The Importance of Being Eve Langley de Thwaite, Joy L - 1989

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 8vo (220 x 145 mm), 514 pp, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. There is a remainder line by the spine foot. This biography of the Australian novelist tells of her years of wandering as a child; of her crop-picking days when she and her sister dressed as, and behaved as boys; of her doomed marriage; of her incessant compulsive writing; of her committal to a mental institution for seven years; of her assumption by deed poll of the name Oscar Wilde; and of her final, lonely days living in a three-roomed hut at Katoomba.' NOTE: Postage within Australia $12.00.