Australian Literary Studies articles from May 1998

Australian Literary Studies archives from May 1998

Building an Archive: The H.H. Richardson Papers in the National Library of Australia.
May 1, 1998... Rather than offer an oral catalogue of the National Library's holdings on Henry Handel Richardson (a revised guide has recently been issued),(1) I thought it might be more interesting to describe briefly the process whereby the Library built up...

Walter and Mary Richardson's Letters and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.
May 1, 1998... On 27 May 1887, Richardson had written in an exercise book she was using as a diary, now also among the Richardson Papers in the National Library: `Read a lot of Father's and Mother's letters. It is like reading a love story of 30 years ago. I...

`Not a Good Forgetter': H.H. Richardson's Recasting of the Past in Myself When Young.
May 1, 1998... No, wrote Ettie to Mary Kernot in one of the major understatements of their long correspondence, `I am not a good forgetter'. The case in point was an unpleasant school-fellow from their days at PLC (Presbyterian Ladies' College), though...

`Distant Voices, Still Lives': The Correspondence between H.H. Richardson and Her French Translator, Paul Solanges.
May 1, 1998... Mr Nicholls was... aware of the kinds of particulars which people would look for; and saw how they snatched at every gossiping account of her, and how desirable it was to have a full and authorized history of her life if it were done at all....

A Neglected Interview between Henry Handel Richardson and Brian Penton, 1931-33.
May 1, 1998... 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....

Henry Handel Richardson Fifty Years on.
May 1, 1998... 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 in the half century since she died, makes me feel that in one basic way the question answers itself....

Michael Wilding's Three Centres of Value.
May 1, 1998... Michael Wilding's `Canal Run', a story from The West Midland Underground (1975), fuses two of his powerful early influences, D.H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. In so doing it introduces a number of themes which come to typify his creative...

After Libertarianism: An Interview with Michael Wilding.(Interview)
May 1, 1998... IS: Could you tell me about your life prior to your coming to Australia? MW: I was born in Worcester in the English west midlands in 1942. My father was an iron moulder. His father was an iron moulder and his father before him. A skilled...

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 1997.
May 1, 1998... This is the thirty-fifth annual bibliography to be published in Australian Literary Studies. Primarily devoted to substantial commentaries useful to criticism and scholarship, the series aims to provide as complete a listing as possible of...

The Oxford Book of Australian Essays.(Review)
May 1, 1998... The Oxford Book of Australian Essays, edited by Imre Salusinszky. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hardback, $39.95. George Cowling, who infamously remarked that no-one would need a Baedecker to conduct a literary pilgrimage...

Bodyjamming: Sexual Harassment, Feminism and Public Life.(Review)
May 1, 1998... Bodyjamming: Sexual Harassment, Feminism and Public Life, edited by Jenna Mead. Milsons Point, NSW: Viking/Random House, 1997. Paper $19.95. It's now over two years since Helen Garner's The First Stone was published, producing widespread...

Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism.(Review)
May 1, 1998... Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism, by Mark Davis. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997. Paper, $16.95. It's a long time since I read a book by torch-light, but Mark Davis's Gangland drove me to just such lengths the...

Helen Garner.(Review)
May 1, 1998... Helen Garner, by Kerryn Goldsworthy. Oxford Australian Writers. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Paper $19.95. Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of fourteen...

Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones.(Review)
May 1, 1998... Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, edited by Gerry Turcotte. Wollongong: CRITACS, 1996. Paper $19.95. Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of...

Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography.(Review)
May 1, 1998... Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography, by Anne Brewster. Horizon Studies in Literature. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1996. Paper $10.95. Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary...

Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction.
May 1, 1998... Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction, by Stephen Knight. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997. Paper, $24.95. The last decade has seen an expansion of interest in Australian popular fiction, with work...