Commonwealth Literary Fund
Articles
- The Support of Literature in Colonial Australia
Stewart discusses the economic condition and patronage of writers and the literary marketplace in colonial Australia, focusing particularly on the tropes of the 'Neglected Writer'…
1 October 1980 - A Paperback Canon: The Australian Pocket Library
Details the development and production of the Australian Pocket Library, arguing that scrutiny of the Library allows for 'understanding the evolution of Australian cultural values'…
1 May 2000 - Commonwealth Patronage for a Patron’s Daughters
The files of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in the Australian Archives. Canberra provide a wealth of biographical information on the literary men and women who…
1 October 1982 - Australian Literary Studies in the 1940s: The Commonwealth Literary Fund Lectures
Probably the best-known story about the Commonwealth Literary Fund lectures concerns J.I.M. Stewart, professor of English at the University of Adelaide. Geoffrey Dutton remembers that…
1 November 2015