Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Davies, Kerrie, 1972- author.

Title A wife's heart / Kerrie Davies
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2017

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Summary AAn innovative, imaginative work of biography, examining Bertha and Henry Lawson's marriage through a modern lens Henry Lawson was Australia's bush bard, a revered cultural icon, yet he descended into alcoholism, poverty and an early death. Many blamed his young wife, Bertha, for his personal and creative decline. And yet in April 1903, Bertha Lawson alleged in an affidavit that her husband was habitually drunk and cruel, leading her eventually to demand a judicial separation. In A Wife's Heart A Wife's Heart offers an intimate portrait of the Lawsons' marriage, examined through a modern lens. It is an innovative, imaginative work of biography that reflects on the politics of relationships and the enduring complexities of love
Analysis Australian
Subject Lawson, Bertha, 1876-1957.
SUBJECT Lawson, Bertha, 1876-1957 fast
Subject Divorced women -- Australia -- Biography
Single mothers -- Australia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Divorced women
Single mothers
Australia
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780702259197
0702259195
9780702259203
0702259209