The West Island: Five Twentieth-Century New Zealanders in Australia

Helen Bones

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS29.6273

The West Island: Five Twentieth-Century New Zealanders in Australia

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Helen Bones Western Sydney University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-2813

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https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS29.6273

Abstract

Stephanie Johnson’s The West Island is a collective biography of four writers and one artist and their experiences of living trans-Tasman lives. Like Johnson herself, Ronald Wakelin, Douglas Stewart, Jean Devanny, Eric Baume and Dulcie Deamer were born and raised in New Zealand and then spent a considerable portion of their lives in Australia.

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Author Biography

Helen Bones, Western Sydney University

Helen Bones is a Fellow at the University of Western Sydney. Her The Expatriate Myth was published by Otago UP last year.

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Published

2019-12-18

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No. NS29 (2019): Journal of New Zealand Studies

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