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As Delie Stock clashes with Father Cooley over the St Brandan’s school picnic in Ruth Park’s debut novel The Harp in the South (1948), she…
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…
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…
This essay analyses Ruth Park’s Serpent’s Delight (1962) in transnational, Australian and modern contexts. Though the manifest concern of the novel is whether the visions…
For six decades in the second half of the twentieth century, Ruth Park published her fiction and non-fiction frequently locally, and internationally. Park’s connections with…