11 Facts About Jill Roe

Jill Roe's grandparents had been early settlers of the western coast of South Australia.

In 1967, Jill Roe joined the newly founded Macquarie University as a lecturer in history.

Jill Roe remained at the university for 36 years, becoming a Professor Emerita upon her retirement in 2003.

Jill Roe wrote 19 entries for the ADB, and was editor of its 2005 supplement.

Jill Roe delivered the manuscript for Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography 26 years later in 2008, and it was published by HarperCollins.

Jill Roe acknowledged the book has "been a long time coming".

Jill Roe had previously written Franklin's entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and edited My Congenials: Miles Franklin and friends in letters, a compilation of Franklin's correspondence, which was published in 1993.

In 2016, Jill Roe published her memoir, Our Fathers Cleared the Bush, about her childhood on the Eyre Peninsula.

Jill Roe died after a long illness on 12 January 2017, at her home in Pearl Beach on the New South Wales Central Coast.

Jill Roe was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Jill Roe was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1991 and the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.