I. Wiskott I. Wiskott i(A74851 works by) (a.k.a. Inge Wiskott)
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3 34 y separately published work icon Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) Christina Stead , ( trans. I. Wiskott with title Miss Herbert : Roman ) Munich : Franz Ehrenwirth Verlag , 1984 Z457088 1976 single work novel

'Eleanor Herbert Brent is a beautiful woman - tall, blond and athletic. Sexuality forms her personality and as a young English graduate on the loose in London, she savours the capacity to excite - and sleep with - every man she meets. At the same time she is deeply conventional, believing in respectability, in the desire to be a wife and mother in the 'dear old-fashioned way'. But real love between a man and a woman - something which could transform her into the passionate woman she really is - Eleanor determinedly avoids. When she is thirty she marries and has children. However, her wholesome but unsatisfying suburban life collapses with the departure of her pompous prig of a husband. She survives to find some success on the fringes of literary life, new lovers, new friends, but never to know herself. Eleanor is a literary portrait on a magnificent scale, but she is more than that. Divided in herself and deeply self-deluded, Eleanor's life is a powerful metaphor for the England of the 1920s to the 1950s through which she lives.' (Publication summary)

2 Father Clears Out James Hackston , 1943 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 December vol. 64 no. 3333 1943; (p. 4) Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1945 1946; (p. 235-244) The Bulletin , 1 February vol. 71 no. 3651 1950; (p. 44-46) At Home and Next Door : Australian and New Zealand Stories 1955; (p. 15-25) Father Clears Out 1966; (p. 69-77) Short Stories of Australia : The Lawson Tradition 1967; (p. 211-218)

— Appears in: Eine Frau im Busch und andere australische Erzahlungen 1970;
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