'In recent historical fiction, women authors have explored the Australian past from a female viewpoint, as in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves (2020), focusing on Elizabeth Macarthur, and Anita Heiss’s Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (2022), about Wagadhaany, an Indigenous woman from the Murrumbidgee River. As if in response to such potent novels, now comes a trio expressing historical masculinity.' (Introduction)
'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.'
'In 1869, just after the American Civil War and just before Anna Karenina appeared, Henry James O’Farrell, Irish by birth and affiliation but long domiciled in Australia, took a shot at Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria, who was visiting Sydney at the time.'
'In recent historical fiction, women authors have explored the Australian past from a female viewpoint, as in Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves (2020), focusing on Elizabeth Macarthur, and Anita Heiss’s Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (2022), about Wagadhaany, an Indigenous woman from the Murrumbidgee River. As if in response to such potent novels, now comes a trio expressing historical masculinity.' (Introduction)
