Roslyn Jolly

Sydney-based scholar and travel writer Roslyn Jolly is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. As well as writing books on Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson, Roslyn is also an arts critic who loves exploring the world through food, books, history and exotic destinations.

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