Valmorbida, Elise

Matilde Waltzing / Elise Valmorbida - xxxi, 256 pages

This novel tells the story of Matilde Manin from her childhood in Villafranca, Northern Italy, to her death in Melbourne. It soon becomes clear that Matilde's off-key life unravels in ways that parallel the hagiography of the bizarre local Santa Barbara of the Apparition.

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Women--Social conditions--Australia--20th century--Fiction
Prejudices--Fiction

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