Pen Portraits: Women writers and Journalists In Nineteenth Century Australia.

Clarke, Patricia.

ISBN 10: 0043100260 / ISBN 13: 9780043100264

Published by Allen & Unwin., Australia, 1988

About this Item

Green cloth covers with gilt title to spine: xi,289 pages. Illustrated. Inscription by" Patricia Clarke to Helen & Richard " on title page. Plastic wrapper.

Seller Inventory # 10298

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pen Portraits: Women writers and Journalists In Nineteenth Century Australia.
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin., Australia
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0043100260
• ISBN 13: 9780043100264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Pen Portraits tells the story of the achievements of Australia's earliest women writers.Despite being confined to a life within the home in a frontier society, some talented (and very determined) women in colonial Australia carved out careers as writers.

About the Author

Patricia Clarke, journalist and historian, is the author of A Colonial Woman, the biography of the pioneering Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857, and The Governesses, a rich insight into daily life in the Australian colonies in the mid-nineteenth century as seen through the eyes of governesses who travelled from England to take up posts with local families. She has also just completed Her Brief, Bright Day (forthcoming), the story of Louisa Atkinson, the first Australian-born woman novelist and a noted naturalist, and is compiling, with Dale Spender, a collection of letters and diaries written by women during Australia's first half-century.Actively involved in heritage issues and in local and family history, Patricia Clarke is the editor of the Canberra Historical Journal.