Frank Moorhouse by Catharine Lumby

Author:Catharine Lumby [Catharine Lumby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2023-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

Towards the end of Grand Days, Edith Campbell Berry agrees to marry Robert Dole, an English journalist. One evening they are discussing their life plans when Robert announces that, after they are wed, Edith will no longer be Australian: ‘You’ll be British, legally speaking.’

Edith replies: ‘In the eyes of the League I will always be Australian.’

As she said this, she thought of how she’d once hoped to become an Internationalist and to shed her nationality. She’d had some notion that one day the Council would call her up and declare her International and relieve her of being Australian. Now she was assuming the burden of two nationalities.

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