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6 unusual facts about Germaine Greer


Hamnet Shakespeare

Germaine Greer, however, thinks it unlikely that the Shakespeare children were raised principally at Henley Street, proposing instead the possibility that the newly-wed Shakespeares set up house in a small cottage, or even took up residence at New Place as tenants early in their marriage, before purchasing it later on.

Hawksian woman

Germaine Greer describes this archetype as the 'Female Eunuch', the perfect housewife who was often portrayed with actresses like Marilyn Monroe and Catherine Deneuve and directed by Howard Hawks.

Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine

Germaine Greer points out that because Marie-Victoire Lemoine sometimes signed her works "Lemoine," the works of the two artists may sometimes be misattributed.

Jung Young-moon

In his role as translator, Jung has translated a wide range of work including John Fowles’ Ebony Tower, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Germaine Greer’s The Boy.

Modern Art Oxford

Stella Vine (July - September 2007) - a major solo show of by the Britart painter including more than 100 paintings and a catalogue essay by Germaine Greer.

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein

Germaine Greer dismissed Lauritsen's thesis, writing that while he argues that Mary Shelley was not well educated enough to have written it, Frankenstein is not "a good, let alone a great" novel and that it does not deserve the attention it has been given.


Anthony Fisher

In 1994 he appeared on a memorable edition of the live British discussion television program After Dark along with Tom Shakespeare, Lewis Wolpert and Germaine Greer.

Human female sexuality

Other writers such as Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir and Camille Paglia were particularly influential in this, although their views were not universally or placidly accepted.

Jill Johnston

The event was a vigorous debate on feminism with Norman Mailer, author; Germaine Greer, author; Diana Trilling, literary critic; and Jacqueline Ceballos, National Organization for Women president.

Jonathan Routh

Jonathan Reginald Surdeval Routh (24 November 1927 – 4 June 2008) co-starred in the British version of the television show Candid Camera (1960–67) and co-starred with Germaine Greer and Kenny Everett in a later attempt at a revival, Nice Time (1968).

Margaret Fink

She was a member of the Sydney Push, a Sydney bohemian group of the 1950s and 1960s that boasted among its membership Lillian Roxon, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Frank Moorhouse.

Nation Review

Nation Review featured contributors such as Michael Leunig, Bob Ellis, Germaine Greer, Phillip Adams, Richard Beckett aka Sam Orr, Mungo MacCallum, John Hindle, Francis James, Patrick Cook, Morris Lurie, John Hepworth and Jenny Brown aka Zesta (now Jen Jewel Brown).

Ouyang Yu

Apart from several collections of poetry and a novel he has translated authors as diverse as Christina Stead, Xavier Herbert, Germaine Greer and

Strathfield massacre

He is also said to have possessed a copy of the book The Female Eunuch by feminist author Germaine Greer.

Thelma Forshaw

In January 1972 Forshaw wrote a review of Germaine Greer's book, The Female Eunuch (1970), for The Age which "has stirred up a considerable controversy".


see also

Sonny Mehta

Mehta began his publishing career in London, where he co-founded Paladin Books and was editorial director of Pan Books, with its Picador imprint, under which his first success was The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer.