The artist Hurtle runs away from an adoptive rich family and later meets the Lolita figure (*) Kathy Volkov in one novel, while the sexually ambiguous titular character becomes Eudoxia, Eddie, and Eadith, those novels are The Vivesector, and The Twyborn Affair.
This author wrote about Ellen Roxburgh surviving the wreck of the Bristol Maid in Fringe of Leaves. Felicity Bannister breaks off her engagement to John Galbraith after an ambiguous rape in The Night the Prowler, collected in this author's The Cockatoos. Katina Pavlou and Alyosha Sergei Sokolnikov meet the title character in a French hotel in a story which chronicles Theodora Goodman's descent into madness, The Aunt's Story. The artist Hurtle runs away from an adoptive rich family and later meets the Lolita figure (*) Kathy Volkov in one novel, while the sexually ambiguous titular character becomes Eudoxia, Eddie, and Eadith, those novels are The Vivesector, and The Twyborn Affair. For 10 points, name this Australian author who used Ludwig Leichhardt as the basis for his novel about an explorer of the Outback, Voss.
This author wrote about Ellen Roxburgh surviving the wreck of the Bristol Maid in Fringe of Leaves.
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