'This invaluable source book outlines the lives and works of over 450 Australian women writers, and puts rare manuscript collections on the literary may for the first time. It brings to light novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights autobiographers, biographers, and non-fiction writers from the earliest days of white settlement to the present. It provides biographical information as well as comprehensive bibliographical details: complete listing of the author's publications, biographical studies, the most recent and influential critical surveys of their work and manuscript locations.' (Source: Backcover)
