Histories, Biographies, Memoirs – Roundup #1 2013
What histories, biographies and memoirs have participants in the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge been reading in 2013? Read this overview to get a glimpse of some interesting books reviewed for the Challenge in the first seven weeks of 2013. I also pose some questions for us to discuss. I would love to hear your thoughts!
2012 AWW Challenge Wrap-up: History, Biography, Memoir
In 2012 participants in the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge wrote 125 reviews of histories, biographies and memoirs. In this overvew of the year just gone I discuss some of the reviews and draw a picture of the reading preferences of the Challenge participants.
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe – guest reviewer Yvonne Perkins
Today’s guest post is by historian Yvonne Perkins. Yvonne is a dedicated reviewer for the AWW challenge, mainly in the areas of history, memoir and biography. She has just published a review of Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe. Here she introduces the work to AWW readers, lists reviews of Franklin’s work that have been written for the challenge so far, and suggests other titles which could be reviewed.
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