Articles
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‘A Window of Life’: Essays on Ruth Park
3 October 2024
Neo-Victorian Approaches to the Colonial Past in Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow
Fantasy narratives for young people that represented Australia’s history, prior to, and after white settlement, initially depicted alternative pasts in which the land was populated…
3 October 2024
Traps of womanhood: Reproductive coercion in Ruth Park’s Harp in the South (1948) and The Witch’s Thorn (1951)
The Harp in the South, Park’s best known novel set in Sydney’s Surry Hills, and the lesser-known The Witch’s Thorn, set in a…
3 October 2024
Bridging Distances: Ruth Park’s A Power of Roses (1953)
Ruth Park’s A Power of Roses (1953) focuses on the inhabitants of a boarding house in Sydney’s inner suburb, The Rocks, a diverse community largely…
3 October 2024
When the Drums Went Bang: Ruth Park’s ‘Truth in There Somewhere’
The paper considers Ruth Park’s memoirs by reflecting on three autobiographical texts: a lengthy article in the Sydney Morning Herald (1946); her first memoir The…
3 October 2024