Jolley, Elizabeth

Japanese: ジョリー（英語表記）Jolley, Elizabeth

Born June 4, 1923 in Birmingham, England
[Died] 13 February 2007. Perth, Australia. Australian novelist. Real name Monica Elizabeth Knight. She was known for her dry, comedic novels with many eccentric characters, and especially for her affectionate portrayals of women. She grew up in a German-speaking British family and moved to Perth, Australia in 1959. Her first novel, Palomino, which she began writing in the late 1950s, was not published until 1980 because publishers were put off by the content. In 1976, she published her first collection of short stories, Five Acre Virgin. His other works include The Newspaper of Claremont Street (1981), Mr. Scobie's Riddle (1983), and An Innocent Gentleman (2001). He also wrote radio drama scripts. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1988, and was named a Living National Treasure in 1997.

Jolly
Joly, John

Born: 1857. Holywood
Died: December 8, 1933. Irish geologist from Dublin. Graduated from the University of Dublin and became a professor there (1897). He emphasized the role of heat from radioactive materials in crustal movement, and explained the periodicity of crustal movement in terms of the periodicity of heat dissipation and accumulation, announcing the so-called thermal cycle theory of crustal movement (1924). He is also known for estimating the age of the Earth to be about 100 million years, and for improving and inventing thermometers, steam calorimeters, and photometers. He was a member of the Royal Society of London (1892). His main work was Radioactivity and the History of the Earth's Surface (1924).

Jolly
Jolly, George

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[Died] c.1673 English actor. He was originally a member of the Fortune Theatre, but later moved to Germany and was active mainly in Frankfurt. He was one of the last English touring actors to have had an influence on German theater.

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[生]1923.6.4. イギリス，バーミンガム
[没]2007.2.13. オーストラリア，パース
オーストラリアの小説家。本名 Monica Elizabeth Knight。風変わりな登場人物が多数登場する乾いた喜劇タッチの小説を得意とし，特に女性たちを愛情をこめて描いた。ドイツ語を話すイギリスの家庭で育ち，1959年にオーストラリアのパースに転居。1950年代後半に書き始めた第1作『パロミノ』Palominoは，60歳の女医と，自分の兄の子を身ごもった若い女とのレズビアン関係を描いた作品で，出版社が内容を敬遠したため 1980年まで出版されなかった。1976年，初めての短編集『5エーカーの未開墾地』Five Acre Virginを出版。ほかに，『クレアモント通りの新聞』The Newspaper of Claremont Street（1981），『スコウビィ氏のなぞ』Mr. Scobie's Riddle（1983），『イノセント・ジェントルマン』An Innocent Gentleman（2001）などの作品がある。ラジオドラマの脚本執筆も手がけた。1988年オーストラリア勲章を受章，1997年人間国宝に選ばれた。

ジョリー
Joly， John

[生]1857. ホーリウッド
[没]1933.12.8. ダブリン
アイルランドの地質学者。ダブリン大学卒業。同大学教授 (1897) 。地殻変動における放射性物質の熱の役割を強調し，熱の放散と蓄積の周期性によって地殻変動の周期性を説明，いわゆる地殻変動の熱的輪廻説を発表した (1924) 。地球の年齢を約1億年と推定したこと，温度計，蒸気熱量計，光度計の改良，発明などでも知られる。ロンドン・ロイヤル・ソサエティ会員 (1892) 。主著『放射能と地球表層の歴史』 (1924) 。