Coral Lansbury

Coral Lansbury
Coral Lansbury
Born	Coral Magnolia Lansbury; 14 October 1929; Melbourne, Australia
Died	3 April 1991 (aged 61); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	PhD, English, University of Auckland
Occupations	Scriptwriter; novelist; professor of English;
Spouses	; George Edwards (m. 1953; died 1953) Bruce Turnbull (m. 1955; div. 1963) John Salmon (m. 1963; div. 1969)
Children	Malcolm Turnbull
Relatives	Angela Lansbury (second cousin); Bruce Lansbury (second cousin); Edgar Lansbury (second cousin)
	Scientific career
Theses	Arcady and Utopia: a study of the influence of Charles Dickens on Australian life and culture with special reference to the life and ideas of William Guthrie Spence (1967); Australia in English literature in the nineteenth century (1969);

Coral Magnolia Lansbury (14 October 1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born feminist writer and academic. Working in the United States from 1969 until her death, she became Distinguished Professor of English and Dean of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University.

A former child actor and scriptwriter, Lansbury was the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction. The latter included The Reasonable Man: Trollope's Legal Fiction (1970), Elizabeth Gaskell: The Novel of Social Crisis (1975), and The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England (1985). Her best-known novel was The Grotto (1989).

Lansbury's son, Malcolm Turnbull, became the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.

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