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oapen-20.500.12657-396662020-06-18T09:40:28Z ‘A world-proof life’ Wyndham, Marivic Biography of celebrated Australian woman writer Twentieth century Australian novelist Family & social history Public & private life Marriage & relationships Twentieth century Australian history bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGL Biography: literary bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJM Australasian & Pacific history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FV Historical fiction Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive global crises - two world wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War - each issuing its own challenges to the artist and the people's writer she thought herself to be. By far the most privileged writer of her generation, her ultimate challenge was a personal one: to unlock the gates of her world-proof life to a society and a world in crisis. The first cross-cultural biography of this famous Australian writer, Marivic Wyndham's rich and controversial portrait of Eleanor Dark is based on extensive research of the author's public and private lives. 2020-06-17T14:13:03Z 2020-06-17T14:13:03Z 2007 book ONIX_20200617_9780980284027_7 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39666 eng application/pdf n/a a-world-proof-life.pdf UTS ePRESS 10.5130/978-0-9802840-2-7 10.5130/978-0-9802840-2-7 feb523b3-bdff-4e43-ad50-063a48b87781 386 Broadway open access
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Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive global crises - two world wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War - each issuing its own challenges to the artist and the people's writer she thought herself to be. By far the most privileged writer of her generation, her ultimate challenge was a personal one: to unlock the gates of her world-proof life to a society and a world in crisis. The first cross-cultural biography of this famous Australian writer, Marivic Wyndham's rich and controversial portrait of Eleanor Dark is based on extensive research of the author's public and private lives.
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