The life, advice, and many marriages of a ninety-something
Tasmanian domestic goddess, the real-life Dame Edna
Marjorie Bligh is the ninety-five-year-old Martha Stewart you
didn't know you were missing. Does your goldfish have constipation?
Feed it Epsom salts. Have you run out of blush? Cut a beet in half
and slap it on your cheeks. Are there possums in your ceiling?
"Housewife Superstar "will tell you how to get them out. Famous for
never wasting a thing, Marjorie crochets her bedspreads from
plastic bags and used panty hose, and protects the plants in her
garden with bras. In 1958, upon entering the food and craft
contests at her town show, she won in seventy-eight categories; the
next year she won in seventy-two but was denied the trophy by
jealous rivals.
Once divorced and twice widowed, Marjorie is, according to her
colossal fan Barry Humphries (of Dame Edna fame), "no slouch in the
matrimonial department." Her first husband, Cliff, was loving but
turned brutal. Her second marriage, to preacher and schoolteacher
Adrian, was punctuated by endless love notes, breakfasts in bed,
and territorial fights with his adult daughters. She snagged her
third husband, Eric--a bus driver--with promises of fruitcake and
flirtatious glances in his rearview mirror. Marjorie designed two
homes and a museum devoted to her creations, worked for half a
century as a journalist and columnist, and raised two sons, all
while building a devoted following. Danielle Wood's "Housewife
Superstar "is an illuminating look at a treasure.
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