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To the outside world, Monte Punshon was utterly respectable. But her perfect 19th-century diction disguised her wild past as a bad girl who hung out at edgy Melbourne bars and secret drag parties and was monitored in the lead-up to WWII by security services who suspected her Japanese teacher was a spy.
The ANU's Tessa Morris-Suzuki joins the show to talk about the woman dubbed "the world's oldest lesbian" after coming out at the age of 103.
Get the book at:
https://www.mup.com.au/books/a-secretive-century-paperback-softback
Like the show? Go to heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more.
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By Herald Sun4.8
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To the outside world, Monte Punshon was utterly respectable. But her perfect 19th-century diction disguised her wild past as a bad girl who hung out at edgy Melbourne bars and secret drag parties and was monitored in the lead-up to WWII by security services who suspected her Japanese teacher was a spy.
The ANU's Tessa Morris-Suzuki joins the show to talk about the woman dubbed "the world's oldest lesbian" after coming out at the age of 103.
Get the book at:
https://www.mup.com.au/books/a-secretive-century-paperback-softback
Like the show? Go to heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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