Fallen Among Reformers

<p style=margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 255 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>'Fallen Among Reformers' focuses on Stella Miles Franklin's New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women's Trade Union League (1906-1915). This time away from literary pursuits enriched Franklin's literary productivity and provided a feminist social justice ethics which shaped her writing.</p><p style=margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 255 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Close readings of Franklin's (mostly unpublished) short stories plays and novels contextualises them in the personal politics of her everyday life and historicises them in the socio-economic and literary realities of early twentieth-century Australia and United States: themes embedded in broader cultural patterns of socialism pacifism and feminism.</p>