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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Miles Franklin
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SCARCE First Edition of Australa’s first feminist literary work! . The novel is set in the small town of Noonoon at a time when Australian women have just been granted the right to vote. At an election two male candidates face off: one styling himself the women’s” candidate and the other the “”men’s””. Grandma Clay runs a boarding house in the town and living with her are her granddaughter Dawn and grandson Andrew. Against the backdrop of the election campaign the story follows the development of a love affair between Dawn and a local athlete

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AuthorMiles Franklin
PublisherWilliam Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London
Year Published1909
Binding Type

Hardcover original cloth binding.

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