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Writing a new world : two centuries of Australian women writers

Title
Writing a new world : two centuries of Australian women writers / Dale Spender.
Author
Spender, Dale.
Publication
London ; New York : Pandora, 1988.

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Description
xvii, 326 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
The work of women writers is examined to give a history of white settlement in Australia. Topics covered include Aboriginal women, colonisation and oppression.
Series Statement
Australian literary heritage
Uniform Title
Australian literary heritage
Subject
  • Australian literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > Australia
  • Race relations > Representation > Literature
  • Settlement and contacts > Colonisation
  • Race relations > Attitudes
  • Australian literature > Women authors
  • Women and literature
  • Australia
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-318).
Contents
pt. 1. Personal epistles -- ch. 1. Private and public sources -- ch. 2. Transportation and communication -- ch. 3. New ways in the new world -- ch. 4. Reflection and remorse -- ch. 5. Authoritative women -- ch. 6. Novel letters -- ch. 7. From the other side -- ch. 8. Sanity and silences -- ch. 9. Connections and comparisons -- ch. 10. 'A difference of view' -- pt. 2. Professional pioneers -- ch. 1. Facts from the frontier -- ch. 2. Professional writer -- ch. 3. Personal chronicles and present problems -- ch. 4. Confounding conventions -- ch. 5. First fictions -- ch. 6. Australian native -- ch. 7. Forerunner and forgotten -- ch. 8. Ideal and reality -- ch. 9. Links in the chain -- ch. 10. Woman to woman -- pt. 3. Popular prose -- ch. 1. Setting the scene -- ch. 2. Ada Cambridge, 1844-1926 -- ch. 3. 'Tasma' (Jessie Couvreur), 1848-1897 -- ch. 4. Rosa Praed, 1851-1935 -- ch. 5. Catherine Helen Spence and Catherine Martin -- ch. 6. The supporting cast -- ch. 7. Black and white issues -- ch. 8. The major role of the minor writers -- ch. 9. Literary partnerships -- ch. 10 Women and children -- pt. 4. Present position -- ch. 1. Nettie's network -- ch. 2. Women's responsibility -- ch. 3. Postscript.
ISBN
  • 0863581722
  • 9780863581724
LCCN
90148253
OCLC
  • ocm17324869
  • 17324869
  • SCSB-1747633
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library