Eleanor Dark

In 1945 Eleanor Dark published The Little Company; two years later Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Both were written during…

Among the many historical novels written in Australia during the thirties and forties, The Timeless Land is unique for the way it foregrounds the journals…

This paper analyses a single aspect of Australian literary culture in a particular historical period, namely its interest in 'greatness' - great books and great…

‘In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Dark’s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as ‘a terribly beautiful piece of work’ (128). One of Dark’s earliest…

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'…

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…

This essay uses the interwar writing of Eleanor Dark to destabilise the binary between nationalist-realism and experimental modernism in accounts of Australian literature. Dark’s novels…

Locating Australian Literary Memory begins with a typically pithy quotation from Miles Franklin about its subject matter: ‘Such monuments alas, too often are a saving…