Jean Devanny (1894–1962)
Autor(a) de Cindie
About the Author
Obras de Jean Devanny
Out of such fires 2 cópias
Devil made saint 1 exemplar(es)
The virtuous courtesan 1 exemplar(es)
Sugar heaven 1 exemplar(es)
By tropic sea and jungle : adventures in North Queensland 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850S-1930s (1987) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women 1870s–1980s (1989) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Devanny, Jean
- Outros nomes
- Crook, Jane
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-01-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1962-03-08
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- New Zealand (birth)
Australia - Local de nascimento
- Ferntown, New Zealand
- Local de falecimento
- Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Locais de residência
- Palmerston North, New Zealand
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Wellington, New Zealand - Ocupação
- novelist
columnist
short-story writer - Relacionamentos
- Franklin, Miles (friend)
Barnard, Marjorie (friend) - Organizações
- Australian Communist Party
Writers League - Pequena biografia
- Jean Devanny, née Crook, was born in Ferntown, New Zealand. Her father William Crook was a miner. She attended school until age 13, when she had to leave to care for her mother and younger siblings. In 1911, she met Francis "Hal" Devanny, also a miner and deeply involved in union affairs. They married the same year and had three children. She learned to play the piano and violin, participated in political activity, and joined Marxist study groups. The family moved to various mining towns before settling in Wellington, where they bought a boarding-house, but it was unsuccessful. By the 1920s, Jean had turned to writing. Her best-known work, The Butcher Shop, was published in 1926. She also published a book of short stories and several more novels, expressing her feelings on motherhood, female consciousness and sexuality, and women's rights, as well as issues of left-wing politics. In 1929, the family moved to Australia, believing that a warmer climate would help their son Karl's weak heart, and became involved in the Communist Party of Australia. Jean was one of the founders of the Writers' League, later the Writers' Association, with Katharine Susannah Prichard and Egon Kisch. In 1935, she became the League's first president. She was a close friend and correspondent of Miles Franklin, Marjorie Barnard and Winifred Hamilton, She had had several disagreements with the leadership of the Communist Party that led to her expulsion in 1940. During the 1950s, she wrote many articles and short stories about the northern Queensland region in which she had settled.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 150
- Popularidade
- #138,700
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 17
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
Devanny writes from experience as a speaker for the Movement against War and Fascism in Queensland in the 1930's and it is there she gathered her material for the novel.
The novel exposes the inequalities of colonial settlement even though Cindie ( a most capable servant) and Randolph Biddow (her boss) attempt a non-racist approach to cane farming. Their approach is none-the-less paternalistic and exploitative.
This is a highly readable novel, historically informative and it has a well paced plot. The happy ending is a bit contrived but it can be forgiven, and Cindie herself is a little too much of a goody to be convincing.… (mais)