Barbara Brooks Barbara Brooks i(A14450 works by) (a.k.a. Barbara Grace Brooks)
Born: Established: 1947 Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Caroline’s Dilemma. A Colonial Inheritance Saga Barbara Brooks , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 54 no. 3 2023; (p. 583-584)

— Review of Caroline's Dilemma Bettina Bradbury , 2019 single work biography

'What did it mean to be widowed in Australia in the 1860s? Bettina Bradbury explores this question through a close examination of the extraordinary plight of English-born Protestant Caroline Bax. Caroline, at age nineteen, married Irish-born Catholic Edward Kearney in 1853. Kearney, aged thirty-four at the time of the marriage, was an ambitious man, hoping to make good on a sheep station in South Australia. Clearly a hard-working wife and children would help supply the labour to back his grand plans. Bradbury’s close examination of one family story provides a model of how to highlight the larger structures that governed women’s lives, across continents, in the nineteenth century.' (Introduction)

1 Grey November i "Grey skies in November. The old town begins to look dingy. Grey walls, stained", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Eating in Spanish Time i "We adapt to local time and eat la comida, the main meal, at 3pm. The evening meal,", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 A Hot Wind from Africa i "We are living with history. Every day we walk past the Roman walls. Medinaceli’s", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Dancing the Flamenco with Thelonius Monk i "We’re at the Palau de Musica Catalana, an art nouveau building with a huge stained", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 In Spanish I Am Too Baroque i "Pino’s boyfriend Ricard works in IT and speaks English because that is the", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Medinaceli, the City in the Sky i "On the verge of homelessness, with the hotels full of tourists, we ring Oriol, who", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Diego and Durruti i "Now the flat is renovated, Anna and the children are coming back; our room is full of", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 August in Barcelona i "Four months in another country begins here: Barcelona Airport, August 2000, a hot", Barbara Brooks , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Four Months in Barcelona Barbara Brooks , 2020 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November no. 30 2020;
1 Mutitjulu Diary : Notes from February/March 1996 Barbara Brooks , 2015 single work diary
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 30 2015;
1 2 y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue Website Series Mud Map : Australian Women's Experimental Writing no. 17 17 April Rosslyn Winifred Prosser (editor), Anna Gibbs (editor), Barbara Brooks (editor), Moya Costello (editor), 2013 Z1936910 2013 periodical issue
1 Bucketty Diary Barbara Brooks , 2013 single work diary
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 20 2013;

'Bucketty Diary is an extract from a journal written during visits to a cabin in the bush at Bucketty, north of Sydney, over a period of several years. At the beginning and end of the journal there are short accounts of the context of the journal. The writing observes the environment, and reflects on the experience of living close to the country, an experience like camping out. It is creative rather than critical writing, with a brief reflection at the end on influences and intentions. ' (Author's abstract)

1 On the Colonial Veranda Barbara Brooks , 2011 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Summer no. 34 2011;
1 Untitled Barbara Brooks , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , Summer vol. 1 no. 2011;

— Review of Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010 anthology criticism essay
1 Searching for Monty Barbara Brooks , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Summer no. 34 2011; (p. 181-188)
1 Lost in the House (From Verandahs, A Fictional Memoir) Barbara Brooks , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Heat , no. 22 (New Series) 2010; (p. 135-147)
1 The Verandah Notebooks (from a work-in-progress) Barbara Brooks , 2009 extract prose
— Appears in: Outskirts : Feminisms along the Edge , May vol. 20 no. 2009;
1 Verandah, Kohat (Extract from Verandahs : A Work in Progress) Barbara Brooks , 2008 single work short story
— Appears in: Re-Placement : A National Anthology of Creative Writing from Universities across Australia 2008; (p. 1-4)
1 In Search of Verandahs Barbara Brooks , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 112 2008; (p. 32-37)
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