Brian Fitzpatrick Brian Fitzpatrick i(A16242 works by) (a.k.a. Brian Charles Fitzpatrick)
Also writes as: B. C. F.
Born: Established: 17 Nov 1905 Cudgee, Terang area, Camperdown - Terang area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 3 Sep 1965 Tamarama, Bondi area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon The Colonials Brian Fitzpatrick , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2013 6059711 2013 single work novel historical fiction

'Nearly half a century ago, a young Australian journalist without a newspaper decided to try his hand at writing a novel. He was Brian Fitzpatrick, who was later to win public notice as an historian, as a radical polemicist and lobbyist on the fringe of the Labour movement, and as first General Secretary of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties. Yet The Colonials is far more a ‘psychological' novel than a social panorama or a story with a plot. Its was surely the first Australian novel to capture the nuance of a school-teacher's condition—underpaid, conscious of moral superiority to his more vulgar and less well-informed neighbours, resentful of his low standing in a society differentiated by income or appearances more than intelligence or respectability. There is ample plunder here for social historians of the more predatory sort.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Why Not a Uniform Censorship? Brian Fitzpatrick , 1960 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer (1960-1961) no. 19 1960; (p. 37)
1 The Palmer Pre-Eminence Brian Fitzpatrick , 1959 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , July vol. 18 no. 2 1959; (p. 211-217)
1 The Internment of P.R. Stephensen Brian Fitzpatrick , 1959 single work
— Appears in: The Observer , 5 September vol. 2 no. 18 1959; (p. 552-553)
1 A Spring Cleaning for Australian Censorship Brian Fitzpatrick , 1958 single work column
— Appears in: Westerly , no. 2 1958; (p. 25-26)
1 Comment B. C. F. , 1957 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 16 no. 4 1957; (p. 340,443-444)
1 The Contentious Eureka Legend Brian Fitzpatrick , 1955 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 14 no. 2 1955; (p. 255-257)
1 Merinos, Crossbreds, Goats Brian Fitzpatrick , 1954 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 13 no. 2 1954; (p. 316-317)
1 Untitled Brian Fitzpatrick , 1954 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 13 no. 4 1954; (p. 628)

— Review of Rob the Robber : His Life and Vindication Spinifex , 1954 single work poetry
1 Comments on The Unbending Brian Fitzpatrick , 1954 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 13 no. 3 1954; (p. 459-460)

— Review of The Unbending Judah Waten , 1954 single work novel
1 The Writer at Bay Brian Fitzpatrick , 1954 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 1 1954; (p. 3) Overland , Autumn no. 150 1998; (p. 37)
1 Cenotaph i "WHEN it was dark in Martin Place,", Brian Fitzpatrick , 1950 1950 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse 1950; (p. 223-224)
1 Drama of the 'False Dawn' Brian Fitzpatrick , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , December vol. 2 no. 6 1947; (p. 306-307)

— Review of Hail Tomorrow : A Play in Four Acts Vance Palmer , 1947 single work drama
1 Introduction : The Australian Tradition Brian Fitzpatrick , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southern Stories, Poems and Paintings 1945; (p. 5-17)
Surveys, from a socialist perspective, some key figures in Australian literary history in their contribution to the growth of a 'democratic' Australian literature and a multicultural literary community.
1 Two Exiles Brian Fitzpatrick , 1933 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 20 December vol. 54 no. 2810 1933; (p. 40-41)
1 3 y separately published work icon Songs and Poems : With an Introductory Essay on Poetry in Australia Brian Fitzpatrick , Melbourne : Wilke , 1931 Z56758 1931 selected work poetry
1 Sapient B. C. F. , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 July vol. 50 no. 2580 1929; (p. 34)
1 Ethyl Chloride i "Oh, what are the words to that old sweet tune,", Brian Fitzpatrick , 1924 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 August vol. 45 no. 2323 1924; (p. 16)
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