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Issue Details:
First known date:
1929...
vol.
5
no.
35
23 July
1929
of
The Australian Woman's Mirror
est. 1924-1961
The Australian Woman's Mirror
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Notes
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Contains the third instalment of Georgia Rivers's The Difficult Art, p. 4
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1929 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Going Up in the World,
single work
short story
(p. 6, 50 - 51)Stella Brady has worked hard to leave behind her humble origins. She intends to marry bank manager Alexander Munro and live a comfortable life as a bank manager's wife. But when she meets Don Firth, a tomato grower and kindred spirit, her plans change dramatically.
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A Study in Old Bricks,
single work
short story
(p. 7, 52 - 53)When Mrs Harris first married she and her husband, Tom, fell in love with a little brick cottage in the village. They dreamed of owning it and adding a bathroom. Tom dies and her son, Tommy, is drowned and Mrs Harris gives up hope of ever owning the cottage. Many years later it is put up for sale, but she knows she could never find the money to buy it.
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England's First Woman Novelist,
single work
column
(p. 8, 54)Ivory D. relates the life and career of the Restoration dramatist, Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689), allegedly the first woman to earn her living from writing.
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Women in Poetry : The Other Side of the Picture,
single work
column
(p. 12)Callista counters Willowee's earlier article with examples of favourable portrayals of women in poetry.
- I Lit My Lampi"I lit my lamp at Pleasure's flame;", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Forgetting, single work poetry (p. 15)
- Bitternessi"A little hand is knocking at my heart,", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Disappointing!, single work poetry (p. 17)
- The Defencei"There was a time you dared not tell me he", single work poetry (p. 24) Section: Let's Talk About Books
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