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'In her groundbreaking 1988 study of women’s biography Writing a Woman’s Life, literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun wrote:
Feminist criticism, scholarship, and theory have gone further in the last two decades than I, even in my most intense time of hope, could have envisioned. Yet I find myself today profoundly worried about the dissemination of these important new ideas to the general body of women.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph:
‘To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, who would believe me?’
— Isabella, Act II, Scene 4, William Shakespeare, Measure for MeasureWhat would happen if one woman told the truth about
her life?
The world would split open
— Muriel Rukeyser, ‘Kathe Kollwitz’
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Awards
- 2020 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award — Non-fiction
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Women Who Write About Their Feelings and Lives
Sydney Review of Books
Sydney Review of Books
Review of:
- Traumata 2018 single work autobiography
- Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life 2018 selected work essay
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