In Tasmania, 2005 will be remembered as the year in which Margaret Scott died. She had been a defining spirit of Tasmanian literary and cultural life for decades. Born in Bristol in 1934, she grew up in wartime England, which she wrote about memorably in poems and fiction. She attended Newnham College, Cambridge where famously she was a contemporary of Sylvia Plath’s. She emigrated to Tasmania with her new husband, the Australian Michael Boddy, and their young son, (more…)