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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This is an enjoyable survey of Australian radical writers in a time period roughly between 1900 and 1970 but with a greater emphasis on the 30s and 40s (which is truthfully when the best known authors were working – and I admit to studying and admiring these women back in my uni days, so I might be a little biased!) It is as much as about the times as the authors themselves, who were reflecting the political and social conditions of that most interesting period. Sweeping through from Mary Gilmore and Miles Franklin, taking in the Communist Party members or sympathisers, Katharine Susannah Pritchard, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark and Kylie Tennant, through to Kath Walker, these and others are shown to have fostered debate and brought about change through their writings. Informative and enlightening but also quite entertaining! Lindy
Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based writer of non-fiction and biography, fiction, general articles and literary journalism. Her working background includes radio interviewing, print journalism, radio and TV scriptwriting, editing books, ghostwriting, teaching editing and creative writing, and arts administration. She is the author of the bestselling The Making of Julia Gillard and her most recent book is Vida on women's rights campaigner Vida Goldstein.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This is an enjoyable survey of Australian radical writers in a time period roughly between 1900 and 1970 but with a greater emphasis on the 30s and 40s (which is truthfully when the best known authors were working – and I admit to studying and admiring these women back in my uni days, so I might be a little biased!) It is as much as about the times as the authors themselves, who were reflecting the political and social conditions of that most interesting period. Sweeping through from Mary Gilmore and Miles Franklin, taking in the Communist Party members or sympathisers, Katharine Susannah Pritchard, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark and Kylie Tennant, through to Kath Walker, these and others are shown to have fostered debate and brought about change through their writings. Informative and enlightening but also quite entertaining! Lindy
