Je suis australienne : remarkable women in France, 1880-1945 / Rosemary Lancaster.
Publication details: Crawley, W.A. : UWA Press, 2008.Description: xvi, 234 p., [6] p. of plates : ports, facsims ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781921401138 (pbk.)
- Remarkable women in France, 1880-1945
- 1912-2011
- 1871-1903
- 1848-1897
- 1902-1983
- 1912-
- Australian literature -- Women authors
- Weibliche Reisende
- Women authors, Australian -- Travel -- France
- Weibliche Reisende
- Women -- Australia -- Biography
- Australians -- Travel -- France
- Women travelers -- France
- Australier
- Frankreich
- Australien
- Frankreich
- Women
- Eminent Australians
- Australians overseas
- France
- Case studies
- Biography
- 910.82
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 910.82 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 67574 |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 225-230.
Daisy White : an accomplished schoolgirl in France, 1887-1889 -- Trouble in Bohemia : the belle epoch novels of Tasma, 1891 and 1895 -- Digger nurses on the Western Front, 1916-1919 -- Stella Bowen's 'education of another sort' : the Paris years, 1922-1933 -- 'All that glitters' : illusory words in Christina Stead's The beauties and the furies (1936) and House of all nations (1938) -- 'No time to be frail' : Nancy Wake, resistance heroine, 1940-1944.
"The six chapters of this book look to a sample of extraordinary women who travelled to France at different historical moments and who formulated their impressions in fiction, diaries, letters, autobiographies between 1880 and 1945. It was a fecund time in the development of Australian women's lives. As travellers they were challenged to adapt to new environments in a world of changing attitudes to feminine education, professionalism and sexuality. Some found themselves in the thick of new European artistic developments; others in the theatres of devastating world wars; all bonded irrevocably with the France they visited; some never returned."--Provided by publisher.
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