Sylvia Martin

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Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen PalmerPaperback, 19 April 2016

Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer
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Print Length
344 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Western Australia Press
Date Published
19 Apr 2016
ISBN-10
1742588255
ISBN-13
9781742588254

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Aileen Palmer - poet, translator, political activist, adventurer - was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were well known as novelists, poets, critics and journalists, and Nettie suspected that their eldest would grow up with 'ink in her veins'. Aileen certainly inherited her parents' talents, publishing poetry, translating the work of Ho Chi Minh, and recording what she referred to as 'semi-fictional bits of egocentric writing'. She also absorbed their interest in leftist politics, joining the Communist Party at university. This, combined with her bravery, led to participation in the Spanish Civil War and the ambulance service in London during World War II. The return to Australia was not easy, and Aileen never successfully reintegrated into civilian life. In Ink in Her Veins Sylvia Martin paints an honest and moving portrait in which we see a talented woman slowly brought down by war, family expectations, and psychiatric illness and the sometimes cruel 'treatments' common in the 20th century. [Subject: Literary Criticism, Biography]

Product Details

Author:
Sylvia Martin
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
19 April 2016
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.96 cm
Genre:
Feminine
ISBN-10:
1742588255
ISBN-13:
9781742588254
Language:
English
Pages:
344
Weight:
530.7 gm

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