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Article: Helen Garner.(Review)
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- Australian Literary Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Helen Garner, by Kerryn Goldsworthy. Oxford Australian Writers. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paper $19.95.
Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of fourteen Australian writers, five female and nine male, including David Malouf, Christina Stead, Gwen Harwood, Patrick White, Peter Carey and Judith Wright. Those authors chosen as a part of the series all seem to be a part of the ever-debated Australian literary canon. So, before even picking up the book, the question arose: Why was Helen Garner chosen to be in the series? Kerryn Goldsworthy attempts to answer this question by claiming ...