A Free Flame
Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2018
Summary
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE 2016 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
‘I need to be a writer,’ Ruth Park told her future husband, D’Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. ‘That’s what I need from life.’
She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of being ‘real’ artists, a number of precocious girls in Australian cities were weighing their chances and laying their plans.
A Free Flame explores the lives of four such women, Gwen Ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742589589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742589588 |
| Author: | Ann-Marie Priest |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Ann-Marie Priest
Ann-Marie Priest grew up in country South Australia, but has lived most of her adult life in rural Queensland. She writes essays and reviews, and her first book, Great Writers, Great Loves: The Reinvention of Love in the Twentieth-Century, explored the love lives of a group of influential twentieth-century writers. She has a PhD in English literature and teaches at Central Queensland University.
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