Katharine Susannah Prichard
Articles
- Some Major Themes in the Novels of Katharine Susannah Prichard
A passionate love of the land and of the people who live close to the soil is the source of Katharine Susannah Prichard's writing. Like…
1 June 1963 - Authors, Editors, Publishers: Katharine Susannah Prichard and W. W. Norton
P.R. Stephensen observed that: ‘Americans are interested in us’ and instances of this interest on the part of writers, readers and publishers abound, stretching as…
1 October 2006 - Review of Straight Left by Katharine Susannah Prichard An Introduction to Australian Literature ed. C.D. Narasimhaiah, and A Common Wealth of Words ed. Maureen Freer and Ken Goodwin
Straight Left, a collection of Katharine Susannah Prichard's articles and addresses on politics, literature and women's affairs, collected by her son Ric Throssell, spans…
1 October 1983 - Life-Lines in Stormy Seas: Some Recent Collections of Women’s Diaries and Letters
In the history of women's writing in Australia, 1992 may well earn the title of the year of the letters, given the coincidental publication of…
1 May 1993 - My Unilateral Debate: Katharine Susannah Prichard, Rebel Heroes and Matters Pertaining
Jack Beasley recounts his relationship with Katharine Susannah Prichard in the context of their shared involvement with the Communist Party of Australia, and Beasley's efforts…
1 October 1983 - Review of books by Hal Porter, Catherine Helen Spence, Douglas Stewart and Ric Throssell
Webby reviews the following books:
The Extra by Hal Porter (Thomas Nelson Australia Limited. Melbourne, 1975).
An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence (W.K. Thomas &…
1 October 1976 - ‘Will This be Your Poem, or Mine?’: The Give and Take of Story
Discusses the issue of cultural appropriation in Australian literature.
1 October 2007 - Review of Locating Australian Literary Memory, by Brigid Magner
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…
29 October 2020 - Losing Sight of Billy: Moving Beyond the Specular in Haxby’s Circus
Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Haxby’s Circus: the Lightest Brightest Little Show on Earth (1930) chronicles the life of Gina Haxby as she travels with a circus…
23 May 2022
Contributors
- Jack Beasley
- Carol Hetherington
- Joy W. Hooton
- Ellen Malos
- Noel Rowe
- Shirley Walker
- Elizabeth Webby
- Elizabeth Webby
- Jessica White