Gardiner, Sue Clilverd, Libby Smith, Marilyn Chapple, Denise Bradley, Robbie Brentnall, Richard Walsh, Mungo MacCallum, Katherine Cummings, Peter Grose, Lee Cataldi and Winton Higgins.
Chrissie de Looze, Daniel Le Maire, Sue Sheridan and Michael Chesterman provided information about the early London years. American memories came from Tom Bell, Henry Breitrose, Mike Rubbo, Jill Roehrig Olson and Tomas Kalmar.
The Hill sistersâVidya Jones, Chrissie Magid and Catherine Knolesâand the Herbert siblingsâAnn Fenton, Diana Herbert and Tim Herbertâalong with James Hughes and Deidre Rubenstein recalled the ashram period. Dave Codling didnât miss a beat when I tracked him down in Yorkshire to quiz him about an affair forty years ago. Madeleineâs connection with All Saints was described by Frances Barrett, Alex Hill, Celia Irvine, David Bambridge and Jacqueline Bateman. Teresa Attlee, Rob Tooley and Kathy Tooley spoke warmly of the friend met in Greece. Thanks to Robert McPherson, Felicity Marno and Sir Stephen Mitchell for recollections of Madeleine as antique dealer and friend.
Madeleineâs agent and publishers encouraged the project. Thanks to Esther Whitby, Christopher Potter, Sarah Lutyens and Kent Carroll. Susannah Godman and Jane Holdsworth, who were so close to Madeleine at the end, require special thanks. Bruce Beresford, Madeleineâs literary executor, was an enthusiast from the start, and Clive James, an unabashed St John fan, helped via email.
Thanks also to Sarah Middleton, Peta Worth, Steve Lippincott, Aaron Lippincott , Priscilla and David Maxwell, Georg Kalmar, Jane Cornwell, Martha Ansara, Andy Costain, John McDonnell, Siobahn McDonnell and Phil Jones. Many people helped with documentation: Laura Ginters; staff at the National Library of Australia and the New South Wales State archives; Chris Fowler and staff at the Oxford Brookes University archives in the UK; Evangeline Galettis, school archivist at St Catherineâs as well as Averil Condren and Beryl Cato; Donna Hughes, executive officer at the Queenwood Old Girls Association; and Chris Jenkins, who helped interpret Sylvetteâs medical records. Kathy Kettler was hard to find but the effort was worth it to hear her joy when told Madeleine had dedicated a novel to her. Angela and Darryl Miller, the current owners of Number 9 The Rampart, generously allowed me to view Madeleineâs childhood home, and the residents of 53A Colville Gardens let me see inside her London flat.
Madeleine is a book thanks to the vision of Michael Heyward and the team at Text, especially senior editor Jane Pearson, who transformed my draft.
Thanks, as always, to my colleagues at the Australian for their conversation and interest.
I am grateful to all those who read chapters, provided feedback, or simply tolerated my Madeleine obsession over two years, especially Melinda Jamieson and Mathew Trinca (who also fed me during an Italian winter), Bruce Wood (ditto in London), Lyndall Crisp, Geraldine Doogue, Bob and Mathilde Swift, David Harman, Robin Trinca, Warren Scott, Jenny McPhee and Chris Ballantyne. Special thanks to my mother, Jo Trinca, for her unconditional support.
PHOTOS
Feiga and Jean Cargher, Paris, 1916.
Frederick de Porte St John, with wife Hannah and children. Front, from left: Florence, Pamela and Margaret. Back, from left: Roland and Ted.
A pregnant Sylvette St John, Sydney, 1941.
Building a life in Castlecrag, circa 1950:
from left, John and Margaret Minchin, Sylvette and Ted.
First encounters: Ted, home from the front in 1943, with Madeleine, fifteen months.
All to myself: Madeleine, aged four, with Sylvette and Ted, Sydney, circa 1945.
Happy families: the St Johns at Castlecrag, 1953.
Madeleine and Colette in 1955, the year after Sylvetteâs death. âSmiling for the cameraâ, Madeleine wrote in her photograph album.
