sentences:  and my naked brown feet kissed the dear earth of my Australia and my soul was pure with love of her".Spender comments on the fact that Langley was criticised at the time for having her heroines in "The Pea-Pickers" and "White Topee" wear trousers, despite the fact that trousers "permitted freedom of movement" and enhanced personal safety by letting a woman "pass as a man".She says