Autobiographies
Articles
- Dramatising the Self: Beverley Farmer’s Fiction
There is a clear autobiographical dimension to Beverley Farmer's fiction: her own life and experience provide the material that goes into her writing, and the…
1 October 1995 - Creative Acts: Archives, Artifacts and Australian Women’s Autobiographies
Analyses in detail donations made under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme to the National Library of Australia by Morgan, Modjeska and Hewett.
1 May 1996 - Ada Cambridge and the First Thirty Years
Ada Cambridge is now well-known for her 'autobiography' and delightful collection of memoirs, Thirty Years in Australia (London: Methuen, 1903). What is not well-known is…
1 May 1990 - The Scent of Eucalyptus: Gothic Autobiography
Discusses Barbara Hanrahan's The Scent of Eucalyptus as 'autobiographical fiction', describing this genre as allowing for 'greater scope and range', and increased openness to 'the…
1 May 1990 - ‘Not a Good Forgetter’: H.H. Richardson’s Recasting of the Past in Myself When Young
Examines the relationship between autobiographical truths and 'fictional embroidering' in Richardson's autobiography in terms of its representation of familial relationships, arguing that the work is…
1 May 1998 - Review of Helen Garner, by Kerryn Goldsworthy, Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, edited by Gerry Turcotte, and Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography, by Anne Brewster
Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of fourteen Australian writers, five female and nine male, including…
1 May 1998 - Body in the Vault: The Unpublished Novels of Eve Langley
Within the Mitchell Library inside the State Library of New South Wales lie the manuscripts of ten novels submitted by Eve Langley to Angus &…
1 May 1993 - The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography: Ruby Langford’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town
A sense of 'who I was' issues from the record of the life; it does not precede and shape that record. Langford's need to articulate…
1 May 1993 - Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women’s Fiction: My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom
Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…
1 October 1983 - Self-Propagation and Self-Dissolution: The Paradox of Patrick White’s Flaws in the Glass
Gregory Graham-Smith’s aim in this article ‘is to examine the way in which Patrick White’s acts of self-inscription in *Flaws in the Glass*, despite being…
1 October 2013 - The Twyborn Affair: Beyond ‘the Human Hierarchy of Men and Women’
David Marr's monumental biography of Patrick White invites a rereading of White's novels. Marr, like any good biographer intent on revealing the life rather than…
1 May 1994 - A.B. Facey’s Australian Autobiography
Argues that Facey’s autobiography shows ‘just how persuasive the art of understatement is … in the writing of this ordinary Australian, addressing the larger issues…
1 May 1987 - Review of This Crazy Thing a Life: Australian Jewish Autobiography, by Richard Freadman
In 'Last Walk in Naryshkin Park', Rose Zwi writes of her attempt to find the park in Lithuania where her parents had once strolled when…
1 October 2010 - ‘The Craft So Long to Learn’: Ruth Park’s Story of Ruth Park
It is tempting, but upon reflection not quite accurate, to describe Ruth Park's autobiography as a Künstlerroman, that subtype of Bildungsroman which has been…
1 May 1996 - Recent Australian Autobiography: A Review Essay
In the Epilogue to Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 (1990) Dorothy Hewett returns to her 'first house', the house of childhood at Lambton Downs. The…
1 October 1992 - Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip: The Construction of an Author and Her Work
The gloves are off, it might seem, when a male critic declares that the latest prize-winning woman author 'talks dirty and passes it off as…
1 October 1992 - The Getting of Wisdom : Not ‘Merry’ at All
McFarlane challenges Richardson’s assertion that The Getting of Wisdom is a “merry little book” by revealing the bleakness of the narrative in several key scenes…
1 May 1977 - Last Flight to Byzantium: Memoirs of Many in One
The nature of art and reality and their relation to each other has always been a major preoccupation of artists and acquired a new intensity…
1 June 1991
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- Rosamund Dalziell
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- Susan Lever
- Christine McPaul
- Brian McFarlane
- Hena Maes-Jelinek
- Xavier Pons
- Tim Rowse
- Alrene Sykes
- Louise Wakeling
- Chris Watson
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