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Issue Details: First known date: 1946... 1946 Our Missing Heroines
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D. E. (John Webb) speculates on the reasons for Australian literature's abundance of male characters and rarity of females. The cause is partly laid at the feet of Henry Lawson 'whose world is predominantly one of men' and who 'set the fashion for later writers'.

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