Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvrier

by Patricia Clarke

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Biography of 19th century Australian novelist, lecturer and foreign correspondent, from her birth in London, and early life in Hobart to her death in Brussels. Includes references, a bibliography and an index. The author is a journalist whose publications include books dealing with the lives of women in 19th century Australia. She has been editor of the Canberra Historical Journal since 1987.

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Patricia Clarke draws on original records and evidence, such as Giblin's diary kept during World War II - a unique social record and a powerful witness to the immense suffering and futility of war - to portray the courageous public and private lire or this unconventional feminist.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS
823Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction
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PR9619.2 .T38 .C57Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.

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