Miles Franklin in America: Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career

Second Hand (Hardcover)

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By the end of the 1920s, the Australian novel was flourishing, and the majority of Australian novelists were women.

But by the mid-thirties, these writers, and others such as Eleanor Dark, Jean Devanny, Dymphna Cusack and Betty Roland, faced the impact of fascism and the probability of another war. The platform and the writing desk had different and sometimes conflicting appeals. And the Depression underlined the doubly precarious existence of the woman writer.

Drusilla Modjeska has spent half a dozen years picking up the traces left by Australia's women writers in their letters, diaries, notebooks, and the memories of their contemporaries.

In this fascinating book, she reconstructs their existence as living beings and finds their dilemmas not so different from those of her own contemporaries.