Authorship
Articles
- The Structure of Frederic Manning’s War Novel Her Privates We
No one seems to have made a detailed critical analysis of the work as a novel, although it was conveniently labelled one of the finest…
1 October 1974 - The Australian Career of John Lang, Novelist
John Lang, the first Australian-born novelist, has been the subject of recent articles by Dr Colin Roderick and Mr John Earnshaw. The aim of this…
1 June 1964 - The Hibernian Father: Mysteries Solved and Unsolved
Oppenheim discusses the authorship and origins of the play The Hiberian Father, focusing on its similarities to an earlier Irish play, The Warden of…
1 June 1967 - Anna Maria Murray, Authoress of The Guardian
Wilson discovers and provides a biographical sketch of Anna Maria Murray (1808-1889), the heretofore unknown author of The Guardian: A Tale, the first novel…
1 October 1967 - More Substance to Fisher’s Ghost?
Hadgraft and Webby account for the legend of Fisher's Ghost, which has its origins in the murder of farmer Frederick Fisher in Campbell Town on…
1 May 1968 - ‘Where the Dead Men Lie’
Introduces a newly-found manuscript of Boake’s most famous poem which differs from a later printed version.
1 May 2006 - Colonial ‘Australian’ Theatre Writers: Cultural Authorship and the Case of Marcus Clarke’s ‘First’ Play
Founded in the wake of the industrial revolution, Australia as a series of six British colonies was meshed into the global commercial popular entertainment industry…
1 May 1997 - The Crows Kept Flyin’ up : Old Bush Song or Mary Gilmore Ballad?1 May 1981
- One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal literature’, 1973-1983
In 1983, a decade after the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts Board (AAB), the Australia Council published a report that presented two competing accounts of…
5 May 2016 - Since 1964 ...
Memoir essay looking back on Keneally's career and shifts in the Australian literary landscape. Keneally concludes: 'if I were given the chance to make a…
30 May 2015 - Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012
I met Tom in his favourite café in Manly. Our conversation was punctuated by effusive greetings to and from passers by, with chat about the…
30 May 2015
Contributors
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Holger Klein
- Veronica Kelly
- Michelle Kelly
- Thomas Keneally
- Helen Oppenheim
- S. J. Routh
- W. F. Refshauge
- Tim Rowse
- Paul Sharrad
- Gwendoline Wilson
- Elizabeth Webby
- W. H. Wilde