Kramer, Dame Leonie Judith

Kramer, Dame Leonie Judith

▪ Australian literary scholar
original name  Leonie Judith Gibson 
born Oct. 1, 1924, Melbourne

      Australian literary scholar and educator.

      Kramer studied at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Oxford and thereafter taught on Australian literature at various universities, serving as professor at the University of Sydney from 1968. She wrote several authoritative works on the Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson and was the editor of The Oxford History of Australian Literature (1981). She was also a prominent figure in several Australian educational, literary, and broadcasting organizations. She was created D.B.E. in 1983 and was chancellor of the University of Sydney (1991–2001).

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