Coral Lansbury

Coral Lansbury (1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born writer and academic.

Lansbury was born in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. She earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney. She married Bruce Turnbull and was the mother of Malcolm Turnbull.^[1] The Turnbulls separated in 1960s and she later worked as an academic in the United States. Her major interest was Victorian literature. She was the Professor Of English at Rutgers University and first dean of the Graduate School at the Camden Campus of Rutgers University.^[2] At her death she was the Dean of Women at Rutgers.

Lansbury's works include:

Lansbury, Coral (1975). Elizabeth Gaskell: The Novel of Social Crisis. Elek, 204. ISBN 0236311476.
Lansbury, Coral (1970). Arcady in Australia: The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-century. Melbourne University Press, 202.
Lansbury, Coral (1970). The Reasonable Man: Trollope's Legal Fiction. Princeton University Press, 227. ISBN 0691064571.
Lansbury, Coral (1985). The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England. University of Wisconsin Press, 212. ISBN 0299102505.
Lansbury, Coral (1985). Ringarra. Harper & Row, 212. ISBN 0060155167.
Lansbury, Coral (1985). Felicity. Dutton, 189. ISBN 0525245618.
Lansbury, Coral (1989). The Grotto. Knopf, 537. ISBN 0394574389.
Lansbury, Coral (1989). Sweet Alice. E.P. Dutton. ISBN 0525248250.