A Certain Style

Kent, Jacqueline

'Beatrice Davis – a Literary Life'; 'the backroom girl of Australian Literature', who, as general editor at Angus and Robertson from 1937 to 1973, discovered and published such writers as Miles Franklin, Hal Porter, Thea Astley, Ruth Park, Patricia Wrightson, went on to judge several major prizes, including the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, was passionate about Australian literature at a time when it was internationally snubbed, brought editing to the status of a craft, and left as part of her legacy, the question asked by a generation of editors, 'What would Beatrice have done?'; illustrated.

Publisher: Penguin Books. First Australian edition 2001
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Ringwood, Vic
Foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper sunned on the spine.


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