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Malcolm John Horsley, b. 29 Sep 1925, Chatswood  , d. 12 Oct 1991, Singapore |
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1945 |
Married UK PRO Reg No 1Q1954 Hampstead 5c 1982 |
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| Family ID |
F408 |
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- Author: Deane, Shirley Joan
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Date of Birth: 1920
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Place of Birth: Melbourne
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Sex: female
Marital Status: Malcolm Horsley, artist, 3 sons
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Residence: expatriate: Mediterranean 1950
Education: tertiary: Melb Univ(BA Hons)
Occupation: teacher; travel writer; broadcaster; university lecturer
Work Details: English Lit Melb Univ, ABC 1944, Radio Aust Overseas Service, English teacher Yaound? (Cameroons) 1974-77
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Interests: travel
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Notes: Dau of Percy Deane, sec W.M.Hughes & PM's Dept
Research Sources: Bk Jkts; Bibl of Aust Womens Lit; ; Age 24 Nov 1962 p.17; SMH 16 Jul 1976 p.10
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The Sun-Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1953 - 1954) Sunday 26 September 1954 Page 67
GOATS GIVE WRITER
"AN INFERIORITY"
FROM A LONDON STAFF CORRESPONDENT
A YOUNG Australian housewife and spare-time
writer, Miss Shirley Deane, took only three weeks to write her first book, "Rocks and Olives," which has just been published in London.
This was not because Miss Deane is naturally such a quick scribe.
But three weeks was all the time she could spare from her chores of helping to run a goat farm, keeping house for her artist husband and two children, in between making radio broadcasts for the B.B.C., trying to get a play produced, and lecturing, travelling, writing, and working her way through Europe.
In 1950 Miss Deane, her former husband Anthony Underhill, a Sydney artist, and their 18-month-old son Christopher discovered a remote village in southern Italy hidden away high in the rocky mountains.
"Rocks and Olives" is the story of how this Australian family settled down in the isolated village and shared the simple life of its peasants.
Three Hour Climb
Miss Deane describes the night they arrived in the town of Positano and set out on foot for their new home in Monte Pertuso.
During the gruelling three hour climb up the moun- tains and over the rocks she found the reason for the old Italian saying?"Only men and goats climb to Monte Pertuso."
Their food was good though plain. They wore any old rags for clothes except on Sundays when they came out in their peasant costumes. When new cloth was needed it was woven in the village.
While her husband painted, Miss Deane, wrote a play, learnt how to cook spaghetti in 50 different ways and watched her "bello bambino" enslave the warm-hearted village women.
She is an honours graduate and an M.A. of Melbourne University where she was seven years on the staff.
She began broadcasting with the A.B.C. in Melbourne.
For two years after the war she was known as "Short Wave Shirl," for the Forces programme which she arranged and presented six nights a week.
She married Mr. Underhill in Australia and they came together to Britain in 1948. Their marriage was
dissolved and she recently married an artist, Mr. Malcolm Horsley, of Sydney.
At the moment Mr. and Mrs. Horsley with the children Christopher and Michael, are leading a busy artistic and rural life in a cottage on their goat and pig farm near Felsted, Essex.
There is just one problem. "Pedigree goats are not really a good thing to have around artists and writers," Miss Deane explains.
"They're so proud and haughty looking and are terribly, terribly temperamental.
"They're inclined to give you an awful inferiority complex."
MISS SHIRLEY DEANE (Mrs. Malcolm Horsley) whose book
"Rocks and Olives" has just been published in London, with her son MICHAEL
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