The Archive · 1938

Determined Women

"The Memories that Abide" by Euepet Keith Robertson Scott contain The Diary of a Fruit Farmer is continued, Here isan entry. of April 9: aiding bel. xang from thet nine me, last ch, a mom, eel ces Rare "Malrriét! me vat oat Soe BP okda!

Te Maraues of Crewe denier cis Bos ath Covers Hen ea leh td planes me for 'd: tying the whole house Cowman's Detight On getting an enquiry from a young engineer who wanted to leave his work in London arid start farming, the Editor wrote to some experts jong his subseribers—and their letters are given—serious letters calculated to make a young man think ind one from a bank clerk turned Jeowman, ending: sgNoyerieless., decplte, all the an, F wound apt tive tendon saale {for all the tea la China Tt would be impossible to read "The Countryman" and stilt maintain that country life must be dull, The variety of articles and information is astonishing—and the curious thing is that there is not a page that is tedious or anything jess than attractive, 'There are even countrymen who make the best of life in London, fand explain how they do it, There fare sections for country houses and feottages, gardens, poultry, bees, rabbits, in fact every country activity' that it is possible to think of—tor whenever a countryman has anything of interest fo impart he seems to write to his magazine namesake about it, Overseas Novelists Bosays i AvormaLtay Ficroy By M.

Stine Mabey eae ti 1081—these conversations come from Staffordshire close to the Cheshire border, Here is a satisfied amt theeurd, "Sothern. twill a very nod prurient niet, "save {9 ne. and day"an' she was ever et loose my alfeetion's anna. than dit Ihave "proven: him Dlous ud in good circumstances Fox to Lighthouse Mr. ©. D. Carus-Wilson describing his tame foxes admits thee he, wife and daughter, have all suffered for the pleasure of keeping them—"I bear a sear where the great tooth of my first fox. tore the flesh of my. ithe finger," But these bites and, misunderstandings merely came from their owners' ignorance, for hunting, you will be me felsited fo know tial though Ihave wene keen follower of hounds, fave since any experience with tame foxes felt unable to hunt any more.

Mr, R, M. Lockley continues "In Search of an Island" with North Ronaldshay, and in the course of his article gives a pathetic description of the holocaust of migrating birds by. the revolving North Ronaldshay light, He realized that the slaughter that he saw was but one of many such de-he autalian ae sways wee one ant irons el ages aen Tough Sas Kener Stee lat po "aot scalar Morale, el how rote aang lora ihe Sagan heel Resdoneaitn rt and fetiess" in 7 the last few Fear, not ily nas the voukme Yo Australian Mtetature Increased and. tts quality Improves, but, there Tetons She holds that women have excelled! in novel writing more than in any other art and that it looks Australia were going to follow in this tradition, for in the still Ymited list of Ausiralian novelists at least two women have found their way] into first rank:

'Kimeries "iS "despite. Mer maze won" the hae ar ae 2a] pit fumes a! wortaneuesry Handel Hichardogn, And next to her T should Tike' to place, nother, woman, Kathe~ One Susannah Prichard.

These two women she takes frst in an analysis "in which the sexes are numerically equally divided: Martin' Mills, Leonard Mann, Vance Palmer, Frank Dalby Davison: Eleanor

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