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

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps on half-title page and right foredge. Wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good.

A Free Flame explores the lives of four 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 examines how these women besieged the artist's identity and ultimately remade it in their own image. (back cover)