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Chris Tillam and Madeleine in their apartment in Cambridge, Mass,
Chrissie de Looze, Daniel Le Maire, Sue Sheridan and Michael Chesterman provided information about the early London years. American memories came from Tom Bell, Henry Breitrose, Mike Rubbo, Jill Roehrig Olson and Tomas Kalmar.
The Hill sistersâVidya Jones, Chrissie Magid and Catherine Knolesâand the Herbert siblingsâAnn Fenton, Diana Herbert and Tim Herbertâalong with James Hughes and Deidre Rubenstein recalled the ashram period. Dave Codling didnât miss a beat when I tracked him down in Yorkshire to quiz him about an affair forty years ago. Madeleineâs connection with All Saints was described by Frances Barrett, Alex Hill, Celia Irvine, David Bambridge and Jacqueline Bateman. Teresa Attlee, Rob Tooley and Kathy Tooley spoke warmly of the friend met in Greece. Thanks to Robert McPherson, Felicity Marno and Sir Stephen Mitchell for recollections of Madeleine as antique dealer and friend.
Madeleineâs agent and publishers encouraged the project. Thanks to Esther Whitby, Christopher Potter, Sarah Lutyens and Kent Carroll. Susannah Godman and Jane Holdsworth, who were so close to Madeleine at the end, require special thanks. Bruce Beresford, Madeleineâs literary executor, was an enthusiast from the start, and Clive James, an unabashed St John fan, helped via email.
Thanks also to Sarah Middleton, Peta Worth, Steve Lippincott, Aaron Lippincott , Priscilla and David Maxwell, Georg Kalmar, Jane Cornwell, Martha Ansara, Andy Costain, John McDonnell, Siobahn McDonnell and Phil Jones. Many people helped with documentation: Laura Ginters; staff at the National Library of Australia and the New South Wales State archives; Chris Fowler and staff at the Oxford Brookes University archives in the UK; Evangeline Galettis, school archivist at St Catherineâs as well as Averil Condren and Beryl Cato; Donna Hughes, executive officer at the Queenwood Old Girls Association; and Chris Jenkins, who helped interpret Sylvetteâs medical records. Kathy Kettler was hard to find but the effort was worth it to hear her joy when told Madeleine had dedicated a novel to her. Angela and Darryl Miller, the current owners of Number 9 The Rampart, generously allowed me to view Madeleineâs childhood home, and the residents of 53A Colville Gardens let me see inside her London flat.
Madeleine is a book thanks to the vision of Michael Heyward and the team at Text, especially senior editor Jane Pearson, who transformed my draft.
Thanks, as always, to my colleagues at the Australian for their conversation and interest.
I am grateful to all those who read chapters, provided feedback, or simply tolerated my Madeleine obsession over two years, especially Melinda Jamieson and Mathew Trinca (who also fed me during an Italian winter), Bruce Wood (ditto in London), Lyndall Crisp, Geraldine Doogue, Bob and Mathilde Swift, David Harman, Robin Trinca, Warren Scott, Jenny McPhee and Chris Ballantyne. Special thanks to my mother, Jo Trinca, for her unconditional support.
PHOTOS
Feiga and Jean Cargher, Paris, 1916.
Frederick de Porte St John, with wife Hannah and children. Front, from left: Florence, Pamela and Margaret. Back, from left: Roland and Ted.
A pregnant Sylvette St John, Sydney, 1941.
Building a life in Castlecrag, circa 1950:
from left, John and Margaret Minchin, Sylvette and Ted.
First encounters: Ted, home from the front in 1943, with Madeleine, fifteen months.
All to myself: Madeleine, aged four, with Sylvette and Ted, Sydney, circa 1945.
Happy families: the St Johns at Castlecrag, 1953.
Madeleine and Colette in 1955, the year after Sylvetteâs death. âSmiling for the cameraâ, Madeleine wrote in her photograph album.
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Chris Tillam and Madeleine in their apartment in Cambridge, Mass,
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