Kylie Tennant
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Foveaux was Kyle Tennant's second novel and was drawn from her experiences living in the then disease-ridden slums of Redfern and Surry Hills in the l
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ate 1930s. It is a substantial novel of Sydney recounting the inner city around William Street in the first decades of the twentieth century.Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912. In 1932, she married Lewis Charles Rodd. Her first novel, Tiburon, won the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1935. and further novels saw her develop her social-realist style. However, her work is much more complex than suggested by the term social realism, although she conducted first-hand research to give her novels authenticity, once even spending a week in gaol. Her best known novel is The Battlers (1941) which won the S.H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1940 and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941. Other of her works embrace travel, biography, work for children and dramatic works. In 1980 Kylie Tennant was made AO. She died in 1988.
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