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Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Introduction
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Argues that Spence's illustration of Australian characters is concentrated on the domestic lives of a small number of characters. She was familiar with the romantic conventions popular in her day, but believed that fiction should be improving as well as entertaining.

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