'A world-proof life'

• Auteur principal: Wyndham, Marivic (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Broadway UTS ePRESS 2007
• Sujets: 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
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

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.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (386 p.)

ISBN

978-0-9802840-2-7

Accès

Open Access