Susan Sheridan

Susan Sheridan is Professor Emerita in the School of Humanities at Flinders University in Adelaide. She has published widely on women's writing, feminist cultural studies and Australian cultural history, including Nine Lives: Postwar women writers making their mark (2011). Her latest book is The Fiction of Thea Astley (2016).

Works By Susan Sheridan

The Tongue is an Eye
Only now do we have a full-length biography of Gwen Harwood. And what a work of love and scholarship it is.
5 June. 2022
Bombast and Anxiety: Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb
At the time of her death in 2004, Thea Astley was rightly remembered as a ‘creative force until the end’ and ‘a literary trailblazer’. A decade later, as is so often the case with writers, Astley’s work has all but disappeared from the public cons...
14 July. 2015
Pity’s cost: In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
In Certain Circles, completed in 1971 but not published until now, concerns two pairs of siblings living in Sydney in the years immediately after World War II. Place and time are comparable to The Watch Tower, and Harrower’s central theme of abus...
12 Aug. 2014
Gaslighting: The Poet’s Wife by Mandy Sayer
‘Our marriage wasn’t always unhappy’: so begins this ‘memoir of a marriage’ between Australian writer Mandy Sayer and her first husband, the Afro-American poet Yusef Komunyakaa. What follows is the chronicle of a deeply troubled relationship from
15 Apr. 2014
A bee inside a violin inside a pear: The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
With The Woman Upstairs, her fifth book, Messud narrows her range, concentrating on a devastated woman recounting a critical event in her life. Nora is an elementary school teacher living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who experiences a ‘Lucy Jordan...
24 May. 2013
Radiant, everlasting: Dear Life by Alice Munro
Among my collection of Alice Munro’s books, the two most prized are the ones that she autographed for me on a visit to Adelaide in March 1979. One was my copy of her first book of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968). The other was the Women’...
4 Mar. 2013

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Susan Sheridan

Works By Susan Sheridan

The Tongue is an Eye

Bombast and Anxiety: Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb

Pity’s cost: In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower

Gaslighting: The Poet’s Wife by Mandy Sayer

A bee inside a violin inside a pear: The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

Radiant, everlasting: Dear Life by Alice Munro