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The diaries of Barbara Hanrahan / edited by Elaine Lindsay.
LIBRA PR9619.3.H3 Z467 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanrahan, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hanrahan, Barbara--Diaries.
- Hanrahan, Barbara.
- Diaries.
- Women novelists, Australian--20th century--Diaries.
- Women novelists, Australian.
- Women printmakers--Australia--Diaries.
- Women printmakers.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services, 1998.
- Summary:
- Writer and artist Barbara Hanrahan kept diaries from her late teens to her untimely death at the age of fifty-two. They chronicle her turbulent personal development and her passionate engagement with literature and art.
- With disconcerting honesty she describes her intense relationships with her family, her partner and her friends. Spontaneous outpourings of enthusiasm alternate with doubts, bitterness and regret about her work, herself and the people she meets.
- After achieving recognition as an artist and writer, Barbara was torn between commercial demands and her own desire for a creative, spiritual life apart from the world. In her last years she struggled to fulfil her artistic responsibilities and to anticipate with joy the adventure of death.
- Contents:
- Becoming an Artist and Writer 1960-1972 1
- Living as an Artist and Writer 1972-1984 75
- Living for Art and Literature 1984-1991 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [364]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 070223060X
- 0702228923
- OCLC:
- 38829456
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