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'Like many Australian writers, especially the women, Harrower's work has lacked sustained critical attention, and this book has an important role to play as the first collection of critical essays on her oeuvre.' -- Susan Sheridan * Australian Book Review * 'Both individually and as a collection, the chapters offer an appreciation of the historical place Harrower's work has in 'Australian literature', but they also set out to question the usefulness of such nationalist frameworks today for understanding Harrower's oeuvre. If the collection has had a hand in 'rediscovering' Harrower and her work, the result is not only the recuperation of 'lost (classic) texts', but also new assessments and intelligent interpretations of Harrower's writing.' -- Tanya Dalziell * Australian Literary Studies * 'Harrower inspires some unsurprisingly personal responses, which make up the first few essays in this collection ... As the collection continues, these refreshingly punchy accounts give way to more traditional critical essays ... Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays is a welcome attempt to compensate for a fifty-year silence, but there is much still to be said about this distinctively Australian writer.' -- Antonia Cundy * The Times Literary Supplement *
