15 Facts About Coral Lansbury

Coral Magnolia Lansbury was an Australian-born feminist writer and academic.

Coral Lansbury was a second cousin of the British film and television actor Angela Lansbury.

Coral Lansbury attended North Sydney Girls High School and sat the NSW Leaving Certificate in 1945, entering the University of Sydney in 1947 as an unmatriculated student.

Coral Lansbury studied Arts and achieved first-class honours, but she was ineligible to graduate as she had not matriculated.

Coral Lansbury was the recipient of the George Arnold Wood Memorial Prize, awarded annually for proficiency in History II, and the Maud Stiles Memorial Prize, awarded annually to a woman student for proficiency in History II.

Coral Lansbury wrote a master's thesis in 1967 at the University of Auckland titled Arcady and Utopia: a study of the influence of Charles Dickens on Australian life and culture with special reference to the life and ideas of William Guthrie Spence.

At 19, Coral Lansbury started work at the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Coral Lansbury's father worked in the early radio industry in Australia with the ABC, and he got her a part in a radio drama.

Coral Lansbury worked as both a scriptwriter and actor in radio during its heyday.

Coral Lansbury worked for the ABC into the 1960s but as television supplanted radio drama she turned more to academic interests.

Coral Lansbury was president of the Victorian Studies Association and of the Victorian executive committee of the Modern Language Association.

Coral Lansbury became Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the first dean of the Graduate School at the Camden Campus.

Coral Lansbury was his fourth wife and was 40 years his junior.

Coral Lansbury had a "whirlwind romance" with Bruce Turnbull, who became her second husband, and in 1954, she gave birth prematurely to her son, Malcolm Turnbull.

Coral Lansbury died of bowel cancer on 3 April 1991, aged 61, at her home in Philadelphia.