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Jacqueline Kent. A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life, the biography of Australia’s doyenne of publishing.
.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Jacqueline Kent’s inspiration for writing a second edition of A Certain Style after her first edition won the National Biography Award in 2002.
How Jacqueline structured A Certain Style by bringing together three strands of narrative.
How Jacqueline retraced Beatrice Davis’s footsteps when so much of the 1940s and 1950s…
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