Germaine Greer
(1939-), Writer and broadcaster; Professor of English and Comparative StudiesSitter in 10 portraits
Australian-born writer, broadcaster and critic. Greer travelled to England in 1964 to study English Literature at Cambridge University, earning a PhD in 1967. She lectured at the University of Warwick (1967-72) whilst working on The Female Eunuch (1970), her classic text. Her critically acclaimed books cover subjects such as women painters and writers, and include The Obstacle Race (1979), and Sex and Destiny (1984), Slip-Shod Sibyls (1995), The Whole Woman (1999), The Boy (2003) and Shakespeare's Wife (2007).
Watch a film clip of interviews with the sitter in the Media section below
Germaine Greer; Elizabeth Anne Reid
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, March 1975
NPG x194094
by Dudley Reed
bromide print on card mount, 1983
NPG x32169
by Polly Borland
chromogenic print, October 1999
NPG x88457
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