Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers, 1925-1945 by Drusilla Modjeska

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Sunning and light foxing to top foredge.

By the end of the 1920s, the Australian novel was flourishing, and the majority of Australian novelists were women.

In London, Miles Franklin was producing her first Brent of Bin Bin book and would soon return to Australia. In the west, Katharine Susannah Prichard was enlarging her view of black and white in outback Australia. In Sydney, the team writing under the name M Barnard Eldershaw had published its first novel and won the Bulletin prize. The influential Nettie Palmer of Melbourne gathered these writers into a network through her support and criticism.

By the mid-1930s, these women and other writers such as Eleanor Dark, Jean Devanny, Dymphna Cusack and Betty Roland faced the impact of fascism and another war. The platform and the writing desk had different and often conflicting appeals. And the Depression underlined the already precarious existence of the woman writer.

This immensely readable work by one of Australia's most respected writers is a fascinating insight into the lives of these significant literary figures and the creative process itself. (back cover)