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Vanishing Histories

Uncovering women disappeared from history: Miles Franklin, Mary Cecil Allen and more

Kerrie Davies (Photo credit Oliver Findlay)
Yves Rees (Photo credit Bernard Wright)
Susan Wyndham (Photo credit Marco Lang)
Wednesday 21 May 2025
9.30-10.30am
Event Code: 10
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Miles Franklin is a literary legend now, but her story, and those of women like her, were nearly lost to the passage of time.

Kerrie Davies unwinds the mysteries of Miles Franklin’s lost years in Miles Franklin Undercover: The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career, constructing a real-life sequel to My Brilliant Career using never-before-published material. Yves Rees dives into the early days of Australia’s relationship with America through the forgotten lives of 10 Australian women, from an artist to an advisor to JFK, in Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America.

Join Kerrie and Yves in conversation with journalist and co-editor of Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters, Susan Wyndham.
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State Library of NSW, Library Auditorium
Macquarie Street Wing, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000