Friends & friendship
Articles
- Friendship in a Time of Loneliness
The essay ‘explores the ways in which Jolley’s fictions are simultaneously motivated by a longing for consummate love - (hetero)sexual, intellectual, spiritual, all at once - and shaped by a gathering understanding of the impossibility of that desire as a…
1 May 2009 - 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 - A Neglected Interview between Henry Handel Richardson and Brian Penton, 1931-1933
When Henry Handel Richardson died in March 1946 the first and certainly the most substantial Australian obituary was a two-page, illustrated essay in the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 30 March, written by the Editor of the paper, Brian Penton. Almost…
1 May 1998 - ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’: The Correspondence Between H.H. Richardson and Her French Translator, Paul Solanges
Until recently, access to Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence has been restricted. Dorothy Green had read the correspondence between Richardson and her French translator Paul Solanges by the time she prepared the revised edition of her literary biography of Richardson, Ulysses…
1 May 1998 - Olivia and Chloe : Fictions of Female Friendship1 May 1989
- Under the Influence? Adam McCay: Journalist, Poet, Letter Writer and Influential Friend
Discusses the friendships between McCay and Slessor and McCay and the Lindsays and examines McCay’s occasional verse. Includes reference to the influence of Adam McCay on Norman Lindsay.
1 October 2005