Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of l’Oiseau-Lyre, 1884–1962
Melbourne University Publishing, $49.95 hb
Virtuoso display
One of the defining features of recent years in Australian ‘literature’ (as I suppose we must call it), in tandem with a perceived growth in the quantity of fiction and poetry by women, titles reflecting the ethnic diversity of origin in more and more writers, and a growth industry in Aboriginal studies, has been the remarkable increase in sophistication of approach to biography. Perhaps more specifically, cultural biography.
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Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of l’Oiseau-Lyre, 1884–1962
by Jim Davidson
Melbourne University Publishing, $49.95 hb
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