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6 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/ces.4138
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Alice Michel, « Unconventional Memoirs: Mary Fortune’s Account of Life on the Diggings », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.4138
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In “Twenty-Six Years Ago: or, the Diggings from ’55,” published in The Australian Journal (1882-83), Waif Wander (Mary Fortune’s pen name) provides an autobiographical account of an unconventional woman’s life on the Australian goldfields. This article seeks to stress the unconventionality of Mary Fortune’s memoirs, written beyond norms of genre and gender, in order to contribute to their re-evaluation. It addresses Fortune’s exclusion from the Australian literary histories as well as her eccentric and marginal way of life.