Background
BRISSENDEN, Robert was born on March 13, 1928 in Wentworthville, N.S.W. Son of Arthur Piercy Brissenden and Nellie Annie Rogers.
BRISSENDEN, Robert was born on March 13, 1928 in Wentworthville, N.S.W. Son of Arthur Piercy Brissenden and Nellie Annie Rogers.
Cowra High School, Sydney University and University of Leeds.
Assistant Lecturer Canberra University College 1953-1954, lecturer and Senior Lecturer 1957-1966. Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in English Australian National University 1957-1966, Senior Research Fellow in History of Ideas 1966-1969, Reader in English 1969-1985. Now full-time novelist and poet.
Literary.
President Australasian and Pac Society for 18th Century Studies 1970-1976, Allied Command Transformation, and Canberra and South.E. Region Environment Centres 1974-1981. Chairman Literature Board Australia Council 1977-1981. Fellow Australian Academy, of Humanities since 1976.
Then.
Married Rosemary Loma Groves in 1959.