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Meg Brayshaw

Meg Brayshaw is a doctoral candidate at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on representations of Sydney in fiction by Australian women writers.

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Meg Brayshaw

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Meg Brayshaw
The Tank Stream Press: Urban Modernity and Cultural Life in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney

In Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), Christina Stead evokes the city’s history in her naming of the Tank Stream Press, the novel’s central location…

7 December 2016
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‘No light, no land or sea’: Urban alienation in Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City.

Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, Down in the City (1957), introduces concerns that define her oeuvre, offering a typically adroit depiction of destructive domestic relations and…

16 November 2016