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Eleven Letters To You
February 18 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Box Hill Historical Society kicks off 2024 with a talk by prominent literary critic, journalist and author Helen Elliott. Helen spent some time working in the Box Hill Library, commencing in 1965. She will speak of her memories of Box Hill. Copies of her memoir, Eleven Letters to You, will be available for sale at the meeting.
Sunday 18 February 2024 @ 2pm
Bert Lewis Room, 1st floor, Box Hill Library, 1040 Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill.
Gold coin donation
“Helen Elliott, well known as a literary critic and journalist, grew up in Boronia in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when it was in transition from countryside to suburbia. Out on the edge of Melbourne and at the very foot of the Dandenongs it was a setting that promised a new post-war life for returned servicemen and their young families as well as migrants. This very different memoir, styled as 11 letters to the neighbours, relatives teachers and friends, brings to life a very different time. Elliott’s recollections are sharp and poignant as she seeks out those parts of her upbringing and education that shaped her at a time of rapid social change.” Review by John Schauble in RHSV’s History News
Helen’s book was entered in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the Victorian Community History Awards.
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