Anne Collett is Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has published widely on postcolonial poetry with particular focus on women’s writing from Australia, Canada and the Caribbean across the 19th to 21st centuries. Most recently, Collett has published in the area of environmental humanities. She edited Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing & culture from 1999-2012 (see https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/).Dorothy Jones is a Senior Honorary Fellow of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She studied at the universities of Otago in New Zealand, Adelaide in Australia, and Oxford in the UK, and has published widely in the area of postcolonial literature with special emphasis on women writers.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter One: Self-Portraits, Painted and WrittenChapter Two: The Artist as a Young Colonial GirlChapter Three: Death of the MotherChapter Four: The Voyage OutChapter Five: Many Roads Meet HereChapter Six: Jack McKinney: the equal heart and mindChapter Eight: Lawren Harris: where the soul penetratesChapter Nine: Shadow Sisters: Kath and SophieChapter Ten: Late Love, Late StyleConclusionEpilogueWorks Cited

This is a fascinating book about two colonial modernist women – an artist/author and a poet – both of whom are long overdue fresh critical assessment. Collett and Jones present a compelling narrative of the way in which the creative endeavours of these two pioneering women influenced the path of artistic modernism in the colonies. The volume is steeped in meticulous scholarship yet written with a deceptively light touch which makes it a pleasure to read.