Miles Franklin, writer and activist
No I would never marry. I would procure some occupation in which I could tread my life out, independent of the degradation of marriage.
No I would never marry. I would procure some occupation in which I could tread my life out, independent of the degradation of marriage.
In Australia the spirit of the nineties and early nineteen-hundreds… took the form, in the literary as in the social and political worlds, of a fervent democratic nationalism (HM Green)
[wives are] to be petted and made much of when things are going well, and to be severely knocked about when anything goes wrong.
Following my last post The New Woman in Australia, I provide here an annotated list of our earliest women writers
It is not possible to write about early Australian women writers without mentioning, and relying on, the work of Dale Spender, in particular, Writing a New World