Generations Lost and Found: Reading Women Writers Together

Abstract

The articles discusses reading a group of women writers together as a manifestation of literary feminism. It focuses on Australian women born between 1912 and 1928 which were often overlooked in their own lifetime, particularly in the decades after the Second World War, and mostly did not know each other.

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Published 1 October 2009 in Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines. Subjects: Australian culture, Australian women writers, Feminism, Literary criticism.

Cite as: Sheridan, Susan. ‘Generations Lost and Found: Reading Women Writers Together.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 24, no. 3-4/, 2009, doi: 10.20314/als.6266997311.