A Secretive Century - Signed Tessa Morris-Suzuki | MUP 2024 | First Edition

Key Details:

• Title: A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia
• Author: Tessa Morris-Suzuki
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition
• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• Genre/Category: Australian history / Biography / Gender & cultural studies
• ISBN: 9780522879940

About:

A Secretive Century is an imaginative and deeply researched biography exploring the life of Monte Punshon — a woman who lived across identities in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia. Moving through theatre, radio, bohemian culture, and queer subcultures, the book illuminates hidden histories and the complex social worlds that shaped modern Australia.

Written by leading historian Tessa Morris-Suzuki, this work blends archival research with narrative insight to reveal the silences, disguises, and freedoms negotiated by women whose lives defied easy categorisation. It is a significant contribution to Australian social history, gender history, and cultural studies.

This copy is signed and warmly inscribed by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, dated June 2024, making it particularly appealing to collectors of contemporary Australian history and academic signed editions.

Condition:

Condition: Good – see detailed notes below.
• Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page
• Pages clean and bright with no highlighting
• Binding firm and intact
• Light handling wear consistent with careful use
• Minor cosmetic marks to interior pages, as pictured

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