Australia’s Independent Woman, an Overview
In the 1960s, what is an Independent Woman was changed forever by ‘the pill’, which allowed women to enter marriage without the fear of endless pregnancies
AWW Generation 3, 1920 – 1960 (list)
An annotated list of Australian women writers who began writing after WWI, during the Depression, and up to the end of the fifties/early sixties
Eve Langley
You ask … are we masquerading as boys. No, we are masquerading as life. We are in search of a country … the promised land
Third Generation, 1920s – 1950s
by Bill Holloway The years from the 1920s to the 1950s which encompass the third generation of Australian writing, saw the Depression, WWII, and the beginning of the end of Australia as a white picket fence British enclave. Nearly all of our best writers from this...
Ernestine Hill
It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy-boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas …
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