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'In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.
'In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends "A love letter" to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in "The letter I wish I'd written", Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke "To my first boss", and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes "To the best present I ever received".
'And some gentlemen correspondents - including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis - have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter "To the woman who changed my life".
'By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing.' (From the publisher's website.)
'In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends "A love letter" to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in "The letter I wish I'd written", Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke "To my first boss", and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes "To the best present I ever received".
'And some gentlemen correspondents - including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis - have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter "To the woman who changed my life".
'By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: To Alan and Galia Hardy, Lisa McGuire and a pig named Edgar.
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All royalties for this book will go to Edgar's Mission animal rescue shelter.
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League of Gentlemen
2013
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 November 2013; (p. 10) 'The female force behind hit literary event Women of Letters have invited a bunch of blokes to reveal their inner scribe...' -
Reviving the Lost Art of Letter Writing
2011-2012
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— Appears in: Inscribe , Summer no. 5 2011-2012; (p. 3) 'The style in which the women read their letters to the audience differs quite dramatically too. Some embrace the theatre of the moment, reciting their letter as if in a bid to win an Academy Award.' (Editor's abstract)
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2011
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence -
Off the Shelf : Letters
2011
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 3 December 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence -
In Short : Fiction
2011
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 November 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence ; When We Were Two 2011 single work novel ; Griffith Review no. 34 Summer 2011 periodical issue
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Untitled
2011
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 91 no. 4 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence -
In Short : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 November 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence ; When We Were Two 2011 single work novel ; Griffith Review no. 34 Summer 2011 periodical issue -
Off the Shelf : Letters
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 3 December 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10-11 December 2011; (p. 23)
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence -
Review : Women of Letters
2011
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— Appears in: Crikey , December 2011;
— Review of Women of Letters : Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence 2011 anthology correspondence -
Putting Pen to Paper and Letting It All Spill Out
2011
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 October 2011; (p. 3) -
Reviving the Lost Art of Letter Writing
2011-2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Inscribe , Summer no. 5 2011-2012; (p. 3) 'The style in which the women read their letters to the audience differs quite dramatically too. Some embrace the theatre of the moment, reciting their letter as if in a bid to win an Academy Award.' (Editor's abstract)
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League of Gentlemen
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 November 2013; (p. 10) 'The female force behind hit literary event Women of Letters have invited a bunch of blokes to reveal their inner scribe...'
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