Jacqueline Kent "Inconvenient Women: Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970"

Biographers in Conversation · Mar 4, 2026 · 35m

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Inconvenient Women: Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

Jacqueline Kent traces the ‘missing generation’ of Australian radical women writers, who bridged the gap between suffragists and second-wave feminism.

These writers were politically active and formally transgressive, challenging norms in both their activism and subject matter.

The collective-biography form enables Kent to show how these women intersected through organisations like the…