| Description |
346 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
The illumined grave / Mary Fortune -- Monsieur Caloche / Jessie Couvreur ('Tasma') -- The chosen vessel / Barbara Baynton -- And women must weep / Henry Handel Richardson -- The carrying of the baby / Ethel Turner -- Peronel McCree, and the sin called pride: The arch-sin / Ethel Anderson -- Flight / Katharine Susannah Prichard -- The persimmon tree / Marjorie Barnard -- The old school/ Christina Stead -- Twenty strong / Margaret Trist -- Under the house / Jessica Anderson -- The Christmas parcel / Olga Masters -- Mai (Black bean) / Oodgeroo Noonuccal -- My father's moon / Elizabeth Jolley -- It's raining in Mango / Thea Astley -- The woman at the window / Marian Eldridge -- Butterfly / Barbara Hanrahan -- My sister's funeral / Robin Sheiner -- The hair and the teeth / Carmel Bird -- The harem / Beverley Farmer -- What we say / Helen Garner -- The girls love each other / Joan London -- Conrad's bear / Susan Hampton -- The test is, if they drown / Kate Grenville -- The serpent's covenant / Alexis Wright -- Other places / Gail Jones -- A tour guide in Utopia / Lucy Sussex -- Cousins / Gillian Mears -- The beautiful hour / Beth Yahp |
| Summary |
Stories by Henry Handel Richardson - Ethel Turner - Oodgeroo Noonuccal - Elizabeth Jolley -Carmel Bird - Helen Garner - Kate Grenville - Gillian Mears_ |
| Notes |
Out of stock - 1/00 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- Women authors.
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Short stories, Australian -- Women authors.
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Short stories, Australian.
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Women -- Australia -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114320
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Author |
Goldsworthy, Kerryn, 1953-
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| LC no. |
00421683 |
| ISBN |
0195512952 |
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