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Notes:Reduced and rewritten form of the novel `A Woman's Friendship'
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A Woman's Friendship
1889
single work
novel
satire
(taught in 1 units)
'The grand Melbourne Exhibition of 1888 is a most agreeable place for Margaret Clive, a journalist’s wife, and Patty Kinnaird, married to a squatter, to pursue their ‘purely intellectual friendship’ with handsome, widowed and wealthy Seaton Macdonald ... The triangular relationship changes, however, when the women are house guests at Yattock, Macdonald’s magnificent country property - and unadmitted attractions begin to surface.
'In this gentle satire of class and sexuality, Ada Cambridge opens a window on Melbourne society of the 1880s and illuminates some important issues of the day - reform of dress and diet, the ‘marriage question’, socialism and women’s suffrage.' (Publication summary)
Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 1988 pg. 143-168
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Subjects:
- Bush,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Victoria,
- Urban,
Settings:
- 1880s
