Biographies

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.

Literary biography has both its friends and its enemies. Readers of the genre may be fans of particular authors, or may be addicted to literary…

Biography—life-writing—is a popular form these days. Ian Britain editorialised in Meanjin that in many cases it sells rather better than the average novel does. Why…

The research evidenced in Frank Molloy's Victor J. Daley (A Life) is of the kind which exists at the heart of contemporary Irish-Australian Studies, and…

There are intriguing similarities between the lives of Sumner Locke Elliott and Louis Esson. Both felt themselves pioneers in particularly philistine, early twentieth-century provincial culture…

Francis Adams lived the sort of life that cries out for a biography. Born in Malta, a son of the regiment, he spent his youth…

As so much of the discussion about Australian culture, in literary and allied fields, is now coming through the medium of biography, this latest parcel…

Elizabeth Perkins away peacefully at the Wesley Park Haven Hospital in Townsville on 17 February 2004. She suffered from arthritis and bronchitis, complaints that she…

Axel Clark has produced an impressively thorough work of scholarship in this first full length biography of Christopher Brennan. sifting judiciously through the mass of…

Literary biography has emerged in the last ten years as one of the exciting and enduring strengths of Australian scholarship, with support from both major…

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…

Scholars of Australian literature are more likely than most to recognise the name Ida Leeson and to connect it to that venerable institution, Sydney's Mitchell…

Writing a biography is a tricky business. Perhaps most tricky, however, is to decide where you stand on the one hand to your subject and…

Biographies of writers have maintained their popularity for many years, both here and overseas, a fact sometimes attributed to the chance they give 'busy people'…

Hamilton-Grey, who published three books on Henry Kendall in the 1920s, has remained a little-known figure in Australian literary history, although her biographies of Kendall…

Literary reputations and standing tend to follow erratic courses worthy of the sharemarket. Even blue chip stock, like Lawson and White, can plumb the depths…

In the introduction to this book, Cassandra Pybus disarmingly exhibits her qualifications for sounding off about James McAuley's heart and mind, and for imagining how…

Arthur Hoey Davis, a diffident twenty-six-year-old clerk, invented 'Steele Rudd' in 1894 as the nom de plume for a rowing column. The pseudonym grew, like…

This is a fascinating subject for a biography. Thomas Browne was author of one of the best-known Australian novels of the nineteenth century, Robbery under…

Hazel Rowley's biography of Christina Stead has generated very divergent responses in its early reviews. Michael Wilding in the Australian Book Review (152, July 1993)…