‘A world-proof life’
Author | : Marivic Wyndham |
Publisher | : UTS ePRESS |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780980284027 |
ISBN-13 | : 0980284023 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Download or read book ‘A world-proof life’ written by Marivic Wyndham and published by UTS ePRESS. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.