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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Sneaky Little Revolutions : Selected Essays of Charmain Clift
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'‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’

'Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political.

'In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years in the cosmopolitan community of artists on the Greek island of Hydra. Back in Sydney, Clift found her opinions were far more progressive than those of many of her fellow Australians.

'This new edition of Charmian Clift’s essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, are drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wrote through the turbulent and transformative years of the 1960s. In these ‘sneaky little revolutions’, as Clift once called them, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia’s role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for an Australian film industry — and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:NewSouth Publishing , 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Coming Home, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 20-26)
Social Drinking, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 27-33)
Second Class Citizens, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 34-40)
Youth Revisited, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 41-44)
On Debits and Credits, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 45-49)
On Painting Bricks White, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 50-54)
On Lucky Dips, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 55-58)
Christmas, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 59-63)
The Joys of a City, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 64-67)
The Sounds of Summer, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 68-72)
The Law of The Stranger, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 73-77)
The Rare Art of Inspiring Others, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 78-82)
An Exile's Return, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 83-87)
A Death in the Family, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 88-92)
Things That Go Boomp in the Night, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 93-97)
A Birthday in The Kelly Country, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 98-103)
On Letting Asia In, Charmian Clift , single work essay (p. 103-107)
On Living for Love Alone, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 108-111)
Getting with the Forward-Lookers, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 112-116)
Living in a Neighbourhood, Charmian Clift , single work prose (p. 117-121)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Lunch Hour Talk Nadia Wheatley on Charmian Clift Kris Clarke , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , February vol. 35 no. 1 2024;
'Nadia (pictured right) has made a study of Charmian Clift’s feminism, drawing mainly upon her essays published in The Sydney Morning Herald, articles written from 1964 to 1969 and the books she wrote about her reflections on life in Greece. Eighty of these essays have been collected in the volume titled, Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift.' (Introduction)
A Serving of Insurgency with Breakfast Fiona Wright , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2022;

— Review of Sneaky Little Revolutions : Selected Essays of Charmain Clift Charmian Clift , 2022 selected work essay
A Serving of Insurgency with Breakfast Fiona Wright , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , August 2022;

— Review of Sneaky Little Revolutions : Selected Essays of Charmain Clift Charmian Clift , 2022 selected work essay
Lunch Hour Talk Nadia Wheatley on Charmian Clift Kris Clarke , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , February vol. 35 no. 1 2024;
'Nadia (pictured right) has made a study of Charmian Clift’s feminism, drawing mainly upon her essays published in The Sydney Morning Herald, articles written from 1964 to 1969 and the books she wrote about her reflections on life in Greece. Eighty of these essays have been collected in the volume titled, Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift.' (Introduction)
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