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). Greer is currently Professor of English and Comparative Studies at Warwick University.
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by Paula Rego
pastel on paper laid on aluminium, 1995
NPG 6351
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
C-type colour print, October 1999
NPG x88457
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