Passionate Friends - Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin
Author(s): Sylvia Martin
History | Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir | Australian/Aotearoa
Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and Mabel Singleton (1877-1965) met in Melbourne as suffrage and peace activists in Vida Goldstein's Women's Political Association. They remained together for thirty-five years as loving friends, raising Mabel's son born in 1911. Through her literary friendship with Miles Franklin (1879-1954), Mary Fullerton's last two volumes of poetry were published in the 1940s. Rescued from near destruction, a box of Mary's manuscripts eventually made its way to the Mitchell Library. It contained poems she never sent to Miles Franklin. These poignant poems, many dedicated to Mabel, trace a love story that sheds light on how women of the early twentieth century may have understood their love for each other.
February 2022
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- : Interventions Inc
- : Interventions Inc
- : 01 December 2021
- : 01 February 2022
- : books
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- : 821/.912 B
- : Paperback
- : Sylvia Martin