A fictional account of a family's encounter with mental illness, this is the story of Poppy, a young mother forced to spend years in a sanatorium against her will.

Poppy

Literature & Fiction

Modjeska, Drusilla

Contemporary

Penguin Group Australia

Exiles at home: Australian women writers, 1925-1945

Essays & Correspondence

Sirius Book

This famous anthology explores the sometimes joyous, sometimes vexed world of sisters, with stories and essays by six of Australia's finest writers.

Sisters

Politics & Social Sciences

Jolley, Elizabeth

GARNER, HELEN

Mears, Gillian

Women's Studies

Angus&Robertson

At the end of the 1920s, Christina Stead had left Australia and was poised to write "Seven Poor Men of Sydney". In London, Miles Franklin was producing her first "Brent of Bin Bin" book and would soon return to Australia. Katherine Susannah Pritchard was enlarging her view of black and white in outback Australia, and the team writing under the name M. Barnard. Eldershaw had published its first novel and won the Bulletin prize. Gathering these writers into a network by her support and criticism was the influential Nettie Palmer. In the mid-1930s, these women and other writers such as Eleanor Dark, Jean Devanny, Dymphna Cusack and Betty Roland, faced the impact of fascism and another war. The platform and the writing desk had different and often conflicting appeals; and the Depression underlined the already precarious existence of the woman writer. This text traces the lives of a generation of Australia's women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks, and the memories of their contemporaries.

Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945

Harpercollins

"A beautifully written narrative, turning on the stories of four women at different ages, and through their self-analysis, the story of many more."

The orchard

Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited

A moving, deeply insightful study of two artists-both twentieth-century Australian women-who lived and worked in divergent realms Drusilla Modjeska's title derives from an anecdote about the composer who, while creating a piece of music, ordered his family to remain silent while taking a meal with him-so Stravinsky could preserve his concentration on his work. Modjeska's book investigates the life patterns of women artists, most of whom have been unable to manage such a neat compartmentalization of daily life and creativity. Stravinsky's Lunch tells the stories of two extraordinary women, both born close to the turn of the century in Australia and both destined to make important contributions to Australian painting. Stella Bowen went to London to make her career, then became a bohemian and the longtime mistress of Ford Madox Ford. Grace Cossington Smith, a spinster who never strayed far from her childhood home on the outskirts of Sydney, became one of the first Australian modernists. Their distinctive stories speak volumes about how love, art, and life intersect. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Stravinsky's Lunch

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Winner of the Australian Booksellers' Award, this novel blurs together memories and fiction as an octogenarian narrates the legend of the silver hands to a woman in her twenties, who in turn passes on the tale to a man who claims it as his own.

The Orchard

British & Irish

Womens Pr Ltd

4th Estate - AU

Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 (A&R Classics)

HarperCollins AU

Macmillan,Australia

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