As good as a yarn with you : letters between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw, and Eleanor Dark / edited by Carole Ferrier.
"In a fascinating collection of correspondence six Australian women writers discuss their work, personal lives, and views of the world. These previously unpublished letters were written between 1930 and 1975 with the purpose of providing sympathetic support and became a source of friendship. Ea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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| Summary: | "In a fascinating collection of correspondence six Australian women writers discuss their work, personal lives, and views of the world. These previously unpublished letters were written between 1930 and 1975 with the purpose of providing sympathetic support and became a source of friendship. Each of the women was centrally engaged with the social and political issues of her time, and these letters appear as a continuing dialogue written over three decades, from the Depression with all its struggles and militancy, the nationalism and chauvinism of the Second World War, through the conservatism of the Cold War. As nonfictional writing, the correspondence perhaps best articulates the complexity of the women's lives and the clashes between their private and the public worlds in a way that more polished literary genres fail to do."--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 438 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-422) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521393140 9780521393140 0521576334 9780521576338 |