Teenagers are normally embarrassed by their mothers. Germaine Greer was particularly so. Elizabeth Kleinhenz in her new biography writes: ‘Germaine learned to be selective when choosing which boys to bring home, because her mother was quite likely to open the front door wearing underpants on her head (to protect her hairstyle) and little else “except [her] sun-tan”…’
The biography is the first to draw on Greer’s 487-box archive which she sold to Melbourne University in 2013.
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