Vivienne Rae-Ellis

Vivienne Rae-Ellis was born in the year 1930; she is an Australian writer. She has written sunder the penname, Antonia Bell.

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Vivienne Rae-Ellis was born in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia in the year 1930; she is the only daughter of the four children from the parent. Her parents were Linda, nee James (1908–1982) and Donald Thurstans (1904–1988). Soon after she was born, the family moved to the city of Hobart and it was there that they lived first at the Sandy Bay and then at the New Town, which was the place that she attended Ogilvy High School. She played the musical instrument called violin while she was still in school and she was a member of the basketball team of team of the school.

When she was through with her education, she served as a secretary in many Hobart businesses before she joined the administrative staff of the School of Physics at the University of Tasmania, and it was there that she met and in the year 1952 married William Frank Ellis and they had two kid together before they divorced in the year 1978.

Vivienne Rae-Ellis has worked as a columnist in the newspapers of the country, as a radio scriptwriter, a broadcaster, a TV program host and a public relation officer since the year 1952. She has also worked as an actress in many performing companies of the country including the Launceston Players.

Vivienne Rae-Ellis started writing novels and biographies in the 1960. She has written in several genres including children’s fiction, romance, historical fictions and non-fictions and also biographies and she has been producing articles and broadcasts for the newspapers and the journals of the country and United Kingdom.

She moved to United Kingdom in the year 1982. Vivienne Rae-Ellis is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and she is also a member of the Society of Authors.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Ø  Lively Libraries (1975)

Ø  True Ghost Stories of Our Own Time (1990)

Historical fiction

Ø  Queen Trucanini (1976; with Nancy Cato)

Children's fiction

Ø  Menace at Oyster Bay (1976)

Ø  The Tribe With No Feet (1978)

Biography

Ø  Trucanini: Queen or Traitor? (1976)

Ø  Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile (1979)

Ø  Black Robinson, Protector of Aborigines (1988)

Romance fiction

Ø  The Cavendish Affair (1980; as Antonia Bell)