"The Imaginative World of Elizabeth Jolley Australian writer" (1986)

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This episode of the ABC series "Women on Women" was introduced by well-known actor Ruth Cracknell.

It was titled "The Imaginative World of Elizabeth Jolley Australian writer" and aired on the ABC in 1986. Promos are included to help set the period ambience.

Elizabeth Jolley was a well-known novelist with a detailed wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Elizabeth_Jolley

Her novel The Well was adapted into a 1997 feature film by Samantha Lang, starring Miranda Otto and Pamela Rabe, though obviously that was a good decade after this profile was made.

The show was produced and directed by Christina Wilcox.

Details of Wilcox could be found here.
https://christinawilcox.com.au/
about.php

Australian filmmaker Christina Wilcox's films have been screened on television in Australia and around the world.
She has received many awards including an AFI Award for Best Direction - short film in 1987 and The Grand Prix at the 1988 Montreal Festival of Films on Art .
Christina began her documentary career with the film A Voice for the Wilderness in 1983.
Sands of Time, followed in 1985, a doco about the human impact on the natural environment of Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world.
Then followed a series of films on the environment and biographies of Australian artists.