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Dame Leonie Judith Kramer

Australian literary scholar
Also known as: Leonie Judith Gibson

Dame Leonie Judith Kramer (born October 1, 1924, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia—died April 20, 2016, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales) was an 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 in 1968–89. She wrote several authoritative works on the Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson and was the editor...