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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

by Miles FRANKLIN (1879 - 1954)

Grandma turns nurse

It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, the fight isn't entirely won, for the male residents are bristling at this threat to their supremacy. And down at Clay's there are other problems too: Dawn is now a young woman and in these days of slender chances Grandma Clay must keep an eye on the marriage market. But Dawn, lively and outspoken wants a career on the stage. - Summary by Trove - National Library of Australia

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Listen next episodes of Some Everyday Folk and Dawn:
Advance Australia! , Alas! How easily things go wrong! , Alas! Miss Flip! , An opportunely inopportune douche , Andrew disgraces his rarin' , For further particulars consult 'The Noonoon Advertiser' of that date. , Let there be love , Little odds and ends of life , Love's young dream , Mrs Bray and Carry come to issues , O Spirit, and the nine angels who watch us... , Off with the old , One might think better of marriage if one's married friends... , Provincial politics and semi-suburban dentists , Some sideplay , The foundation of the poultry industry , The knight has a stolen view of the lady , The passing of the trains , The savage sells or exchanges his daughter, but in... , Things go more wrong , Universal adult sufferage , Various events