Sneaky Little Revolutions — Selected Essays of Charmian Clift. Edited by Nadia Wheatley
NewSouth — Paperback.
Through the turbulent final years of the 1960s, Charmian Clift’s weekly essays captivated readers across the country, and helped to transform Australian society. Her life inspired legends that continue to cast a spell, fifty years after her death.
This anthology of over eighty of Charmian Clift’s essays is selected and introduced by her biographer, Nadia Wheatley. In these ‘sneaky little revolutions’, as Clift once called her ‘pieces’, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia’s role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for a local film industry — and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.
NewSouth — Paperback.
Through the turbulent final years of the 1960s, Charmian Clift’s weekly essays captivated readers across the country, and helped to transform Australian society. Her life inspired legends that continue to cast a spell, fifty years after her death.
This anthology of over eighty of Charmian Clift’s essays is selected and introduced by her biographer, Nadia Wheatley. In these ‘sneaky little revolutions’, as Clift once called her ‘pieces’, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia’s role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for a local film industry — and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.
NewSouth — Paperback.
Through the turbulent final years of the 1960s, Charmian Clift’s weekly essays captivated readers across the country, and helped to transform Australian society. Her life inspired legends that continue to cast a spell, fifty years after her death.
This anthology of over eighty of Charmian Clift’s essays is selected and introduced by her biographer, Nadia Wheatley. In these ‘sneaky little revolutions’, as Clift once called her ‘pieces’, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia’s role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for a local film industry — and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.