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1 37 y separately published work icon Towards Asmara Thomas Keneally , Toronto : Lester and Orpen Dennys , 1989 Z10647 1989 single work novel 'In Towards Asmara thomas Keneally - who, to research this tale, visited Eritrea under the protection of the Eritrean rebels - memorably charts the experience of a group of travellers through the eyes of one of their number, Darcy, an australian lawyer turned journalist. His mission is to reveal to the world that the Ethiopians are gun-running under cover of western food-aid convoys. Like him, with a marriage back home that has broken down, each of his companions is experiencing a personal odyssey.' (Source: dustjacket, 1989 Hodder and Stoughton edition)
3 34 y separately published work icon A Family Madness Thomas Keneally , Toronto : Lester and Orpen Dennys , 1986 Z106243 1985 single work novel
11 141 y separately published work icon My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin , Toronto : Lester and Orpen Dennys , 1981 Z161522 1901 single work novel (taught in 56 units)

'My Brilliant Career was written by Stella Franklin (1879-1954) when she was just nineteen years old. The novel struggled to find an Australian publisher, but was published in London and Edinburgh in 1901 after receiving an endorsement from Henry Lawson. Although Franklin wrote under the pseudonym 'Miles Franklin', Lawson’s preface makes it clear that Franklin is, as Lawson puts it 'a girl.'

'The novel relates the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a strong-willed young woman of the 1890s growing up in the Goulburn area of New South Wales and longing to be a writer.' (Publication summary)
6 103 y separately published work icon The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson , Toronto : Lester and Orpen Dennys , 1981 Z901329 1910 single work novel (taught in 25 units)

'A coming-of-age story of a spontaneous heroine who finds herself ensconced in the rigidity of a turn-of-the-century boarding school. The clever and highly imaginative Laura has difficulty fitting in with her wealthy classmates and begins to compromise her ideals in her search for popularity and acceptance.' (From the publisher's website.)
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