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Jessica Gildersleeve, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland

In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

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Michelle Cahill’s Daisy & Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

But who are those mothers? Who are those women who dared to write – and whose voices we have not heard?

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