Thea Astley wrote of the novel that " I am filled with envy by someone like Helen Garner for instance.

Craven, though, argues that her novella, The Children's Bach, " should put paid to the myth of Helen Garner as a mere literalist or reporter ", arguing, in fact, that it " is light years away from any sprawling-tell-it-all naturalism, it is concentrated realism of extraordinary formal polish and the amount of tonal variation which it gets from its seemingly simple plot is multifoliate to the point of being awesome ".

The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner is a controversial non-fiction book about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne.

Category: Books by Helen Garner

* The Spare Room ( 2008 ) Helen Garner

Writer Helen Garner, former member of parliament Caroline Hogg, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne John So, Painter John Brack and past director of the National Gallery of Australia James Mollison previously taught at the school.

In an interview with Candida Baker, Astley quotes Helen Garner as saying " I simply hate her style " and goes on to say " I can't resist using imagistic language.

( Jane Clifton-later of " Neighbours " fame writes in her autobiography that Monkey Grip author Helen Garner wrote of Clifton in the book.

Other notable writers to have emerged since the 1970s include Kate Grenville, David Malouf, Helen Garner, Janette Turner Hospital, Marion Halligan, Susan Johnson, Christopher Koch, Alex Miller, Shirley Hazzard, Richard Flanagan, Gerald Murnane, Brenda Walker, Rod Jones and Tim Winton.

* Helen Garner, Australian novelist

Helen Garner writes about this quality in her writing: " She will take a situation, a relationship, a moment of insight, a particular longing, and work on it in half a dozen different versions, making the characters older or younger, changing their gender or their class, gaoling or releasing a father, adding or subtracting a murder or a suicide ; and these repetitions and reusings, conscious but not to the point of being orchestrated, set up a pattern of echoes which unifies the world, and is most seductive and comforting ".

* Garner, Helen ( 1983 ) " Elizabeth Jolley: an appreciation " in Meanjin Vol 42 No 2 ( June 1983 )

Joe Cinque ’ s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law is a non-fiction book written by Australian author Helen Garner, and published in 2004.

Category: Books by Helen Garner

This is when he met his first girlfriend Christina Grönvall, with whom he had two children: Peter ( born 1963 ) and Helen ( born 1965 ).

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, the younger child and only son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants Victor, an assistant district attorney, and Helen Ilona ( née Gross ) Cukor.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf ; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as " an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain ", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.

Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary ( née Sheedy ) and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, a stockbroker.

Falwell and twin brother Gene were born in the Farview Heights region of Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of Helen and Carey Hezekiah Falwell.

Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, the third son of Dr. Charles Hay and Helen Leonard from Middleborough, Massachusetts, who had come to Salem to live with her sister.

In 1953, he married Elizabeth " Betty " Bottomley She was born on October 7, 1930 in Auburn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Frank Bottomley and Helen McLaren.

Rudolph Giuliani was born in an Italian-American enclave in East Flatbush in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the only child of working-class parents, Harold Angelo Giuliani ( 1908 – 1981 ) and Helen ( née D ' Avanzo ; 1909 – 2002 ), both first-generation Americans, children of Italian immigrants.

Appleton was born in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 1939 to Jewish parents: Helen Jacobs Appleton ( born Philadelphia, 1908 ) and Charles Leonard Appleton ( born Haim Eppel Boim in Kishenov, Moldavia, 1900 ).

Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Helen ( née Matthews ), a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler, who came from an upper-class family.

Helen Elizabeth Hunt ( born June 15, 1963 ) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter.

* Helen Slater ( born 1963 ), American film actor and singer-songwriter

Rick Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Northolt to Cyril Frank and Mildred Helen Wakeman.

Stephen Crane was born November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, to Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mary Helen Peck Crane, a clergyman's daughter.

He was the fourteenth and last child born to the couple ; the 45 year old Helen Crane had lost her four previous children, who each died within one year of birth.

Helen Atkinson-Wood ( born 14 March 1955 ) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire.

* Helen Clifton ( born 1948 ), wife of the 18th General of The Salvation Army

Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.

Zeus also transformed himself into a goose and mated with Nemesis, who produced an egg from which Helen was born.

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

* October 7 – Helen Vinson, American actress ( b. 1907 )

* December 7 – Helen Watts, Welsh contralto

They had three children together: John Philip, Jr. ( April 1, 1881 – May 18, 1937 ), Jane Priscilla ( August 7, 1882 – October 28, 1958 ), and Helen ( January 21, 1887 – October 14, 1975 ).

He died on 7 January 1988, from a combination of bronchitis, influenza and jaundice, in Arkley, Barnet, aged 74, survived by his widow Helen.

* American Women's Singles Championship – Elisabeth Moore defeats Helen Homans 6 – 4 5 – 7 6 – 1

* Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Charlotte Cooper Sterry ( GB ) defeats Helen Jackson ( GB ) 7 – 5 8 – 6

The Broadway debut of Long Day's Journey Into Night took place at the Helen Hayes Theatre on 7 November 1956, shortly after its American premiere at New Haven's Shubert Theatre.

As Radio 7, regular presenters included Penny Haslam, Helen Aitken, Kerry McCarthy, Wes Butters, Jim Lee, Joanna Pinnock, Alex Riley and Michaela Saunders.

In April 1874, Ferris returned to his home state and on December 23 in Fulton he married Helen Frances Gillespie ( born September 7, 1853 ).

* American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Hellwig defeats Aline Terry 7 – 5 3 – 6 6 – 0 3 – 6 6 – 3

* French Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody ( USA ) defeats Simone Mathieu ( France ) 7 – 5, 6 – 1

Nicola Helen Murray ( d. 7 November 1777 ), died without children

On June 7, 1925, Moe Howard married Helen Schonberger, a cousin of magician Harry Houdini.

Guy d ' Hardelot ( August 1858 – January 7, 1936 ) was the pen name of Helen Rhodes ( nee Helen Guy ), a French composer, pianist, and teacher.

Helen Suzman, DBE ( 7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009 ) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.

* January 7 – Pioneering aviatrix Helen Richey is found dead at the age of 37 in her New York City apartment, apparently having committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills.

* Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody ( USA ) defeats Helen Jacobs ( USA ) 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 7 – 5

Helen Clark MacInnes ( October 7, 1907, Glasgow – September 20, 1985, New York City ) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

* Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Dorothy Round Little ( Great Britain ) defeats Helen Jacobs ( USA ) 6 – 2, 5 – 7, 6 – 3

* French Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Scriven Vivian ( Great Britain ) defeats Helen Jacobs ( USA ) 7 – 5, 4 – 6, 6 – 1