Cathy Perkins Cathy Perkins i(A147784 works by)
Gender: Female
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y separately published work icon The Shelf Life of Zora Cross Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2019 16977350 2019 single work biography

'Poet and journalist Zora Cross burst onto the Australian literary scene in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a household name alongside Shakespeare and Rossetti. While Cross’s fame didn’t last, she kept writing through financial hardship, personal tragedies and two world wars, producing a remarkable body of work. Her verse, prose and correspondence with the likes of Ethel Turner, George Robertson (of Angus & Robertson) and Mary Gilmore place Zora Cross among the key personalities of Australia’s literary world in the early twentieth century.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 highly commended National Biography Award
2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize Australian History Prize
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