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Mona Brand (22 October 1915 – 1 August 2007) was a twentieth-century Australian playwright, poet and freelance writer. She also wrote under the name Alexis Fox. Whilst living, Brand was more well known in Europe than in Australia, so much so that Brand subtitled her 1995 autobiography, ''Enough Blue Sky: the autobiography of Mona Brand... an unknown well-known writer.'' ==Early life== Brand was born in Sydney on 22 October 1915, to Alexander and Violet Brand (née Nixon). She had an older brother, John, and a younger, Deryck. In the early 1930s, her father was second engineer on ship ''S.S. Cape Leeuwin'' servicing lighthouses and lightships between Brisbane and Darwin. There were literary influences in her family. In one letter to Brand, her father included an original poem ''The Carpentaria Lightship'' which she unsuccessfully attempted to have published in ''The Bulletin''. Brand's mother, Violet Nixon, was the youngest daughter of journalist, government surveyor, architect and poet Francis Hodgson Nixon (1832–1883), whose collection of poetical pieces ''The Legends and Lays of Peter Perfume'' putatively 'collected, corrected and edited by Francis H' was published in Melbourne by F. F. Bailliere in 1865.〔''AustLit'' http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWork&workId=C%235R]〕 When Brand was seven years old, her mother died of a self-induced abortion, and she was sent to live with relatives in Rockhampton, attending the Rockhampton Girl's Grammar School. At the age of eleven she moved back to Sydney, finishing her education at North Sydney Girls' High School. Brand wrote of her childhood feelings of displacement in her autobiography, ''Enough Blue Sky'', which she published in 1995. She often felt the disparity between her own treatment and the treatment her brothers received, and noticed other disparities in class and race from an early age. She believed this informed her later writing and opinions. When she was in high school she aspired to become a journalist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mona Brand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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