Includes index. Contents: From wallflowers to tall poppies? The Sydney society of women painters 1910 – 1934 / Angela Phillip p1. Dulcie Deamer and the bohemian body / Peter Kirkpatrick p13. Almost dancing: Thea Proctor and the modern woman / Mary Mackay p26. “Diamonds of the dust heap”? Women’s diary writing between the wars / Katie Holmes p38. Looking through the prism: The sculpture of Eleonore Lange / Geoffrey Batchen p 49. “No thank you, but do you have any painted fan decorations?” Modernist women artists and the gatekeepers of culture / Pam James p63. Women of letters and the uses of memory / Carole Ferrier p73. Dymphna Cusack comets soon pass: the genius and the potato wife / Frances de Groen p91. Ethel Carrick Fox: The cheat or the cheated? / Elin Howe p105. “Dear Beppo” recuperating “Margaret Fane” / Michael Sharkey p115. “Conventional women of ability”: M. Barnard Eldershaw and the question of cultural authority / Maryanne Dever p133. “Red Witches”: Perceptions of communist women writers / Julie Wells p 147.