(Ellen) Dymphna Cusack Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of (Ellen) Dymphna Cusack.

(Ellen) Dymphna Cusack Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of (Ellen) Dymphna Cusack.
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Dymphna Cusack regarded herself, in Jean-Paul Sartre's phrase, as an "écrivain engagé"--one for whom the pen was mightier than the sword. According to Andrea Lofthouse in Who's Who of Australian Women (1982), Cusack said,

I believe that a writer should be in the vanguard of society, analysing her community, its influence on people, and describing through her characters its benign or malign results. I am a socialist, believing that no country or individual should own less than another. As a humanist, I believe that all persons are equally important in life.

Diminutive in stature, with a fragile constitution frequently ravaged by remitting/relapsing symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS; her "dog's disease"), she was, nonetheless, a courageous and high-profile antinuclear activist in the World Peace Movement during the Cold War era.

A committed social reformer, she wrote her own interpretation of living history as she dramatized the...

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