Louisa Lawson

Louisa Lawson Hardcover, ISBN 0727005871
Publisher: Rigby Limited, 1978
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1978. Hardback dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, bottom edge little bumped, minor edgewear. 148 pp. The mother of poet Henry Lawson was a powerful defender of women's rights, including the right to vote. Her feminism was particularly expressed in her magazine “The Dawn”. This biography also throws new light on her role as wife and mother, and on her attempts to foster the talent that she recognized in her son.