Peter Porter and Robert Lowell. The novel received acclaim from contemporary critics.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-jill-neville-5563498.html|title=Obituary: Jill Neville|date=12 June 1997|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-03-20|language=en-GB}}
She was married three times: to Peter Duval-Smith in 1960, David Leitch in 1970, and Lewis Wolpert in 1993.{{cite web |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3310e8f8-e976-11e2-bf03-00144feabdc0.html |title=At home: biologist Lewis Wolpert on why happiness peaks at 74: The developmental biologist and author on death, depression and why happiness peaks at 74 |author=Trisha Andres |date=19 July 2013 |website=Financial Times |accessdate=18 March 2016}}
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995.
Novels
- {{Cite book |last=Neville |first=Jill |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34651724 |title=The day we cut the lavender |date=1995 |publisher=Penguin Books Australia |isbn=0-14-024823-4 |location=Ringwood, Vic. |oclc=34651724}}Review: {{Cite journal |first=Marian Favel Clair |last=Eldridge |journal=Australian Book Review |title=The Day We Cut the Lavender {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C103385 |date=January 1996 |volume=178 |access-date=2022-10-19 |pages=45–46 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Neville |first=Jill |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29353282 |title=Swimming the channel |date=1993 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=0-7475-1558-1 |location=London |oclc=29353282}}
- {{Cite book |last=Neville |first=Jill |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12011209 |title=Last Ferry to Manly |date=1984 |isbn=0-14-007068-0 |publisher=Penguin Books Australia |location=Ringwood, Vic., Australia |oclc=12011209}}
- {{Cite book |last=Neville |first=Jill |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1280860403 |title=The love-germ : a novel |date=1969 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |isbn=9780297179238 |location=London |oclc=1280860403}}
- Fall-Girl (1966)
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