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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Megan Doherty

A true trailblazer of the bold type

Dr Patricia Clarke in her Deakin home this week and (inset) working as a journalist in the 1950s. Main picture by Elesa Kurtz

At the age of 96, Dr Patricia Clarke has just published her 14th book.

"It keeps me alive," she says, of the researching and writing, as she sits in the lounge room of her Deakin home, a house she built with her late husband, Hugh, after they bought the land for auction at the Albert Hall in the early 1960s.

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