The headless angel of chance

• Main Author: Morgan, Anne T.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia 2008
• Subjects: Figureheads of ships; Fiction; Creative Writing; Antarctic; Antarc*; Macquarie Island
• 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

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