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'In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes.
'Published here for the first time are Deborah Conway writing about the ups and downs of being a dog owner in "A Letter to the Best Decision I Ever Made"; Ita Buttrose imagining an alternative life as an opera singer in "A Letter to the Life I Could Have Lived"; Tracee Hutchison writing "A Complaint Letter" to complaint letters; Pip Lincolne describing a magical childhood afternoon in "A Letter to the Moment I Knew it Was Time to Go Home"; "A Love Letter" from Kate Miller-Heidke aged twenty-nine to Kate Miller-Heidke aged twelve; and Helen Garner looking back on a teacher both terrifying and inspiring in "A Letter to the Person I Misjudged".
'Touching, funny and wise, this brand new collection of letters is a captivating tribute to correspondence.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence
Marieke Hardy
(editor),
Michaela McGuire
(editor),
Camberwell
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Penguin
,
2011
Z1803548
2011
anthology
correspondence
'In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.
'In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends "A love letter" to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in "The letter I wish I'd written", Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke "To my first boss", and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes "To the best present I ever received".
'And some gentlemen correspondents - including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis - have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter "To the woman who changed my life".
'By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing.' (From the publisher's website.)
