Je suis Australienne : remarkable women in France, 1880-1945

The Six Chapters Of This Book Look To A Sample Of Extraordinary Women Who Travelled To France At Different Historical Moments And Who Formulated Their Impressions In Fiction, Diaries, Letters, Autobiographies Between 1880 And 1945. It Was A Fecund Time In The Development Of Australian Women's Lives. As Travellers They Were Challenged To Adapt To New Environments In A World Of Changing Attitudes To Feminine Education, Professionalism And Sexuality. Some Found Themselves In The Thick Of New European Artistic Developments; Others In The Theatres Of Devastating World Wars; All Bonded Irrevocably With The France They Visited; Some Never Returned.--provided By Publisher. Daisy White : An Accomplished Schoolgirl In France, 1887-1889 -- Trouble In Bohemia : The Belle Epoch Novels Of Tasma, 1891 And 1895 -- Digger Nurses On The Western Front, 1916-1919 -- Stella Bowen's 'education Of Another Sort' : The Paris Years, 1922-1933 -- 'all That Glitters' : Illusory Words In Christina Stead's The Beauties And The Furies (1936) And House Of All Nations (1938) -- 'no Time To Be Frail' : Nancy Wake, Resistance Heroine, 1940-1944. Rosemary Lancaster. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 225-230) And Index. This book profiles extraordinary Australian women who traveled to France between 1880 and 1945 and who formulated their impressions in fiction, diaries, letters, and autobiographies. The book explores how women adapted to new environments in a world of changing attitudes to feminine education, professionalism, and sexuality. Its sequential unfolding reveals Australian responses to key moments in French history - notably the Belle Epoque, World War I, the "roaring twenties," the politically unstable 1930s, and World War II. Drawing from texts not readily available, Je Suis Australienne includes the narratives of a schoolgirl, an artist, novelists, nurses, and a secret agent. (In 2005, author Rosemary Lancaster was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes acadmiques by the French government for services to French culture abroad.)