Biographical writing

'Facts are stubborn things', writes Denton Prout on p. 201 of Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer, 'and it is a biographer's duty to reveal…

Elliott reports a discovery about Gordon's time in the Mounted Police.

In a recent article1 Mr Cecil Hadgraft (Australian Literary Studies, vol. 2, no. 3) uses the nineteenth century novelist Charles Rowcroft to exemplify…

If ever there was a hard nut for a biographer to crack, it is Richard Henry (or should it be Hengist?) Home. There must have…

....I am a middle age fourth generation of the Gilmore's and herewith are some main points on the family.

A short memoir about Mary Gilmore in her later years.

I approached the latest Neilson biography: Poet of the Colours, by John H. Phillips with both hope and trepidation. Hope faded as I scanned…

The biographer of Henry Kingsley begins with a dilemma, more marked if he is an Australian writer. We all recognize that Kingsley is an English…

Compares Johnston's presentation of the circumstances of his life in the Meredith Trilogy with Kinnane's biography of Johnston.

When it was known that another study of Louisa Lawson was to be published, there was a small flurry of expectation, especially amongst feminist historians…

Patrick White: A Life, by David Marr, is up there on shelves all around the country, sitting alongside Poor Fellow, My Country. Or…

H.P. Heseltine discusses his memories of the writer Dal Stivens.

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…

Munro clearly states that his approach is chronological and that he has not aimed at 'a psychological or experimental biography'. He is the first to…