The Resource The women's pages, Victoria Purman
The women's pages, Victoria Purman
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The item The women's pages, Victoria Purman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Sydney 1945. The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper, the only job available to her, where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The women's pages
- Title
- The women's pages
- Statement of responsibility
- Victoria Purman
- Subject
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- Australian author
- Australian fiction
- Families
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Journalists -- Fiction
- Labor unions -- Fiction
- Married people
- Prisoners of war
- Stevedores -- Fiction
- Adjustment (Psychology)
- Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- trueSydney, New South Wales
- War correspondents -- Fiction
- Women and war
- Women employees
- Women journalists
- Women's rights
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace -- Fiction
- trueStrikes
- Australia
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Sydney 1945. The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper, the only job available to her, where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Purman, Victoria
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- World War, 1939-1945
- War correspondents
- Journalists
- Labor unions
- Stevedores
- Strikes and lockouts
- Australian fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.)
- Label
- The women's pages, Victoria Purman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 398 pages
- Isbn
- 9781489273987
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- The women's pages, Victoria Purman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 398 pages
- Isbn
- 9781489273987
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
Subject
- Australian author
- Australian fiction
- Families
- Fiction
- Friendship
- Journalists -- Fiction
- Labor unions -- Fiction
- Married people
- Prisoners of war
- Stevedores -- Fiction
- Adjustment (Psychology)
- Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- trueSydney, New South Wales
- War correspondents -- Fiction
- Women and war
- Women employees
- Women journalists
- Women's rights
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace -- Fiction
- trueStrikes
- Australia
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