Dear Merilyn

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Wakefield Press, 2003 - Art - 460 pages
Detailing Barbra Leslie's search for release from the self-contempt she felt after being sexually abused at the age of five and her shocking guilt following a backyard abortion at age 19, this autobiography reveals an artist finally at peace with herself. Leslie dicusses how she has become one of few Autralian painters able to earn a living from her art and reflects on her period of rebelliousness as an art student in the late 1950s and early 1960s. More than just an autobiography, Dear Merilyn is also an Australian family saga conveyed with fearless honesty, as the events described are by turns shocking, frightening, funny, and heartwarming.
 

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Contents

Section 1
24
Section 2
32
Section 3
59
Section 4
67
Section 5
70
Section 6
93
Section 7
131
Section 8
141
Section 12
309
Section 13
311
Section 14
315
Section 15
349
Section 16
357
Section 17
364
Section 18
381
Section 19
396

Section 9
229
Section 10
245
Section 11
278
Section 20
413
Section 21
415
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About the author (2003)

Barbra Leslie is a painter, former secondary school teacher, and lecturer in painting, design, and drawing.

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