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Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin

Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin

Martin, Sylvia

Paperback

Series: Queer Oz Folk, Book 2

Historical FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0645183997
ISBN13: 9780645183993
Publisher: Interventions Inc
Published: Dec 17 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and Mabel Singleton (1877-1965) met in Melbourne as suffrage and peace activists in Vida Goldstein's Women's Political Association. They remained together for thirty-five years as loving friends, raising Mabel's son born in 1911. Through her literary friendship with Miles Franklin (1879-1954), Mary Fullerton's last two volumes of poetry were published in the 1940s. Rescued from near destruction, a box of Mary's manuscripts eventually made its way to the Mitchell Library. It contained poems she never sent to Miles Franklin. These poignant poems, many dedicated to Mabel, trace a love story that sheds light on how women of the early twentieth century may have understood their love for each other.

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