That Mad Louisa: The Life Story of Louisa Lawson, an Outstanding Character in Australian History - Softcover

Handley, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980871042 ISBN 13: 9780980871043

Publisher: Jojo Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Richard Handley tells the courageous story of Louisa Lawson, a leader in the fight for women’s rights and a significant character in Australian history. He highlights the great courage she showed in coping with her problems and the determination and fighting spirit in confronting male chauvinism and the subjugation of women in nineteenth-century Australia. Louisa emerges as the foremost feminist writer of her day and as a gifted poet. In the past, her reputation has suffered and her importance has been ignored, with the biographers of Henry Lawson, her son, painting her as a careless, uncaring, and sexually repressed wife. Richard Handley’s That Mad Louisa has addressed that situation, highlighting her championing of women’s welfare and equality, her Australian patriotism, her inventiveness, publishing and journalistic qualities, and her charitable works.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Handley has been an admirer of Henry Lawson’s work from his youth, after reading about Louisa Lawson, the author went to Mudgee, researched her life, and wrote this book to redress the prevalent view of Henry’s mother in an attempt to clearly establish her place as one of the grand figures of Australian history and a pioneer of the women’s movement. Richard lives in Paddington, New South Wales.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jojo Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0980871042
• ISBN 13: 9780980871043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 325