Correspondence
Articles
- Challenging the Editing of the Rachel Henning Letters
From Exmoor Station in North Queensland in 1862 Rachel Henning composed a letter to her sister--'My dearest Etta'. She wrote of an incident the previous…
1 October 1994 - ‘Damned Scamp’: Marcus Clarke or James Erskine Calder?
James Erskine Calder's brief correspondence with Sir George Grey, noticed by Bruce Ncsbitt in an earlier issue of Australian Literary Studies, consists of half…
1 October 1974 - Review of Henry Lawson, Letters 1890-1922 edited by Colin Roderick
Probably nobody in the world knows more about Henry Lawson than Professor Roderick. In recent years he has given us his three volume edition of…
1 May 1971 - Some Mary Gilmore Letters
A collection of letters from Mary Gilmore to I.M. Foster
1 October 1972 - Kendall’s Views on Contemporary Writers : A Survey of His Correspondence
Donovan examines Kendall’s letters in relation to the poet’s critical views of himself and of some of his Australian and English contemporaries.
1 June 1964 - Shaw Neilson and Mary Gilmore
This letter from Neilson to Miss I. M. Foster (the original is in the Archives of the Public Library of South Australia) is printed with…
1 October 1972 - Of Sages and Sybils: Alec Hope and Judith Wright
The article charts the friendship between Hope and Wright and the critical responses of the two poets to each other’s work and achievements.
1 May 2009 - Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Marcus Clarke
Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life is one of the best and has proved one of the most enduringly popular of all…
1 May 1984 - Review of Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters, edited by Clive Probyn and Bruce Steele, with Rachel Solomon and Patrick O'Neill
Literary embargo is one of the banes of most researchers. Who has not had a promising track of inquiry suddenly blocked by the familiar catalogue…
1 May 2002 - Review of My Congenials: Miles Franklin & Friends in Letters, edited by Jill Roe.
I am acquainted with at least one writer who believes that letter-writing saps creative energy which might be directed to the more public art forms…
1 May 1995 - Jack Lindsay, P.R. Stephensen and the Publication of D.H. Lawrence’s Paintings
In his perceptive review1 of Jack Lindsay's Decay and Renewal and Noel Macainsh's Nietzsche in Australia, Brian Kiernan refers in passing to the dispute between…
1 October 1979 - Henry Handel Richardson Fifty Years On
Having been asked to speak at a Henry Handel Richardson seminar, on the particular question of developments in the study of her life and work…
1 May 1998 - ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’: The Correspondence Between H.H. Richardson and Her French Translator, Paul Solanges
Discusses Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence with the French translator of Maurice Guest, outlining major points of interest.
1 May 1998 - Building an Archive: The H.H. Richardson Papers in the National Library of Australia
Discusses the 'process whereby the Library built up its Richardson collections [the only surviving papers directly assembled and kept by Richardson during her lifetime] over…
1 May 1998 - The D.H. Lawrence - P.R. Stephensen Letters
Includes a collection of letters between Lawrence and ‘Inky’ Stephensen - most of which have never been published before or been available to scholars -…
1 May 1984 - Life-Lines in Stormy Seas: Some Recent Collections of Women’s Diaries and Letters
In the history of women's writing in Australia, 1992 may well earn the title of the year of the letters, given the coincidental publication of…
1 May 1993 - Lawrence of Arabia and H.H. Richardson
Discusses letters between Henry Handel Richardson, her publisher Jacob Schwartz and T.E. Lawrence, and Richardson's response to Lawrence's critique of her work.
1 May 1983 - A Christina Stead Letter
Includes the text of a letter Christina Stead written to her stepmother Thistle Stead in 1942 regarding her novel The Man Who Loved Children (1940).
1 October 1987 - Walter and Mary Richardson’s Letters and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Discusses the influence Richardson's reading of her parents' romantic letters may have had on the composition of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
1 May 1998 - Some Henry Lawson Letters to Edward Garnett
Over the last few years a considerable amount has been added to knowledge of Henry Lawson's life, including his brief but important period in England…
1 May 1985
Contributors
- Anne Allingham
- Michael Ackland
- John Arnold
- Ruth Blair
- Rudolf Bader
- Donovan Clarke
- Anne Collett
- Axel Clark
- P. D. Edwards
- Mary Gilmore
- Harry Payne Heseltine
- Joy W. Hooton
- Bernard Hickey
- Susan Lever
- Craig Munro
- John Shaw Neilson
- Joan Poole
- Graeme Powell
- Anita Kristina Segerberg
- Elizabeth Webby