Wallflowers and witches : women and culture in Australia, 1910-1945
Title
Wallflowers and witches : women and culture in Australia, 1910-1945 / edited by Maryanne Dever ; [contributors, Geoffrey Batchen and others].
Publication
St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-172) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Maryanne Dever -- 1. From wallflowers to tall poppies? The Sydney Society of Women Painters, 1910-1934 / Angela Philp -- 2. Dulcie Deamer and the bohemian body / Peter Kirkpatrick -- 3. Almost dancing: Thea Proctor and the modern woman / Mary Mackay -- 4. "Diamonds of the Dustheap"?: Women's diary writing between the wars / Katie Holmes -- 5. Looking through the prism: The sculpture of Eleonore Lange / Geoffrey Batchen -- 6. "No thank you, but do you have any painted fan decorations?": Modernist women artists and the gatekeepers of culture / Pam James -- 7. Women of letters and the uses of memory / Carole Ferrier -- 8. Dymphna Cusack's Comets Soon Pass: The genius and the potato wife / Frances de Groen -- 9. Ethel Carrick Fox: The cheat or the cheated? / Elin Howe -- 10. "Dear Beppo": Recuperating "Margaret Fane" / Michael Sharkey -- 11. "Conventional Women of Ability": M. Barnard Eldershaw and the question of cultural authority / Maryanne Dever.