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1 William Albert Amiet, Barrister-at-Law, M.A., Reads His Way through the Great War Jim Cleary , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading and the First World War : Readers, Texts, Archives 2015; (p. 133-152)

'In 'William Albert Amiet, Barrister-at-Law, M.A., Reads His Way through the Great War', Cleary reconstructs the reading history of William Albert Amiet, a Queensland barrister who served in the Australian Imperial Forces as a company commander and was a member of Australia's nascent intellectual elite, A voracious reader, Amiet's diaries show him engaging with a highly varied range of British and European literature during the war: highbrow, classic and popular Amiet clearly saw himself as belonging to the British reading nation and his habits of literary consumption reflect that sense of allegiance, at once both Australian and Imperial subject. Cleary's essay is part of a new trend in Australian book history that emphasises the transnational nature of both the book and trade and settler identity during the period. (Editors introduction 18)

1 'Ariel' and Australian Nineteenth-Century Serial Fiction : A Case of Mistaken Attribution Jim Cleary , Catriona Mills , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 34 no. 3 2010; (p. 162-174)
An instance of mistaken attribution in nineteenth century Australian serial fiction is discussed, in which an early Australian author disappeared from the record when the bulk of her published output was attributed to another writer. Published under the pseudonym 'Ariel', five long tales were wrongly attributed to Eliza Winstanley. Despite disappearing from the record of Australian literature for over a century, Menie Parkes was the true author of the Ariel stories.
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