Cecil Hadgraft

Review of Springtime in Taranaki: An Autobiography of Youth by Douglas Stewart

If a man throws a brick through your window, wrote an English critic some years ago then you are entitled to sally forth and discover…

1 May 1985

Cecil Hadgraft

Review of 'John O'Brien' and the Boree Log by Frank Mecham

This book contains so many ingredients that it is very hard to review in a limited space. It is, primarily, a biography of Father Patrick…

1 October 1982

Cecil Hadgraft

Review of Frank Dalby Davison by Louise E. Rorabacher and Eleanor Dark by A. Grove Day

Twayne's World Authors Scries, now well established and widely known, covers authors of varying importance. Any critic motivated by interest and the consciousness of labour…

1 October 1980

Cecil Hadgraft

Review of The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sydney by Ann-Mari Jordens

Some readers may find that this carefully researched volume confirms views they already hold; others may find it provocative, challenging them by the information it…

1 May 1980

Cecil Hadgraft

Correspondence

Hadgraft responds to Semmler's letter in ALS Vol. 7, no. 4 (May 1976).

1 October 1976

Cecil Hadgraft

The Whirligig and Furphy

Every new book on Shakespeare, said a critic (Stoll?), falls into two parts: the first part is always good—that is where the author demolishes previous…

1 May 1976

Cecil Hadgraft

Review of Douglas Stewart by Clement Semmler and Vance and Nettie Palmer by Vivian Smith

These two so different books stand an old adage on its head. Easy writing said Byron, makes damned hard reading. Semmler makes a reader feel…

1 October 1975

Cecil Hadgraft

Review of books by Brenda Niall, Harry Heseltine, Mary Lord and R.G. Geering

Hadgraft reviews the following monographs:

Martin Boyd by Brenda Niall (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1974).

Xavier Herbert by Harry Heseltine (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973).

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1 October 1974

Cecil Hadgraft

Review of Norman Lindsay: The Embattled Olympian by John Hetherington

Hetherington has been given a free hand; he depicts a complex and often exasperating man; and he does not shrink from anecdotes or odd traits…

1 May 1974

Cecil Hadgraft

More Substance to Fisher’s Ghost?

Hadgraft and Webby account for the legend of Fisher's Ghost, which has its origins in the murder of farmer Frederick Fisher in Campbell Town on…

1 May 1968

Cecil Hadgraft

Charles Rowcroft, For Example

Discusses factual errors in previously published literary histories, biographies and bibliographies. Hadgraft also reveals his own methods and experience in collecting biographical data on Rowcroft.

1 June 1966

Cecil Hadgraft

In Quest of a Quaker: A Note on Henry Savery’s Nom de Plume

The convict-author Henry Savery (1791-1842) is known as the writer of the first Australian novel, Qtiintus Servinton (1830-1). He was, in addition, our first essayist…

1 June 1963