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South Australian Dr Barbara Wall is a writer and historian. While studying for an Arts degree at Adelaide University, she was awarded the John Howard Clark Scholarship and Prize, and the Tormore Prize.

She went on to teach English language and literature at Woodlands School and Presbyterian Girls College in Adelaide from 1952 to 1981, and during that time became a Fellow of the Australian College of Education.

After retirement she became a SSABSA examiner for English for 11 years. She continued her academic interests and gained a PhD from Flinders University for her 1987 thesis The tellers and the told, which became a book, The narrator's voice: the dilemma of children's fiction published in 1991. The book won the 1995 Book Award from The Children's Literature Association in the United States.

In 1994 she published Our Own Matilda, an account of the life and work of Matilda Evans, the first woman to publish a novel in South Australia.

Barbara Wall can be contacted by email or at 99 Summit Road, Crafers SA 5152, Australia.

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