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Article: Eleanor Dark and 'the Artist'
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- Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Eleanor Dark and 'the Artist' Marivic Wyndham - 'A World-Proof Life': Eleanor Dark, A Writer in Her Times, Sydney: UTSePress, 2007.
By Liz Bissell
The critical interest in Australian novelist Eleanor Dark and her work in the last thirty years exemplifies the trend by Left cultural historians in Australian literary studies towards writers of the interwar period. Marivic Wyndham's new biography, 'A World-Proof Life' Eleanor Dark: A Writer in her Times, 1901-1985, attempts to address some of the assumptions of feminist historical research and Left views of 'radical' writers which have been applied to Dark since the late 1970s. Wyndham argues that there is a long 'victim tradition' in ...