sentences:  Eve Langley was not the only Australian writer to create a female character who dresses as a man.It was also done by Joseph Furphy in his "Such is Life" (1903), Jessie Couvreur, who wrote as Tasma in her short story "Monsieur Caloche" (1889), Marie Bjelke Petersen in "Jewelled Nights" (1923) and, after Langley, Kylie Tennant in her "The Honey Flow" (1956).The main theme of the book relates to Steve's being "caught between her emotional need for love (and expressing her sexuality), and her intellectual craving for freedom, independence and the life of art as expressed in music and poetry", a freedom, she feels she can best achieve by taking on the name and dress of a man.