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Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925 -- 1945
by Modjeska, Drusilla
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0207146160
- ISBN 13
- 9780207146169
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Sirius Books, Sydney, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 283 pp., illustrated dustwrapper, bibliography, index, photographs. the dust jacket has lost a shade of colour on the spine, and there is some browning of the title page, and of the page edges of all but the last section of the book which appears to have been printed on different paper (heavier and whiter). a teacher of writing and literary studies, the author has spent half a dozen years picking up the traces left by Australia's women writers in their letters, diaries, notebooks and the memories of their contemporaries. In this fascinating book, she reconstructs their existence as living beings and find their dilemmas not so different from those of her own contemporaries. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 0207146160. ISBN/EAN: 9780207146169. Inventory No: 000705. . 9780207146169
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000705
- Title
- Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925 -- 1945
- Author
- Modjeska, Drusilla
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0207146160
- ISBN 13
- 9780207146169
- Publisher
- Sirius Books
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Australia, Literature, Women, History, Criticism Biography & Autobiography; Women & Feminism. Unbranded ISBN: 0207146160 EAN: 9780207146169 Modjeska, Drusilla Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925 -- 1945
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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