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Patricia Clarke

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Description:Australian-born novelist Rosa Praed (1851-1935) emerged from an early life in a bush shack at the furthest edge of settlement in colonial Queensland to become a famous novelist in late Victorian England. At 24, she exchanged a primitive homestead and the loneliness and dangers of the Australian bush for the established comfort and social standing of her husband’s English upper-middle class family. An ambitious, aspiring writer, she dreamt that in England she would find a market for the stories she had already written and for many more that were swirling in her head. Nearly half her 45 books were set in the Queensland she remembered from her early life. She believed her unique experiences as the daughter of early European pioneers and of her privileged position at the centre of Queensland political and social life as the daughter of a Cabinet Minister gave her the knowledge and authority to write about the emotional impact of the Australian bush, European-Aboriginal frontier conflicts, the effect of pioneering life and the emerging political and social life that followed the establishment of Queensland as a separate colony. Her early memories remained unusually vivid particularly the horrors of Hornet Bank, the scene of a massacre in the Burnett district where she lived as a child; the wild beauty and mystery of the mountain ranges near Maroon; the political manoeuvres in the Queensland Parliament and the romantic intrigues in Brisbane society and the rank oppressiveness of Curtis Island, where she realised her marriage had been a mistake. Her novels are remarkable for their acute observation of social and political life and they raise questions regarding gender relations in a male-dominated society, the development of an Australian character, the impact of the landscape, and attitudes to frontier wars, race relations and labour conflicts, euthanasia, divorce and political corruption. When she turned her writing skill to English high society, she was recognised as a gifted satirist and she gained a considerable reputation for her feminist novels. She first introduced a theosophical theme in 'Affinities', published in 1885, a fictional portrayal of the initial wave of English interest in theosophy and Eastern philosophy, almost as it happened. Her 1887 novel 'The Bond of Wedlock' was so successful in its ground-breaking portrayal of feminist opposition to the marriage laws of the time that a theatrical version, 'Ariane', played in the West End for four months. Her meeting in 1899 with Nancy Harward, a mystic personality, represented a coming together of her spiritual searching and her quest for personal and psychic fulfilment. She recognised her ‘twin soul’ and until Nancy’s death their lives were deeply entwined as they believed they had been in previous incarnations. Rosa Praed's life was lived against a background of extraordinary personal tragedies involving each of her four children. Her underlying tragedy was her realisation that she was tied to marriage but was repelled by sexual relations. Her life retains relevance whether she is exploring, with her own blend of freshness, power and originality, the intimate world of colonial society and the foibles of London society at a transitional time or searching for a 'New Age' solution to her own spiritual yearnings or discovering her true sexuality. Patricia Clarke OAM is a writer, editor, historian and former journalist, who has written extensively on women in Australian history and on media history. Several of her twelve books are biographies of women writers and journalists, others explore the role of letters and diaries in the lives of women. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Outback to the Occult: A Life of Australian-born Novelist Rosa Praed. To get started finding The Outback to the Occult: A Life of Australian-born Novelist Rosa Praed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Australian-born novelist Rosa Praed (1851-1935) emerged from an early life in a bush shack at the furthest edge of settlement in colonial Queensland to become a famous novelist in late Victorian England. At 24, she exchanged a primitive homestead and the loneliness and dangers of the Australian bush for the established comfort and social standing of her husband’s English upper-middle class family. An ambitious, aspiring writer, she dreamt that in England she would find a market for the stories she had already written and for many more that were swirling in her head. Nearly half her 45 books were set in the Queensland she remembered from her early life. She believed her unique experiences as the daughter of early European pioneers and of her privileged position at the centre of Queensland political and social life as the daughter of a Cabinet Minister gave her the knowledge and authority to write about the emotional impact of the Australian bush, European-Aboriginal frontier conflicts, the effect of pioneering life and the emerging political and social life that followed the establishment of Queensland as a separate colony. Her early memories remained unusually vivid particularly the horrors of Hornet Bank, the scene of a massacre in the Burnett district where she lived as a child; the wild beauty and mystery of the mountain ranges near Maroon; the political manoeuvres in the Queensland Parliament and the romantic intrigues in Brisbane society and the rank oppressiveness of Curtis Island, where she realised her marriage had been a mistake. Her novels are remarkable for their acute observation of social and political life and they raise questions regarding gender relations in a male-dominated society, the development of an Australian character, the impact of the landscape, and attitudes to frontier wars, race relations and labour conflicts, euthanasia, divorce and political corruption. When she turned her writing skill to English high society, she was recognised as a gifted satirist and she gained a considerable reputation for her feminist novels. She first introduced a theosophical theme in 'Affinities', published in 1885, a fictional portrayal of the initial wave of English interest in theosophy and Eastern philosophy, almost as it happened. Her 1887 novel 'The Bond of Wedlock' was so successful in its ground-breaking portrayal of feminist opposition to the marriage laws of the time that a theatrical version, 'Ariane', played in the West End for four months. Her meeting in 1899 with Nancy Harward, a mystic personality, represented a coming together of her spiritual searching and her quest for personal and psychic fulfilment. She recognised her ‘twin soul’ and until Nancy’s death their lives were deeply entwined as they believed they had been in previous incarnations. Rosa Praed's life was lived against a background of extraordinary personal tragedies involving each of her four children. Her underlying tragedy was her realisation that she was tied to marriage but was repelled by sexual relations. Her life retains relevance whether she is exploring, with her own blend of freshness, power and originality, the intimate world of colonial society and the foibles of London society at a transitional time or searching for a 'New Age' solution to her own spiritual yearnings or discovering her true sexuality. Patricia Clarke OAM is a writer, editor, historian and former journalist, who has written extensively on women in Australian history and on media history. Several of her twelve books are biographies of women writers and journalists, others explore the role of letters and diaries in the lives of women. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Outback to the Occult: A Life of Australian-born Novelist Rosa Praed. To get started finding The Outback to the Occult: A Life of Australian-born Novelist Rosa Praed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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