Breakfast With Beaverbrook : Memoirs of an Independent Woman

by Ann Moyal

Ann Moyal's is a life lived to the full, if at times unconventionally. Three-times married, she has always sought to balance her life as a woman with her varied working with the vivid and controversial Lord Beaverbrook, co-founding the Australian Dictionary of Biography, becoming a 'cause celebre' as an academic at Griffith University, and later choosing independence and emerging as a leading social hisotrian of Australian science, telecommunication and technology. In Breakfast With Beaverbrook she has balanced an exploration of her early life and career highlights on the world's stage with the more complex strands of maturity and achievement.

Genres: Biography

218 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Ann Moyal was an Australian historian known for her work in the history of science.

Reviews

[Jane Routley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I got this back in the 1990's when it was discarded after one of the Telstra libraries closed down and I thought it was time I read it. Its a surprisingly interesting memoir of a woman of my mothers generation working as an independent researcher and historian in England and Australia. Interesting insight into the social mores of the time and the history of the study of science history in Australia. She met the Kennedy clan who were lovely and welcoming right up to the point she refused to enter become one of Joe mistresses. Then nothing. Curious.

[Dr Susan Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an autobiographical account of Ann Moyal's early life in Britain when she was honing her journalistic and writing skills working for one of the nation's 'great' newspaper men. Fascinating and enjoyable read with insights into the contemporary lives in the post-war era including her glimpse of Winston Churchill