The headless angel of chance
This submission for a PhD in Writing comprises a novel, ‘The Headless Angel of Chance’ and an accompanying essay, ‘Reflections on the Headless Lady.’ The genesis of my research project lies in the true-life discovery of a ship's figurehead - a headless carving of a woman in flowing robes - on s...
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Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia
2008
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| Online Access: | https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/172 https://ro.ecu.edu.au/context/theses/article/1172/viewcontent/The_20headless_20angel_20of_20chance.pdf |
| Summary: | This submission for a PhD in Writing comprises a novel, ‘The Headless Angel of Chance’ and an accompanying essay, ‘Reflections on the Headless Lady.’ The genesis of my research project lies in the true-life discovery of a ship's figurehead - a headless carving of a woman in flowing robes - on subantarctic Macquarie Island in 1973. Washed ashore in bay where there had been no known shipwrecks, successive parties of men from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) engaged in a series of epic missions to salvage the figurehead |
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