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(2017) Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer.
Ranging from feminist movements, Labour Movement to celebration of Australian natural world, Mary Gilmore has been a legend. Gilmore's complex yet "eternal" love for the legendary Australian national poet, Henry Lawson, and their extraordinary intellectual literary partnership has remained in oblivion. Gilmore's biographers have often doubted that Lawson's literary fame is the result of Gilmore's silent sacrifice of her literary space because of her blind love for Lawson. Based on Gilmore's extensive collection of verse, prose, biographies and unpublished letters, this chapter explores the feminist space of relationship between two talented and self-reliant Australian women writers, Dame Mary Gilmore and Henry Lawson's mother, Louisa Lawson and their literary life in relation to Henry Lawson.
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Das, D. (2017)., Poetic rivalry and silent love: Lawson's muse and Mary the bard, in D. Das & S. Dasgupta (eds.), Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 75-92.
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