Friday, October 18, 2019
Clerihew for Dear Letty
CHRISTINA STEAD
Perhaps too long abed,
The late Christina Stead
Left the censors thunderstruck
By the sex in Letty Fox: Her Luck.*
*The book was once considered low
For all the men she gave a go,
Though no reader now would so be struck.
(Pray note the obvious rhyme I duck.)
Labels:
Australia,
banned books,
Christina Stead,
classics,
clerihews,
Feminism,
Letty Fox Her Luck,
novelists,
sex
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