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Three Ways of Looking at Kalymnos : Charmian Clift’s Differing Versions of One Greek Island
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Three Ways of Looking at Kalymnos : Charmian Clift’s Differing Versions of One Greek Island
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'In 1951, married Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, feeling stifled by postwar conservatism, left Sydney behind to find a more ‘authentic’ way of living. They went first to London, the mecca for Australian literary expatriates, where there was no shortage of work and culture, but where they quickly felt trapped by the ‘rat-race’ mentality of a modern city. So in 1954 they left again, this time for the Greek islands, disposing of material possessions and cutting many of their personal ties. Hoping for a permanent shift from mundane to romantic, they embraced the shining ideals offered by Greek island life: other-worldly beauty; ‘simple’ Greek lifestyles, and freedom from the many pressures of the ‘real’ world.' (Introduction)
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Three Ways of Looking at Kalymnos : Charmian Clift’s Differing Versions of One Greek Island
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Subjects:
- Honour's Mimic 1964 single work novel
- Mermaid Singing 1956 single work autobiography
- Peel Me a Lotus 1959 single work autobiography
- Walk to the Paradise Gardens 1960 single work novel
- The Sponge Divers 1955 single work novel
- Half the Perfect World : Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 2018 multi chapter work biography
- The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift 2001 single work biography
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Hydra,
Greek islands,
cGreece,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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