Ann-Marie Priest

About The Author

Ann-Marie Priest grew up in country South Australia, but has lived most of her adult life in rural Queensland. She writes essays and reviews, and her first book, Great Writers, Great Loves: The Reinvention of Love in the Twentieth-Century, explored the love lives of a group of influential twentieth-century writers. She has a PhD in English literature and teaches at Central Queensland University.

Books by Ann-Marie Priest

A Free Flame

Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century

By Ann-Marie Priest
‘I need to be a writer,’ Ruth Park told her future husband, D’Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. ‘That’s what I need from life.’ She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of being ‘real’ artists, a number of precocious girls in Australian cities were weighin...
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