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Je suis australienne : remarkable women in France, 1880-1945 / Rosemary Lancaster.

By: Publication details: Crawley, W.A. : UWA Press, 2008.Description: xvi, 234 p., [6] p. of plates : ports, facsims ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781921401138 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Remarkable women in France, 1880-1945
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.82
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book 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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