‘A world-proof life’
Language: English Publication details: Broadway UTS ePRESS 2007Description: 1 electronic resource (386 p.)ISBN:- 978-0-9802840-2-7
- Biography: literary
- Social & cultural history
- Australasian & Pacific history
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- Literature: history & criticism
- Historical fiction
- Biography of celebrated Australian woman writer
- Twentieth century Australian novelist
- Family & social history
- Public & private life
- Marriage & relationships
- Twentieth century Australian history
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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.
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