Ann-Marie Priest, "A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century" (UWA Publishing, 2018)

Summary

In her new book, A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (UWA Publishing, 2018), Ann-Marie Priest, a lecturer at Central Queensland University, explores the literary lives of four Australian women---Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park---who challenged the 20th-century notion of artist as distinctly male. Priest offers biographical and cultural insights into these pioneering women whose urgency to write (their "vocation") would not be denied.

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