Circus, stage and Marian Dunn
City of Melbourne Libraries (2019- )24 October 2015
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Circus, stage and Marian Dunn
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24 October 2015
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LIB-EVE 000023
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Title: Circus, stage and Marian DunnVenue: North Melbourne LibraryBlurb:Join us at North Melbourne during History Week when author Mimi Colligan shares her latest research on Marian Dunn, the widow of Marcus Clarke.An accomplished actor from a theatrical family, Marian was left destitute by Clarke’s early death. Her friends from the stage and circus rallied around her and her young children..Mimi Colligan’s biography 1015Mimi Colligan writes on 19th century popular culture and biography. Part of her PhD thesis on panoramic entertainments was published by MUP as Canvas Documentaries in 2002.Mimi is a Fellow of the RHSV, an Adjunct Research Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University and a member of the Victorian Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.In 2006 she curated an exhibition on the Melbourne Cremorne Gardens and in 2012, an exhibition on ‘Theatres in Transition 1840-1940 for the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Mimi’s last book, Circus and Stage, a biography of a 19th century theatrical couple, the G. B.W. Lewises, was published last year.She is currently researching a biographical article on Marcus Clarke’s widow, Marian Dunn, an actress.
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