Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens
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'Between the Leaves is an intimate exploration into the lives of nine twentieth-century women - including Judith Wright, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Winifred Stephensen and Jean Galbraith - who wrote about their garden in their letters and diaries. This title provides a moving insight into these women's lives, and seeks to understand the ways women were involved in transforming the Australian landscape, and creating within it places they called home. The writings are rich, diverse, eloquent and surprising, conveying a powerful sense of the importance of the garden and the writing of it. The collection reveals stories of grief, hope, friendship, separation, family, ageing, creativity, identity, and the value of tending new growth and the now consuming question of how we live in a changing climate.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: In memoriam Hal Holmes 1925-2009 and Rhys Isaac 1937-2010.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2011 .
      Extent: 311p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes notes [381]-292), bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index.
      ISBN: 9781742582535 (pbk.)

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Writing Strange Letters in the Garden, with Love and Fury Renee Mickelburgh , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 9 2023;

'French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous says, ‘the book is a letter on the run’ ( White Ink 177) and I too have taken the letters of two Australian women gardeners on the run to create my thesis. I grasped the letters between wildflower illustrator Kathleen McArthur and poet Judith Wright and ran with them. I held them close as I grappled to understand how contemporary Australian women’s digital garden stories might work to create conditions of community and worlds in common. In corresponding about their gardens, the poet and the artist developed a deep friendship that bloomed into a broader conservation ethic and action. Their letters and deep female friendship evolved into a question about how to live in harmony with the more-than human world. They would go on to play vital roles in the protection of places I hold dear: The Great Barrier Reef, K’gari (Fraser Island) and the Cooloola National Park. As I held these letters close and analysed my own thesis findings the world around me suffered increasing, human-caused, environmental catastrophe and I felt myself writing with both love and fury, much like Wright did. I began writing strange letters to Kathleen McArthur, alongside letters to my supervisor Professor Liz Mackinlay. Through these letters I searched for what gardens said and did and felt when they were turned into stories. What happens to garden boundaries in this time of environmental love and loss, and digital connection?' (Publication abstract)

Untitled Arthur Lucas , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 6 no. 4 2012;

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Down the Garden Path Desley Deacon , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 9 no. 1 2012; (p. 237-238)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 July 2011; (p. 37)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Daily Tasks Penelope Hanley , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 333 2011; (p. 46)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Non-Fiction Reviews Caroline Gardam , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 - 22 May 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Off the Shelf : Gardens Lorien Kaye , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 May 2011; (p. 30)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Women and Their Private Landscapes Susan Parsons , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 June 2011; (p. 24-25)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Daily Tasks Penelope Hanley , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 333 2011; (p. 46)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 July 2011; (p. 37)

— Review of Between the Leaves : Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens Katie Holmes , 2011 single work biography
Writing Strange Letters in the Garden, with Love and Fury Renee Mickelburgh , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 9 2023;

'French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous says, ‘the book is a letter on the run’ ( White Ink 177) and I too have taken the letters of two Australian women gardeners on the run to create my thesis. I grasped the letters between wildflower illustrator Kathleen McArthur and poet Judith Wright and ran with them. I held them close as I grappled to understand how contemporary Australian women’s digital garden stories might work to create conditions of community and worlds in common. In corresponding about their gardens, the poet and the artist developed a deep friendship that bloomed into a broader conservation ethic and action. Their letters and deep female friendship evolved into a question about how to live in harmony with the more-than human world. They would go on to play vital roles in the protection of places I hold dear: The Great Barrier Reef, K’gari (Fraser Island) and the Cooloola National Park. As I held these letters close and analysed my own thesis findings the world around me suffered increasing, human-caused, environmental catastrophe and I felt myself writing with both love and fury, much like Wright did. I began writing strange letters to Kathleen McArthur, alongside letters to my supervisor Professor Liz Mackinlay. Through these letters I searched for what gardens said and did and felt when they were turned into stories. What happens to garden boundaries in this time of environmental love and loss, and digital connection?' (Publication abstract)

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