From a Distant Shore explores the lives and creative work of
Australia's many expatriate writers living and working in Britain
since the early 19th century. The book contests the notion of
Australia as predominantly an 'import' culture and shows
Australians exporting literary talent to Britain and further
afield, from 1820 until the present. Stories of the lives and works
of writers in all genres - from romance and crime to contemporary
literary fiction - are interweaved in a collective biography. The
book uncovers many unknown writers and document their adventures
both on and off the page. It examines the expatriate lives of
figures such as Pamela Travers (author of Mary Poppins), Frederic
Manning, Randolph Stow, and Madeleine St. John. Additionally, it
explores the work of lesser known writers, such as Jill Neville and
her vibrant London literary milieu in the 1960s, Christina Stead's
expatriate years, the modernist dramas of Patrick White and Barry
Humphries, as well as the arguments with England expressed in the
lives and work of Peter Porter, Germaine Greer, Michael Blakemore,
and Geoffrey Robertson. This book is the first historically
comprehensive and detailed examination of expatriate Australian
writers at work in Britain. It illuminates a century and a half of
intense literary activity by Australians living abroad, and it
offers insight into the works of the writers and their
transnational literary achievements. (Series: Australian Literary
Studies) *** "In tune with our globalised world, the approach of
Bennett and Pender is quite different. In place of the old polarity
of cultural metropolis in England and cultural cringe at home, they
are more interested in convergence, and the ways in which even the
most apparently assimilated Australian writers gave a distinct
inflection to British forms." - Jim Davidson, The Saturday Age,
Sydney Morning Herald, March 16, 2013 *** "While attitudes to
Britain and reasons for living there may have changed over the past
200 years, it has remained a drawcard for Australian writers, as
Bruce Bennett nd Anne Pender demononstrate in this comprehensive
study." - The Times Literary Supplement, November 1, 2013
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