- Title
- From their brilliant careers: Polly Stepford (1932-1997)
- Creator
- O'Neill, Ryan
- Relation
- Meanjin Vol. 75, Issue 3, p. 134-138
- Relation
- https://meanjin.com.au/fiction/from-their-brilliant-careers-3
- Publisher
- Meanjin Company
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Liberal Party politician Polly Stepford was born Pauline Lord in the western Sydney suburb of Baynton on 25 August 1932. She came from an influential family; her mother Antonia was a well-known socialite and her father Otto was president of the local branch of the Liberal Party. As well as this, Otto owned more than 50 properties around the city, most of them in a state of such squalor that the Daily Trumpet had named him 'Slum' Lord in the 1920s. Polly was educated at a private girls' school, before commencing an economics degree at the University of Sydney in 1949. It was here that she joined the Australian Liberal Students Federation, penning articles for the organisation's newsletter and quickly making a name for herself as a formidable debater. Polly was less successful in her academic studies, failing all of her first-year subjects. Shortly before resitting her exams, which Polly passed with flying colours, her father donated $50,000 to the university's infrastructure development fund.
- Subject
- creative writing; memoirs; Australian literature
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356688
- Identifier
- uon:31754
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-6293
- Language
- eng
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