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'Considers both works as explorations by post-colonial women novelists who are writing "their way out of dispossession into inheritance." Finds that both writers recover their female literary inheritance through showing no preference for any tradition but by creating their "own aesthetic"' (Annotation in Robert L. Ross, Australian Literary Criticism 1945-1988, 238).
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In Search of Lost Mothers : Margaret Laurence's "The Diviners" and Elizabeth Jolley's "Miss Peabody's Inheritance"
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