"A world-proof life" : Eleanor Dark, a writer in her times, 1901-1985 /
"Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Broadway, NSW, Australia :
UTSePress, Sydney,
2007.
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| Series: | PANDORA electronic collection.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive global crises - two world wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War - each issuing its own challenges to the artist and the people's writer she thought herself to be. By far the most privileged writer of her generation, her ultimate challenge was a personal one: to unlock the gates of her world-proof life to a society and a world in crisis. The first cross-cultural biography of this famous Australian writer, Marivic Wyndham's rich and controversial portrait of Eleanor Dark is based on extensive research of the author's public and private lives."--Abstract. |
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| Item Description: | Issued in print and electronic formats. "This book began its long life as an Honours thesis in 1987, later extended into a doctoral thesis"--Acknowledgements. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-380). |
| ISBN: | 9780980284027 0980284023 |