A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century by Ann-Marie Priest

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

A Free Flame explores the lives of four such women, Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park, each of whom went on to become a notable Australian writer.

They were very different women from very different backgrounds, but they shared a sense of urgency around their vocation - their 'need' to be a writer - that would not let them rest.

Weaving biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, this book looks at the ways in which these women laid siege to the artist's identity, and ultimately remade it in their own image. (back cover)