Australian Women Writers 1900-1950
An exhibition of material from the Monash University Library Rare Books Collection Australian Women 29 March to 31 July 2007 Writers 1900-1950 Exhibition room, level 1, ISB Wing, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Clayton campus Item 17 Image from cover of Coonardoo : the well in the shadow, by Katharine Susannah Prichard. London, Jonathan Cape, 1929 cover credits thanks Item 60 Cover of The glasshouse, by Exhibition and catalogue by Associate Thanks to art historian, Dr Janine Burke, M Barnard Eldershaw. London, Harrap, Professor Maryanne Dever and Dr Ann for opening the exhibition. Thanks to 1936 Vickery, Centre for Womens Studies and Rare Books Assistant, Lorraine David for Gender Research, Monash University. organisational work, particularly at the Copies of the catalogue are available opening; to the Publications and Web from Rare Books Collection, Library, Assistant, Rosemary Miller, for her design Box 4, Monash University, Victoria, 3800 skills; and to Iris Carydias for preparing the Australia. electronic catalogue An electronic version of this catalogue, with additional illustrations, is available at the Monash University Library website. Electronic catalogue prepared by Iris Carydias www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/ 1 Australian Women Writers 1900-1950 An exhibition of material from the Monash University Library, Rare Book Collection Introduction Writing produced by women in the first half of the twentieth century challenged previously given roles of gender and negotiated a rapidly changing social climate. Australia became an independent nation in 1901. By 1903 it was the only country where white women could both vote and stand for national parliament. Women’s writing between 1900 and 1950 reflected the suffrage movement, as well as the effects of Federation, two World Wars, increasing industrialisation and urbanisation, women entering the workplace, and emergent discourses of sexology and psychology.
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