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Marivic Wyndham Marivic Wyndham i(A115789 works by) (a.k.a. Marivic Wyndham Luther-Davies)
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2 4 y separately published work icon 'A World-Proof Life' : Eleanor Dark, a Writer in Her Times, 1901-1985 Marivic Wyndham , Canberra : Australian National University , 1995 19400824 1995 single work biography

'Eleanor Dark (1901-1985) is one of Australia's most celebrated writers of the inter-war years. Born with the twentieth century - a Federation baby - she published ten novels, amongst them one of the best loved Australian stories of all time, The Timeless Land. Her life spanned successive global crises - two world wars, the economic depression of the 1930s, the Cold War - each issuing its own challenges to the artist and the people's writer she thought herself to be. By far the most privileged writer of her generation, her ultimate challenge was a personal one: to unlock the gates of her world-proof life to a society and a world in crisis. The first cross-cultural biography of this famous Australian writer, Marivic Wyndham's rich and controversial portrait of Eleanor Dark is based on extensive research of the author's public and private lives. ' (Publication summary)
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