The Peaceful ArmyDale Spender, Flora Eldershaw A collection of essays by writers such as Miles Franklin, Marjorie Barnard, Dymphna Cusack, Mary Gilmore and Kylie Tennant. Their topics include: suffragist Rose Scott; social reformer Caroline Chisholm; business woman Mary Reiby; and early Australian women artists and writers. |
Contents
DORA WILCOX | 26 |
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR | 54 |
HELEN SIMPSON | 86 |
OLIVE HOPEGOOD | 114 |
WINIFRED BIRKETT | 115 |
MARGARET PRESTON | 134 |
DALE SPENDER | 149 |
Acknowledgements 166 | |
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Aborigines acres Ada Cambridge Adelaide arrival artist Australian literature Australian Women Writers Australian writers Barnard Eldershaw beauty became Bligh born brought bush Captain Caroline Chisholm Catherine Helen Spence colony convicts Country Women's Association Dale Spender daughter death Dymphna Cusack early Eleanor Dark Elizabeth Macarthur emancipists emigrants England farms fiction Flora Eldershaw friends George girls Governor happy Hawkesbury hundred husband interest Kylie Tennant labour land later letters literary lived London Louisa Macquarie Margaret Margaret Preston Marjorie Barnard marriage married Mary Gilmore Mary Reibey Melbourne Miles Franklin Miss Scott mother native never novel officers Peaceful Army Penguin person pioneer poems political pounds published reform Rose Scott sailed settlement settlers sheep shillings ship social society South Wales story Street Sydney Thomas took transportation voyage wife woman wool writing wrote young