Susan Magarey

Professor Susan Margaret Magarey (born 23 April 1943) AM, FASSA, is an Australian historian and author, most notable for her historic works and biographies of Australian women.^[1][2]

The daughter of James Rupert Magarey (1914–1990),^[3] later Sir Rupert Magarey,^[4] and Catherine Mary Magarey (1918–1989), née Gilbert,^[5][6] Susan Margaret Magarey was born in Brisbane on 23 April 1943.^[7]

The first of four children, she has one brother, James (1946–),^[8] and two sisters, Catherine (1948–1972),^[9] and Mary Elizabeth (1952–).^[10][11]

She married John Christopher Eade in 1966; they divorced in 1977.^{[contradictory]}

External videos
Susan Magarey's contribution to "Work or marriage? Dilemmas for women 1960s", in the series The Making of Modern Australia (ABC Education)[12]

Educated at Wilderness School in Adelaide – she was head prefect in 1960 – she attended both the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University.^[13] There, studying history, English literature, and education, Magarey attained the following:

• B.A.(Hons) – Adelaide (1964)
• Dip.Ed. – Adelaide (1965)
• M.A. – ANU (1972)^[14]
• PhD – ANU (1976)^[15]

• 2006 – Member of the Order of Australia^[16]
• 2005 – Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• 1986 – Walter McRae Russell Award^[17] for Unbridling the Tongues of Women, first published 1985^[18]

The Magarey Medal for biography is a biennial prize with a substantial award. The prize is awarded to the female author who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject in the preceding two years.^[19] The prize is donated by Susan Magarey.

Prize winners have been:

• 2004 – Heather Goodall and Isabel Flick, Isabel Flick: the Many Lives of an Extraordinary Aboriginal Woman, Allen and Unwin
• 2006 – Prue Torney-Parlicki, Behind the News: a Biography of Peter Russo, UWA Press
• 2008 – Sylvia Martin, Ida Leeson: a Life, Allen and Unwin
• 2010 – Jill Roe, Stella Miles Franklin: a Biography, Fourth Estate
• 2012 – Sheila Fitzpatrick, My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood, Melbourne University Press
• 2014 – Fiona Paisley, The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe, Aboriginal Studies Press
• 2016 – Libby Connors, Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier, Allen and Unwin
• 2018 – Alexis Wright, Tracker, Giramondo^[20]
• 2020 – Helen Ennis, Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography, 4th Estate^[21]
• 2022 – Bernadette Brennan, Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears, Allen and Unwin^[22]
• 2024 – Ann-Marie Priest, My Tongue Is My Own: A life of Gwen Harwood, La Trobe University Press^[23]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2017)

• Eade, Susan Margaret (1971). A Study of Catherine Helen Spence, 1825–1910 (M.A. thesis). Australian National University.
• Eade, Susan Margaret (November 1975). The Reclaimers: A Study of the Reformatory Movement in England and Wales, 1846–1893 (PDF) (PhD thesis). Australian National University. OCLC 222119517. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

• Eade, Susan (9 December 1972). "Horne from whoa to go". The Canberra Times. Vol. 47, no. 13302. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 10. Retrieved 22 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
• Magarey, Susan, "The Bolter", [Review of Ann Moyal's A Woman of Influence: Science, Men and History. UWA Publishing]. Australian Book Review, volume 364, (September 2014), p. 40.

• Harrison, Sharon M. "Magarey, Susan Margaret". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
• Heywood, Anne (8 March 2019). "Magarey, Susan (1943 – )". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
• Wallace, Ilona (1 May 2015). "Susan Magarey: Australian Feminism and Dangerous Ideas". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

• Small photo, www.adelaide.edu.au