Rose Lindsay : a model life

A$220 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2001. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. x; 380, illustrated, a mint copy, with the original order form and exhibition brochure enclosed. Edition of 1000 copies. Rose Lindsay s memoirs Ma and Pa: My Childhood Memories and Model Wife: My Life with Norman Lindsay were first published in 1963 and 1967 respectively and both are now rare books Here for the first time they are published in one volume, Rose Lindsay: A Model Life. In Ma and Pa, Rose, in effect, writes a history of the Sydney suburb of Longueville during the 1890s and early 1900s. The book is peopled with unforgettable real-life characters and illustrated with Rose s own quirky pen and ink illustrations. Funny and touching, Ma and Pa is the warm-hearted story of one family s life in Sydney, the constant struggle for survival and the resilience of Ma who kept an ever watchful eye on her brood of nine children. Model Wife traces Rose through her early modelling days, her meeting with Norman Lindsay, their life together in Sydney and Springwood and their travels to England and America. Apart from the intimate details of Rose s life with Norman, this book is peppered with the artistic and literary figures of the day: among others Dame Nellie Melba, Anna Pavlova, Fritz Kreisler, Julian Ashton, Elioth Gruner, Hans Heysen, Miles Franklin, H. G. Wells, Fanny Hurst, Edna Ferber and Frank Lloyd Wright. Rose emerged from humble beginnings to become a woman of style and substance with enormous strength of

• Binding: Hardcover

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