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4 unusual facts about Suzanne Falkiner


E. L. Grant Watson

A biography, E. L. Grant Watson & Australia, by Suzanne Falkiner, was released by UWA Publishing in 2011.

Henry Lawson

Falkiner, Suzanne (1992) Wilderness (The Writers' Landscape), Sydney, Simon and Schuster

Suzanne Falkiner

Eugenia: A Man (1988) biography: the story of Eugenia Falleni, and the ‘Man-Woman Case’, about a transsexual accused of murder in 1920s Sydney

Joan in India (2008) biography: the story of Joan Falkiner, an Australian woman who married the Muslim ruler H.H. Taley Muhammed Khan, the Nawab of Palanpur, in 1939, and lived with him in Gujarat throughout the period leading to Indian Independence


Eve Langley

Suzanne Falkiner, writing about women writing about the wilderness, suggests that "Those rare women who have deliberately gone into the landscape alone, and not trailing in the tracks of a protective husband - from Daisy Bates in the 1880s to Eve Langley in the 1930s and Robyn Davidson in the 1970s - have often had to combat being considered eccentric, or even mad".


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