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EXILES AT HOME by MODJESKA, DRUSILLA
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Exiles At Home traces the lives of a generation of Australia's women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks and the memories of their contemporaries. 'Invaluable to all readers seriously interested in the history of Australian literature.' - Weekend AustralianAt the end of the 1920s Christina Stead ...Show more
Exiles at Home by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Classic | Series: AR Classics
Exiles At Home traces the lives of a generation of Australia's women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks and the memories of their contemporaries. 'Invaluable to all readers seriously interested in the history of Australian literature.' - Weekend Australian At the end of the 1920s Christina Stea ...Show more
Janet Laurence: After Eden by Gene Sherman, Drusilla Modjeska, Rachael Kent & Dolla S Merrillees
Category: Art and Design
This exhibition catalogue is published on the occasion of Janet Laurence’s solo exhibition at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. A new commission, After Eden explores our experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world. Laurence’s work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualitie ...Show more
Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
In this award-winning book, Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. But when the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the thread of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and sang to her children, ...Show more
Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Biography
A stunning new memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way ...Show more
Second Half First - A Memoir by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Biography
Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way she has lived. From a childhood in England, and her parents' difficult marri ...Show more
Sisters by Drusilla Modjeska (Editor); Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp; Dorothy Hewett
Category: Biography
Edited by Drusilla Modjeska, acclaimed author of The Orchard, Poppy and Exiles at Home, this famous anthology explores the sometimes joyous, sometimes vexed world of sisters, with stories and essays by six of Australia's finest writers comprising: Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp ...Show more
Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Art
'This is the most beautifully written book about the processes associated with the art of painting that I have read in a long, long time. . . The voice is Modjeska's authentic own: consistently passionate, intelligent, reflective and wise.'–Stephen Scheding, Sydney Morning HeraldStella Bowen and Grace C ...Show more
Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska
Category: Fiction
A moving, deeply insightful study of two artists-both twentieth-century Australian women-who lived and worked in divergent realms Drusilla Modjeska's title derives from an anecdote about the composer who, while creating a piece of music, ordered his family to remain silent while taking a meal with him-s ...Show more