Introduction

The work of Thea Astley

Authors

  • Susan Sheridan Flinders University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.25

Keywords:

Special issue introduction, Thea Astley

Abstract

Introduction

Author Biography

  • Susan Sheridan, Flinders University

    Susan Sheridan is Professor Emerita in Humanities at Flinders University and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has published widely on women’s writing, feminist cultural studies and Australian cultural history. Her latest books are The Fiction of Thea Astley (Cambria, 2016) and Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark (University of Queensland Press, 2011).

References

Emily Maguire, ‘No endings,’ in Thea Astley, Drylands: A book for the world’s last reader (Melbourne: Text, 2018 [1999]), p. xii.

Jennifer Down, ‘Unsentimental journey’, in Thea Astley, Reaching Tin River [1990] (Melbourne: Text, 2018 [1990]), p. x.

Thea Astley, ‘Being a Queenslander: A form of literary and geographical conceit’, in Susan Sheridan and Paul Genoni (eds), Thea Astley’s fictional worlds (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2006), p. 9.

Susan Sheridan, The fiction of Thea Astley (New York: Cambria, 2016), p. 2.

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Published

2019-12-01

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2019): Thea Astley Special Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Sheridan, S. (2019). Introduction: The work of Thea Astley. Queensland Review, 26(2), 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.25