Wallflowers and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia, 1910-1945This lively collection of essays focuses on Australian women writers and artists during the inter-war years. It includes Katharine Susannah Prichard, Dymphna Cusack and Thea Proctor and analyses women's relation to cultural production. |
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Contents
From wallflowers to tall poppies? The Sydney Society | 1 |
Dulcie Deamer and the bohemian body | 13 |
Thea Proctor and the modern woman | 26 |
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| Title | Wallflowers and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia, 1910-1945 Australian gender studies UQP paperbacks |
| Editor | Maryanne Dever |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0702226076, 9780702226076 |
| Length | 175 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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