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Australian historian

Professor Susan Margaret Magarey (born 23 April 1943) AM, FASSA, is an Australian historian and author, most notable for her historic works and biographies of Australian women.^[1][2]

Family

The daughter of James Rupert Magarey (1914–1990),^[3] later Sir Rupert Magarey,^[4] and Catherine Mary Magarey (1918–1989), née Gilbert,^[5][6] Susan Margaret Magarey was born in Brisbane on 23 April 1943.^[7]

The first of four children, she has one brother, James (1946–),^[8] and two sisters, Catherine (1948–1972),^[9] and Mary Elizabeth (1952–).^[10][11]

She married John Christopher Eade in 1966; they divorced in 1977.^{[contradictory]}

Education

Educated at Wilderness School in Adelaide – she was head prefect in 1960 – she attended both the University of Adelaide and the Australian National Unive