Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers
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Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers

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Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers

About this book

Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her first novel, The Pea Pickers, was published in 1942. Almost immediately after, Eve was committed to a mental asylum in Auckland where she remained for more than seven years, separated from her three young children. Hailed as a tour de force, The Pea Pickers was based on Eve's real-life experiences in the 1920s and tells the story of two feisty sisters who wander the Australian countryside dressed as men seeking work and adventure. But woven subtly into this brilliant and funny coming-of-age story is the portrait of a complex family constellation: a masculine mother, an evil father, the narrator's adoring sister, and a perplexing heroine who adopts the name of Steve Hart, one of the Ned Kelly gang who was known to masquerade as a woman. Drawing on contemporary evidence, Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers offers a biography that unravels the life and the fiction, and the result is a fascinating and ultimately poignant tale.

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Information

Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781922464415
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About this Book
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Images
  7. About the Author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Eve Langley: The Woman, the Fiction, the Story
  11. Chapter 2 A Family Biography
  12. Chapter 3 Eve Langley and Her Editors
  13. Images
  14. Chapter 4 The Representation of Family in Eve Langley’s Fiction
  15. Chapter 5 June Langley’s Representation of Family
  16. Chapter 6 The Invisible Cloak of Childhood: Speculating on the Eve Langley Story
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index