The Women's Pages

Adelaide, D

The Women's Pages

Adelaide, D

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Publisher:: MacMillan
Citation:: 2015
Issue Date:: 2015-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Adelaide, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3220-8821	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-11-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781743547519	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/121676
dc.description.abstract	Ellis, an ordinary suburban young woman of the 1960s, is troubled by secrets and gaps in her past that become more puzzling as her creator, Dove, writes her story fifty years later. Having read Wuthering Heights to her dying mother, Dove finds she cannot shake off the influence of that singular novel: it has infected her like a disease. Instead of returning to her normal life she follows the story it has inspired to discover more about Ellis, who has emerged from the pages of fiction herself - or has she? - to become a modern successful career woman. The Women's Pages is about the choices and compromises women must make, their griefs and losses, and their need to fill in the absent spaces where other women - especially those who become mothers - should have been. And it is about the mysterious process of creativity, about the way stories are shaped and fiction is formed. Right up to its astonishing conclusion, The Women's Pages asserts the power of the reader's imagination, which can make the deepest desires and strangest dreams come true	en_US
dc.format	Metafictional novel	en_US
dc.publisher	MacMillan	en_US
dc.title	The Women's Pages	en_US
utslib.location	Australia	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Australia	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	The Women’s Pages is a metafictional novel about women, work and relationships. Research background This project sits in the 1904 Creative Writing category. April Lindner’s Catherine retells Wuthering Heights as a commercial contemporary romance; Jasper Fforde satirises the main characters and themes of Wuthering Heights in two of his novels; Alice Hoffman writes a contemporary version of Wuthering Heights in Here on Earth, which focuses on the central love story. I have always been fascinated by this novel. The research question is, can the process of writing a response to Wuthering Heights explain to myself and to readers my relationship with this novel? Research contribution The Women’s Pages argues that Wuthering Heights transcends its reputation as a romance story. It repudiates the idea that its principal characters have centrality and agency. It reveals that the central concern of Wuthering Heights is not with character nor with theme but with the nature of storytelling itself. This discovery is written as a novel within a novel, in which a contemporary character is so creatively ‘haunted’ by this precursor text and by its author, Emily Brontë, that she writes her own novel and creates her own life. Research significance The novel is published by Picador Australia and has been reviewed in the Guardian (‘tender, wise and extraordinary reading’) and the Monthly (‘addresses eternal issues in a fresh and uniquely Australian way’); it has been selected for discussion at all the major Australian literary festivals. It has been longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.	en_US

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Ellis, an ordinary suburban young woman of the 1960s, is troubled by secrets and gaps in her past that become more puzzling as her creator, Dove, writes her story fifty years later. Having read Wuthering Heights to her dying mother, Dove finds she cannot shake off the influence of that singular novel: it has infected her like a disease. Instead of returning to her normal life she follows the story it has inspired to discover more about Ellis, who has emerged from the pages of fiction herself - or has she? - to become a modern successful career woman. The Women's Pages is about the choices and compromises women must make, their griefs and losses, and their need to fill in the absent spaces where other women - especially those who become mothers - should have been. And it is about the mysterious process of creativity, about the way stories are shaped and fiction is formed. Right up to its astonishing conclusion, The Women's Pages asserts the power of the reader's imagination, which can make the deepest desires and strangest dreams come true

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