Paperback. Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a household name alongside Shakespeare and Rossetti. While Crosss fame didnt last, she kept writing through financial hardship, personal tragedies and two world wars, producing an impressive body of work. Her verse, prose and correspondence with the likes of Ethel Turner, George Robertson (of Angus & Robertson) and Mary Gilmore place Zora Cross among the key personalities of Australias literary world in the early twentieth century. The Shelf Life of Zora Cross reveals the life of a neglected writer and intriguing person. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Shelf Life of Zora Cross (Paperback)
Publisher: Monash University Publishing, Clayton, VIC
Publication Date: 2024
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1922979422
ISBN 13: 9781922979421
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a household name alongside Shakespeare and Rossetti. While Cross’s fame didn’t last, she kept writing through financial hardship, personal tragedies and two world wars, producing an impressive body of work. Her verse, prose and correspondence with the likes of Ethel Turner, George Robertson (of Angus & Robertson) and Mary Gilmore place Zora Cross among the key personalities of Australia’s literary world in the early twentieth century. The Shelf Life of Zora Cross reveals the life of a neglected writer and intriguing person.

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Cathy Perkins edits the award-winning SL magazine and other publications at the State Library of New South Wales. She has worked as a book editor, in a bookshop, and for the Australian Society of Authors. Her essays on Zora Cross have been published in Meanjin.

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