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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Catherine Helen Spence: Pragmatic Utopian
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The author argues that the ideas Spence worked hard to disseminate were chiefly pragmatic; that she failed to understand the function of art and literature beyond the simply didactic. However, in her work, national pride found a definitive female voice for the first time.

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    y separately published work icon Who Is She? Shirley Walker (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1983 Z191670 1983 anthology criticism St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1983 pg. 12-25
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