Travelling with Veronica

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Susan Ballyn
University of Barcelona

I met Veronica in 1988 on my first trip to Australia. I had admired her as an academic since my undergraduate days but had no idea what was in store for me once I met her. Over the decades we met in places across the world and in Spain and each meeting was unique, an intellectual uplift and more than often an absolute hoot when we travelled together. In paying tribute to Veronica I would like to write about some of the incredible and on one occasion hair-raising, trips we shared

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Veronica Brady, Shirley Walker, Julian Croft, ASAL, EASA, EACLALS

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Ballyn, Susan. “Travelling with Veronica”. Coolabah, no. 22, pp. 6-9, doi:10.1344/co2018226-9.
Author Biography

Susan Ballyn, University of Barcelona

Sue Ballyn is Prof. Emerita at Barcelona University. She is the founder and Co-Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University which is fully recognized by the former as an Observatory. Her area of main research over the last twenty years has been and is the reconstruction of female convict biographies, the study and transcription of surgeons’ journals on female transports and work on convicts of non-British origin. She is a member of the Female Convicts Research Centre in Hobart, Tasmania. She is also a member of a project on Postcolonial Crime Fiction and another project on ageing.