Cecily Crozier

The family was well-to-do and Crozier's presence at weddings as flower girl or bridesmaid was reported in the social pages of Melbourne newspapers.

In 1940, noting Melbourne's lack of an avant-garde literary magazine, Cecily, then aged 29, with her cousins Sylvia, Eila and Irvine Heber Green (1913–1997) decided to publish one.

[11] aCOMMENT promoted experimental, often surrealist, writing and art, publishing the work of some of Australia's most prominent modernists of the 1940s, including James Gleeson, Albert Tucker, Michael Keon, Muir Holburn, Max Harris, Adrian Lawlor and Alister Kershaw.

[12] It ran at a loss, with costs often met by Crozier and Green, until it was forced to fold after the Winter issue of 1947 Divorced from Green, Crozier married Ernst Heydeman, a Jewish chemist who had escaped from his native Germany and spent the war years with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco before arriving in Australia about 1950, and whom she met through her piano teacher Dr Hermann Schilberger.

[14] Crozier had completed drafts of her unpublished autobiographical Memoirs of an Australian Woman before she died at a nursing home in Adelaide in 2006, at age 95.