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Kept on dancing : writing by Pam Benton / Pam Benton ; design by Charlie Aarons ; cover illustration by Dimity Figner ; editing by Bob Connell.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. published by subscription, 1998Description: 92 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0646366033
  • 9780646366036
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • A828.3
Contents:
Autobiography -- She was a solemn ten year old -- Anzac Day 1978 -- Women's work, women's lives -- She didn't think of it as a breakdown -- Holidays I can do without : camping -- History of my hair -- Death and dying -- Stories -- Grocery gun -- I plant a seed ... -- No country for old men -- Terror Lorstralis -- Procession of ladies -- 1992 -- Coming/going/coming -- Brushes with fame -- Mind change -- Falling sparrows; unresolved grief -- American bullets/designer solutions -- A small craziness -- The America of my childhood -- Patterns -- Legacy from some patriarchs -- A room -- Beach -- Writers & writing -- Agatha Christie -- Dreaming -- The lady writer -- I should have taken wings : Charmian Clift -- Summer storm -- Five days.
Summary: "When Pam died in 1997 she left many manuscripts, in different stages from notes and sketches to final form. She intended to publish, worked long at developing her technique and reflected constantly on the process of writing and the possibilities of communication. But little of her work reached print, except research projects on which she was co-author, for example the book 'Emotion and gender', and two pieces of her creative writing, "She didn't think of it as a breakdown" and "Procession of ladies". This book is intended to honour Pam, as a person and a writer, and to bring more of her tough and beautiful writing to the readership it deserves. It is of course a selection, mainly from the pieces that Pam had brought close to final form. In a few cases of unfinished work a compilation from her drafts has been made, especially the essay on Charmian Clift. I have tried to present Pam's work as Pam intended, with only the editing needed to produce a readable book. The collection covers a range of her interests and 20 years of her writing, with a particular focus on 1991-92, when she crystallised many themes in distinctive short pieces which can be read as essay, poetry, fiction or autobiography. She was deeply interested in autobiography as a process, so it seemed right to include some of her own autobiographical studies, as well as the short stories which usually developed from an episode in her own life. And it seemed important to include some of Pam's continuous reflection on writing, her essays on other women writers and her record of her own struggle to write."-- reface ; Bob Connell.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 828.3 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67219

"Published by subscription"-- title page.

Copyright K. Benton-Connell and R.W. Connell.

Autobiography -- She was a solemn ten year old -- Anzac Day 1978 -- Women's work, women's lives -- She didn't think of it as a breakdown -- Holidays I can do without : camping -- History of my hair -- Death and dying -- Stories -- Grocery gun -- I plant a seed ... -- No country for old men -- Terror Lorstralis -- Procession of ladies -- 1992 -- Coming/going/coming -- Brushes with fame -- Mind change -- Falling sparrows; unresolved grief -- American bullets/designer solutions -- A small craziness -- The America of my childhood -- Patterns -- Legacy from some patriarchs -- A room -- Beach -- Writers & writing -- Agatha Christie -- Dreaming -- The lady writer -- I should have taken wings : Charmian Clift -- Summer storm -- Five days.

"When Pam died in 1997 she left many manuscripts, in different stages from notes and sketches to final form. She intended to publish, worked long at developing her technique and reflected constantly on the process of writing and the possibilities of communication. But little of her work reached print, except research projects on which she was co-author, for example the book 'Emotion and gender', and two pieces of her creative writing, "She didn't think of it as a breakdown" and "Procession of ladies". This book is intended to honour Pam, as a person and a writer, and to bring more of her tough and beautiful writing to the readership it deserves. It is of course a selection, mainly from the pieces that Pam had brought close to final form. In a few cases of unfinished work a compilation from her drafts has been made, especially the essay on Charmian Clift. I have tried to present Pam's work as Pam intended, with only the editing needed to produce a readable book. The collection covers a range of her interests and 20 years of her writing, with a particular focus on 1991-92, when she crystallised many themes in distinctive short pieces which can be read as essay, poetry, fiction or autobiography. She was deeply interested in autobiography as a process, so it seemed right to include some of her own autobiographical studies, as well as the short stories which usually developed from an episode in her own life. And it seemed important to include some of Pam's continuous reflection on writing, her essays on other women writers and her record of her own struggle to write."-- reface ; Bob Connell.

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