Authorship
Articles
- The Structure of Frederic Manning’s War Novel Her Privates We
No one seems to have made a detailed critical analysis of the work as a novel, although it was conveniently labelled one of the finest…
1 October 1974 - The Australian Career of John Lang, Novelist
John Lang, the first Australian-born novelist, has been the subject of recent articles by Dr Colin Roderick and Mr John Earnshaw. The aim of this…
1 June 1964 - The Hibernian Father: Mysteries Solved and Unsolved
Oppenheim discusses the authorship and origins of the play The Hiberian Father, focusing on its similarities to an earlier Irish play, The Warden of…
1 June 1967 - Anna Maria Murray, Authoress of The Guardian
Wilson discovers and provides a biographical sketch of Anna Maria Murray (1808-1889), the heretofore unknown author of The Guardian: A Tale, the first novel…
1 October 1967 - 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 - ‘Where the Dead Men Lie’
Introduces a newly-found manuscript of Boake’s most famous poem which differs from a later printed version.
1 May 2006 - Colonial ‘Australian’ Theatre Writers: Cultural Authorship and the Case of Marcus Clarke’s ‘First’ Play
Founded in the wake of the industrial revolution, Australia as a series of six British colonies was meshed into the global commercial popular entertainment industry…
1 May 1997 - 'The Crows Kept Flyin’ Up': Old Bush Song or Mary Gilmore Ballad?
Examines the origins of the ballad 'The Crows Kept Flyin' Up', claimed by Henry Lawson to be an 'old bush song' but likely written by…
1 May 1981 - One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal literature’, 1973-1983
In 1983, a decade after the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts Board (AAB), the Australia Council published a report that presented two competing accounts of…
5 May 2016 - Since 1964 ...
Memoir essay looking back on Keneally's career and shifts in the Australian literary landscape. Keneally concludes: 'if I were given the chance to make a…
30 May 2015 - Interview with Thomas Keneally, Manly, 27 June 2012
I met Tom in his favourite café in Manly. Our conversation was punctuated by effusive greetings to and from passers by, with chat about the…
30 May 2015 - Authorial Editing, Retrospective Reading and Short Story Publishing: New Approaches to Christos Tsiolkas
This essay examines Christos Tsiolkas’s short stories. Tsiolkas’s stories are less widely known compared to his novels and often unsettle the view of his writing…
28 October 2021
Contributors
- Mark Azzopardi
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Holger Klein
- Veronica Kelly
- Michelle Kelly
- Thomas Keneally
- Helen Oppenheim
- S. J. Routh
- W. F. Refshauge
- Tim Rowse
- Paul Sharrad
- Gwendoline Wilson
- Elizabeth Webby
- W. H. Wilde