Exiles At Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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A landmark work of Australian literary history and feminist criticism, Exiles at Home chronicles the lives and careers of Australian women writers active between 1925 and 1945, a period of profound social and cultural upheaval. Drusilla Modjeska illuminates how figures such as Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, and Eleanor Dark navigated the competing demands of creative ambition, political commitment, and domestic life in a society that rarely made space for women's intellectual work. With a tone that is both scholarly and deeply empathetic, the study argues that these women were exiles not in a geographic sense, but within their own culture — marginalized by gender even as they produced some of Australia's most vital literature. Modjeska draws on letters, diaries, and published works to present a richly textured portrait of a generation of writers who refused to be silenced, reframing their contributions as central rather than peripheral to the Australian literary canon.
Author: Drusilla Modjeska
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, A Sirius Book
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of Australian literary history and feminist criticism, Exiles at Home chronicles the lives and careers of Australian women writers active between 1925 and 1945, a period of profound social and cultural upheaval. Drusilla Modjeska illuminates how figures such as Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, and Eleanor Dark navigated the competing demands of creative ambition, political commitment, and domestic life in a society that rarely made space for women's intellectual work. With a tone that is both scholarly and deeply empathetic, the study argues that these women were exiles not in a geographic sense, but within their own culture — marginalized by gender even as they produced some of Australia's most vital literature. Modjeska draws on letters, diaries, and published works to present a richly textured portrait of a generation of writers who refused to be silenced, reframing their contributions as central rather than peripheral to the Australian literary canon.