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…
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…
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 - Olivia and Chloe: Fictions of Female Friendship
In the Australian context, where the theme of male friendship, expressed through the myth of mateship, has gathered so much literary and cultural significance, it…
1 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…
1 October 2005