Australian Women Writers Gen 2 Week 13-19 Jan. 2019
Sue (Whispering Gums) has posted a review of Louise Mack’s follow up to Teens which I reviewed yesterday (here). Between them they provide a fascinating insight into 1880s and 1890s Sydney, when university was a real possibility for the first time, at least for those young women whose parents could afford it.
Well, that was, surprisingly, genuinely enjoyable. Louise Mack’s Girls together is a sequel to her novel Teens [], and features protagonist Lennie (Elinor) Leighton. It shouldn’t have been a surprise, given I know something about Mack, through my Monday Musings on her and my review of her debut novel The world is round, but it was, because … Read on …
The Australian Legend 
Thanks Bill … I’d like to read more Mack. She’s a genuinely interesting character isn’t she, in that it seems she wasn’t going to play by convention but do what she wanted to do.
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From what I’ve read she seems to have been a genuine ‘Independent Woman’. She’s probably the Gen 2 woman I’d most like to read more of.
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Yes, I think so… And me too.
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