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Veronica Brady IBVM (5 January 1929 – 20 August 2015) was an Australian religious sister who was a noted writer and academic. She was one of the first Australian religious sisters to broadcast on radio and to teach at a secular university.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Australian Biography )〕 She was a member of the inaugural board of the Australian Broadcasting Company in the 1980s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Eureka Street.com.au )〕 Brady was an authority on Nobel Prize-winning Australian author Patrick White and wrote ''South of My Days'', a biography of Australian poet Judith Wright.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Radio National )〕 ==Career== Veronica Brady was born in Melbourne in 1929. After teaching at Loreto Convent in Kirribilli, New South Wales, Brady went to the University of Western Australia in 1972 and became an associate professor in 1991. She was a professor of Australian literature at that university.〔 Brady was known for being outspoken. She publicly criticised the Vatican's stance on abortion, homosexuality and contraception, was involved in the Aboriginal rights movement and the anti-uranium mining lobby as well as supporting the ordination of women as priests in the Catholic Church.〔 Brady's writings included ''Caught in the Draught'' and ''Polyphonies of the Self''. Brady died on 20 August 2015 in Western Australia at the age of 86. She had been in care for the previous two years and had Alzheimer's disease. Kath Jordan's biography of Brady ''Larrikin Angel'' was published by Roundhouse Press in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Radio National: Late Night Live )〕 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「Veronica Brady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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