Je Suis Australienne

by Lancaster, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9781921401138
• ISBN10: 1921401133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-05
• Publisher: Uwa Pub

Summary

"This engaging book looks to extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France between 1880 and 1945 and expressed their impressions in fiction, diaries, letters, and autobiographies." "Focussing on individuals such as Nancy Wake, Christina Stead, Stella Bowen, Jessie Couvreur (Tasma) and Daisy White, the diverse worlds of art, war, education, sexuality and politics are explored against a culturally rich French backdrop. A Parisian finishing school; the Belle Epoque; the decimated landscapes of the Somme; the decadent Left Bank studios and cafes of the 1920s; the Depression of the 1930s; German occupied France - these narratives tell us as much about the experiences of the women writing as they do about identity and Australia's response to key moments in French history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Rosemary Lancaster is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Daisy White: An Accomplished Schoolgirl in France, 1887-1889	p. 1
Trouble in Bohemia: the Belle Epoque Novels of Tasma, 1891 and 1895	p. 30
Digger Nurses on the Western Front, 1916-1919	p. 58
Stella Bowen's 'education of another sort': the Paris Years, 1922-1933	p. 92
'All That Glitters': Illusory Worlds in Christina Stead's The Beauties and Furies (1936) and House of All Nations (1938)	p. 124
'No Time to Be Frail': Nancy Wake, Resistance Heroine, 1940-1944	p. 151
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 231
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