TY - BOOK AU - Ferrier,Carole TI - Gender, politics and fiction: : twentieth century Australian women's novels SN - 0702217964 U1 - 823 PY - 1985/// CY - St Lucia, Queensland PB - University of Queensland Press KW - Australian fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Feminism and literature KW - Australia KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-262); Introductory commentary : women writers in Australia / Carole Ferrier; My brilliant career : portrait of the artist as a wild colonial girl / Susan Gardner; Alias Miles Franklin / Valerie Kent; Nettie Palmer as critic / Deborah Jordan; Katharine Susannah Prichard and the literary dynamics of political commitment / Pat Buckridge; Jean Devanny, Katharine Susannah Prichard, and the "Really proletarian novel" / Carole Ferrier; Eve Langley : personal and artistic schism / Joy Thwaite; The man who loved children and the patriarchal family drama / Susan Sheridan; "Deep into the destructive core" : Elizabeth Harrower's the watch tower / Francis McInherny; Migrant women writers : who's on whose margins? / Sneja Gunew; Constructing the woman writer : the reviewing reception of Hazzard's the transit of Venus / Bronwen Levy; Australian woman novelist of the 1970's : a survey / Margaret Smith ER -