FALS: Colin Roderick Lecture 1991: Shirley Walker

Vanishing Edens: Responses to Australia in the Works of Mary Gilmore, Judith Wright and Dorothy Hewett by Shirley Walker, 1991. Also recorded as Monograph 23.

The Colin Roderick Lectures, sponsored by the Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, are delivered annually by a distinguished Australian writer or academic at James Cook University, and subsequently published by the Foundation. The series is named for Emeritus Professor Colin Roderick, Foundation Professor of English at James Cook University and distinguished Lawson scholar. 

Shirley Walker is Director of the University of New England's Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies. She has published widely on Australian women writers, and her books include Flame and Shadow: A Study of Judith Wright's Poetry in the Studies in Australian Literature Series, and a complete bibliography of Judith Wright. She is also the Editor of Who is She: Images of Woman in Australian Fiction.

Professor A.J. Hassall
Executive Director