Cirrus@Austlit

'Frank Moorhouse died in mid-2022, but it took me a while to realise I missed him. Most of the celebrations of his life and work came from people who knew him and/or loved his League of Nations trilogy or his discontinuous narratives from the 1970s. I never met him; I’m not one of the many female fans of his best-known character, Edith Campbell Berry; and although we were both part of the 1970s sexual liberation movement, we were fighting on very different fronts. While Frank was discussing sex and censorship in Balmain pubs, I was joining the annual Adelaide women’s pub crawl, where a bunch of feminists refused to be confined to the Ladies’ Lounge and invaded the men-only front bars.' (Introduction)