Editing Judith Wright (section)

==Biography==
Judith Wright was born in [[Armidale, New South Wales]]. The eldest child of [[Phillip Wright]] and his first wife, Ethel, she spent most of her formative years in [[Brisbane]] and [[Sydney]].<ref name="Cornwell2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/wrig-a31.shtml|title=Australian poet Judith Wright (1915–2000): An appreciation|last=Cornwell|first=Tony|date=31 August 2000|publisher=[[World Socialist Web Site]]|access-date=11 February 2007}}</ref> Wright was of [[Cornish people|Cornish]] ancestry.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&q=bob+hawke+cornwall&pg=PA234|title=The Australian people: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-521-80789-0|author=James Jupp}}</ref> Following the early death of her mother, she lived with her aunt and then boarded at [[New England Girls' School]] after her father's remarriage in 1929. After graduating, Wright studied philosophy, English, psychology and history at the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name="Cornwell2" /><ref name="heywood2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0114b.htm|title=Wright, Judith Arundell (1915–2000)|last=Heywood|first=Anne|date=11 September 2001|publisher=[[Australian Women's Archives Project]]|access-date=11 February 2007}}</ref> At the beginning of [[World War II]], she returned to her father's [[Station (Australian agriculture)|station]] ([[ranch]]) to help during the shortage of labour caused by the war.

Wright's first book of poetry, ''The Moving Image'', was published in 1946 while she was working at the [[University of Queensland]] as a research officer. Then, she had also worked with [[Clem Christesen]] on the literary magazine ''[[Meanjin]],'' the first edition of which was published in late 1947.<ref name="heywood2" /> In 1950 she moved to [[Mount Tamborine, Queensland]], with the novelist and abstract philosopher Jack McKinney. Their daughter Meredith was born in the same year. They married in 1962, but Jack was to live only until 1966.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150293b.htm|title=McKinney, Jack Philip (1891–1966)|last=Wright|first=Judith|chapter=Jack Philip McKinney (1891–1966) |year=2000|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |dictionary=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]|access-date=11 February 2007}}</ref>

In 1966, she published ''The Nature of Love'', her first collection of short stories, through Sun Press, Melbourne. Set mainly in Queensland, they include 'The Ant-lion', 'The Vineyard Woman', 'Eighty Acres', 'The Dugong', 'The Weeping Fig' and 'The Nature of Love', all first published in The Bulletin. Wright was nominated for the 1967 [[Nobel Prize for Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Forteckning over forslag till 1967 ars Nobelpris i litteratur|url=http://www.svenskaakademien.se/sites/default/files/forslagslista_1967.pdf|website=Swedish Academy (Svenska akademien)|access-date=13 January 2018}}</ref>

With [[David Fleay]], [[Kathleen McArthur]] and [[Brian Clouston]], Wright was a founding member and, from 1964 to 1976, president, of the [[Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland]]. In 1991, she was the second Australian to receive the [[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]].<ref name="heywood2" />

She was involved in the [[Poets Union]].<ref name=slnswpu>{{cite web | title=Poets Union of New South Wales - records, 1977-2000| website=[[State Library of New South Wales]]| url=http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110312144 | access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>

For the last three decades of her life, Wright lived near the New South Wales town of [[Braidwood, New South Wales|Braidwood]].<ref>[http://www.twofiresfestival.com/twofires/judith/ The Two Fires Festival] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224060559/http://www.twofiresfestival.com/twofires/judith/ |date=24 December 2008 }}</ref> She moved to the Braidwood area to be closer to [[H. C. Coombs|H. C. "Nugget" Coombs]], her lover of 25 years, who was based in Canberra.<ref name="capp2">{{cite journal |last1=Capp |first1=Fiona |title=In the Garden |journal=The Monthly |date=June 2009 |url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/june/1274320360/fiona-capp/garden#mtr |url-access=subscription |access-date=2020-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Meacham |first1=Steve |title=Secret love revealed: the poet and the former Reserve Bank chief |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-love-revealed-the-poet-and-the-former-reserve-bank-chief-20090603-bvqg.html |access-date=2020-06-08 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |date=2009-06-04}}</ref>

Wright started to lose her hearing in her mid-20s and became completely deaf by 1992.<ref name="capp2" />