January 29, 1939

Australians, like Americans, often hold a special place in their hearts for England. It must be genetic. Germaine Greer made a splash on the cultural scene in the 1970s with her feminist views. The author of many books, she has a fresh take on lots of topics. And now, this native of Melbourne Australia, lives in an English village, and dotes on the hedges around her cottage. And maintains a steady pace of writing books worth looking at, and sometimes, finishing. She is an exemplar of the 20th century existentialist assumption that man can create himself. Most people get over their anarchist ideals with time. Not Greer, and yet her prose is so lovely, her analysis so fresh, her silliness so courageous, that you sigh and wish her very well.

The merest sampling of her books:

The Change: Women, Ageing, and the Menopause (1991)
Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet (1995)
Shakespeare's Wife (2007)
White Beech: The Rainforest Years (2013)

And she wrote an article for The Oldie, a British magazine that bills itself as a new New Yorker magazine, and helmed by old friends of hers. "Confessions of a Cat Addict" was published in the March 3, 1993 issue.