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Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South (1948) and its sequel, Poor Man’s Orange (1949), famously deal with the Irish denizens of Sydney’s Surry Hills…
For six decades in the second half of the twentieth century, Ruth Park published her fiction and non-fiction frequently locally, and internationally. Park’s connections with…
This special issue applies nuanced critical attention to a number of Australian disabled authors, and representations of disabled people, in Australian literature throughout the twentieth…
In 1998 Michelle Grossman’s overview of Indigenous women’s writing explored the significant contribution that life writing had made to the country’s literatures and pondered where…
This essay offers new insights into Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934) and in particular its celebrated ‘lecture on light.’ It illuminates the…