![]() ![]() ![]() Flora Eldershaw became a teacher, and eventually Head of PLC in Sydney. Both born in 1897 into middle-class professional families, they met at Sydney University but established themselves as independent of their families before turning to writing. There are two reasons why I persisted with it: I wanted to contribute to Bill’s AWW Gen 3 Week at The Australian Legend and the book is very rare now and hard to get hold of, and it’s part of Australia’s literary history.Īlas, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow has a history more interesting than the story within its pages…įirstly, it is a work of collaborative writing, by Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw. ![]() I’m not surprised that the censored (1947) edition wasn’t popular with the reading public, and now, having read the uncensored (1983) version, I’m inclined to think that the rejection of this novel had little to do with the censor’s scissors. Oh, dear, it feels disloyal to The Sisterhood and the feminist Virago publishing project to say this, but Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a really dreary book. ![]()
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