Cirrus@Austlit

Based on the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame.

'This invaluable source book outlines the lives and works of over 450 Australian women writers, and puts rare manuscript collections on the literary may for the first time. It brings to light novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights autobiographers, biographers, and non-fiction writers from the earliest days of white settlement to the present. It provides biographical information as well as comprehensive bibliographical details: complete listing of the author's publications, biographical studies, the most recent and influential critical surveys of their work and manuscript locations.' (Source: Backcover)

'The text follows the romance between a reckless Australian maiden, Elsie Valliant, and a brash Irish Radical turned Australian Bushranger, Morres Blake - alias, Moonlight - in the untamed wilds of Leichardt's Land, a fictional area of Queensland...Praed's Outlaw and Lawmaker explores the intricacies of emerging Australian colonial life in light of the many questions concerning women's rights, roles and positions in the new world.'

Source: https://australianwomenwriters.com/2017/04/giving-up-the-secrets-of-the-bush-rosa-praeds-outlaw-and-lawmaker/  

'This work, which she sub-titles 'a light novel' is an English mystery story, revolving round a theft of jewels and a murder at 'Tattingwood Hall.' It is something more than a mystery story, however, and might be as aptly described as a highly amusing and clever satire on certain aspects of modern English and American social life, in which a wealthy film artist with an avid love of publicity and an amateur aviator's craze of flying stunts are satirised with rare subtlety. The part which a monkey plays in the story gives it a bizarre flavour and heightens the entertainment of the author's spicy narrative.'

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'Recent Fiction', The West Australian, 10 June 1933, p.4.

'First published in 1923, The Incredible Journey tells the story of Iliapa, an Aboriginal woman, who embarks on a long, arduous journey through the Australian outback in search of her son after he is abducted by a white man. Catherine Martin said that she wrote this novel 'in order to put on record, as faithfully as possible, the heroic love and devotion of a black woman when robbed of her child'.'

'The novel presents a vivid picture of the Aboriginal people (viewed through the eyes of a white novelist), their culture, their dispossession and, in particular, this abhorrent white practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents.' (Source: Goodreads website)

' Following the fortunes of Richard Delavel as a rebellious Oxford undergraduate in 1850s England and a still restless middle-aged family man in 1880s Sydney, the story presents his life and loves, work and leisure, beliefs and hopes against a background of constraints and opportunities in Britain and Australia.' (Publication summary)