On stage, a woman named Sybil Jones is making a speech. She is talking about the significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. Behind her sits a panel of writers, facing their audience, and one writer drawing Sybil’s likeness in a contemplative daze.
The Sybil in the writer’s drawing starts to move, like the women behind Gilman’s wallpaper. She shakes. She takes the writer by the hand and leads her down into the paper, into the dark recesses of her mind, and into Australia’s past. Into the real and imagined lives of Australia’s women writers. Drawing Sybylla is novel about the challenges women writers have faced in pursuing the writing life.
‘This is a work that wears its significant research very lightly and provides the reader with a tremendously original and imaginative set of pictures about the ideas of creativity and using language to make stories, over and again.’ The 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award judges’ report
By:
Odette Kelada Imprint: University of Western Aus Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
ISBN:9781742589510 ISBN 10: 1742589510 Pages: 176 Publication Date:01 October 2017 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
