Literary collaboration

This article examines the collaborative writing relationship between author Dymphna Cusask and the autobiographical subject Catherine Elliott-Mackay. It also considers the contribution of ‘Caddie’ to Australian women’s writing and the history of women’s work.

The Right Honourable:· A Romance of Society and Politics opens on a boat off the coast of Australia with an encounter between an English politician who has spent time in Australia and America, and an Australian woman with whom he…