Rosa Praed
Articles
- The Surrender to Truth in The Early Australian Novel
Hamer provides a survey of early Australian novels by writers including Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, Ada Cambridge, and Charles de Boos. The essay tracks the…
1 December 1965 - Shrouded Histories: Outlaw and Lawmaker, Republican Politics and Women’s Interests
This essay reads the novel of expatriate colonial writer Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), as an intervention in the public debate about the Irish…
1 May 2003 - Review of Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed by Raymond Beilby and Cecil Hadgraft
The combined output of these three writers was about seventy-five books, not to mention individual stories, articles and journalism. The authors have done remarkably well…
1 May 1980 - The Anglo-Australian: Between Colony and Metropolis in Rosa Praed’s ‘The Right Honourable’ and Policy and Passion
"'The Right Honourable' exemplifies the transnational nature of Praed's work and career: it is set largely in London, with Australian and English characters…
1 May 2012 - Review of books by Debra Adelaide, Helen Daniel, Chris Tiffin, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman
Review of the following volumes:
Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide, by Debra Adelaide. Sydney: Pandora, 1988.
The Good Reading Guide: 100 Critics Review…
1 May 1990 - ‘My Little Ghost-Slave’: The Queer Lives of Rosa Praed
Feminist re-readings and literary excavations of Praed's corpus and life have elided, or simply failed to consider worthy of analysis, her occult novels and beliefs…
1 October 1996 - Review of Rosa! Rosa!: A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist, by Patricia Clarke
Rosa Praed is a significant figure in nineteenth-century Australian literature. With voluminous output and a substantial place in English literary society at a time when…
1 May 2001 - Unknown Australia: Rosa Praed’s Vanished Race
Examines the presentation of colonialism in some of Praed’s work, in particular in her novel Fugitive Anne with its fantasy of the lost Lemurians.
1 May 2005 - Preying on the Past: Contexts of Some Recent Neo-Historical Fiction
Discusses the 'revisionist' historical fiction of, among others, Rodney Hall, David Malouf and Robert Drewe, in the context of Australian historical fiction from its origins…
1 October 1992 - ‘Our Literary Connexion’: Rosa Praed and George Bentley
This essay examines Rosa Praed’s communication ‘through letters, agreements, publisher’s ledgers, and memoirs of her dealings with one of her early publishers, George Bentley of…
1 October 2012 - Rosa Praed’s Colonial Heroines
Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in…
1 May 1981 - Meta-Medievalism and the Future of the Past in the ‘Australian Girl’ Novel
‘Through an examination of works by four late nineteenth-century women writers … which explores their differing intersections with medievalism as a temporal discourse, this essay…
1 October 2011 - Irish-Australian Literature: Ghosts, Genealogy, Tradition
Opening with Christos Tsiolkas’s critique of multiculturalism, this essay considers the theory and practice of Irish-Australian literature in relation to questions of ethnicity and transnationalism…
30 September 2021 - Irish Republicanism and the Colonial Australian Bushranger Narrative
This article examines a range of colonial Australian Irish bushranger narratives in terms of their investments in revolutionary republicanism arguing that these become increasingly contested…
30 September 2021
Contributors
- Damien Barlow
- Louise D'Arcens
- Kay Ferres
- Paul Giles
- Ken Gelder
- Clive Hamer
- Julieanne Lamond
- Andrew McCann
- Peter Pierce
- Michael Sharkey
- Chris Tiffin
- Chris Tiffin
- Chris Tiffin
- Gillian Whitlock
- Rachael Weaver