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Lyndall Ryan Lyndall Ryan i(A72667 works by)
Born: Established: 14 Apr 1943 Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 30 Apr 2024 Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
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1 Robert Cox, Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements Grapple with the Lives of Two Warriors from the Black War in Tasmania Lyndall Ryan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 19 no. 2 2022; (p. 413-415)

— Review of Broken Spear : The Untold Story of Black Tom Birch, the Man Who Sparked Australia's Bloodiest War Robert Cox , 2021 single work biography ; Tongerlongeter : First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero Henry Reynolds , Nicholas Clements , 2021 single work biography

'Among the vast number of books on the history of the Black War, there are virtually no biographies of the guerrilla leaders on the other side of the frontier. Instead, historians have relied on convict artist Thomas Bock’s compelling portraits of these men and women, to gain insights into their bravery and humanity. The biographies that do exist of Truganini, Woorraddy and Pevay tend to foreground their experiences as part of G.A. Robinson’s friendly mission on the settler side of the frontier. Apart from a short study of Walyer, the woman guerrilla leader in northern Tasmania, there have been no major studies of the guerrilla leaders who led the resistance at the height of the Black War.' (Introduction)

1 Aboriginal Agents, Victims and Voyagers : Richard Broome's Contribution to the Debate about the Frontier Wars in Victoria Lyndall Ryan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation : Richard Broome and the Practice of Aboriginal History 2018;
1 The Myall Creek Massacre : Was It Typical of the Time? Lyndall Ryan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre 2018;
1 'A Very Bad Business' : Henry Dangar and the Myall Creek Massacre 1838 Lyndall Ryan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre 2018;
1 3 y separately published work icon Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Jane Lydon (editor), Lyndall Ryan (editor), Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2018 13182895 2018 anthology criticism

'The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Myall Creek was not the last time the colonial administration sought to apply the law equally to Aboriginal people and settlers, but it was the last time perpetrators of a massacre were convicted and hanged.

'Marking its 180th anniversary, this book explores the significance of one of the most horrifying events of Australian colonialism. Thoughtful and fearless, it challenges us to look at our history without flinching as an act of remembrance and reconciliation.' (Summary)

1 y separately published work icon [Review] Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity Lyndall Ryan , 2017 21779404 2017 single work review
— Review of Into the Heart of Tasmania : A Search for Human Antiquity Rebe Taylor , 2017 single work biography
Rebe Taylor is no stranger to the complex debate about Tasmanian Aboriginal extinction. In her first book, Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island (2002), she explored the history of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community on Kangaroo Island and how it was forced to ‘disappear’ into the wider white community. In her latest book, she focuses on two leading British extinction theorists of the Tasmanian Aborigines in the twentieth century, Ernest Westlake (1855–1922) and Rhys Jones (1941–2001). She not only explores their collection of evidence for the antiquity of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, she also shows how they overlooked other aspects of their findings that indicated that far from becoming extinct, the Tasmanian Aboriginal people had survived into the present.
1 Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History : Review Lyndall Ryan , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 46 no. 3 2015; (p. 478-479)

— Review of Van Diemen's Land : An Aboriginal History Murray Johnson , Ian McFarlane , 2015 single work criticism
'The history of the Tasmanian Aborigines must surely be among the most contentious of Indigenous peoples in the world today...'
1 Tasmania's Black War in New Contexts Lyndall Ryan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , December vol. 11 no. 3 2014; (p. 229-232)

— Review of The Black War : Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania Nicholas Clements , 2014 single work non-fiction
1 Caught Out : Edna and Jack Ryan and the 1951 Referendum Lyndall Ryan , 2014 extract autobiography (What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy?)
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2014;

'Expelled from the Communist Party for not toeing the line, Lyndall Ryan's parents were faced with a dilemma when Robert Menzies’s government tried to ban the party'

1 1 y separately published work icon Tasmanian Aborigines : A History Since 1803 Lyndall Ryan , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2012 7435325 2012 single work criticism

'Tasmanian Aborigines were driven off their land so white settlers could produce fine wool for the English textile mills. By the time Truganini died in 1876, they were considered to be extinct. Yet like so many other claims about them, this was wrong.'

'Far from disappearing, the Tasmanian Aborigines actively resisted settler colonialism from the outset and have consistently campaigned for their rights and recognition as a distinct people through to the present.'

'The author tells the story of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, from before the arrival of the first whites to current political agendas. Tasmania has been the cradle of race relations in Australia, and their struggle for a place in their own country offers insights into the experiences of Aboriginal people nation-wide.' (Source: Publishers website)

1 Obituary : William (Bill) Louis Thorpe (11 August 1943-16 November 2009). Lyndall Ryan , 2011 single work obituary (for Bill Thorpe )
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , March vol. 35 no. 1 2011; (p. 113-115)
1 Affectionate Intensity Lyndall Ryan , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 194 2009; (p. 84-86)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
1 Assimilating Australia Lyndall Ryan , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 193 2008; (p. 91-92)

— Review of Heartsick for Country : Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation 2008 anthology life story
1 1 A Brief History of Inspiration Lyndall Ryan , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 November 2008; (p. B9)
1 Australian Studies - The Germinal Texts : 1978-1982 Lyndall Ryan , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Thinking Australian Studies : Teaching Across Cultures 2004; (p. 42-59)
In this article, Ryan selects and analyses six germinal texts published between 1978 and 1982 that became, in her view, 'the backbone of the first Australian studies courses at Griffith University.' She argues that these texts 'shaped the path taken by Australian studies for the next twenty years' (43).
1 Untitled Lyndall Ryan , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May-June no. 29 2003;

— Review of Faith : Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist Marilyn Lake , 2002 single work biography
1 Culture of Forgetting Lyndall Ryan , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 248 2003; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland Ross Gibson , 2002 single work prose
1 A Turning Point for the Weekly and a Turning Point for Women? The Debate about Women and University in the Australian Women's Weekly in 1961. Lyndall Ryan , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies , June vol. 6 no. 1 2001; (p. 52-65)
'In 1961, the Australian Women's Weekly (AWW) was at the height of its popularity as the most widely read magazine in Australia. While it has been used as an ideological text to explore representations of women as active consumers in the postwar period, it has not been used as a cultural and social text to represent the contradictions in women's lives at that time. By focusing on the debate in the Weekly in February and March 1961 about the usefulness of a university education for young women, this paper demonstrates the magazine's importance as a major form of social discourse among women and its influence on shaping their aspirations. In placing this debate in a wider social context of rising expectations of women generally, this paper also shows how the Weekly represented, albeit unconsciously, contradictions in many women's lives that were beginning to surface in 1961. Yet because of its engagement with new forms of consumerism, it could only respond in limited ways. The paper concludes that 1961 was a turning point for women and the Weekly in finding new directions in a booming postwar economy.' (Lyndall Ryan).
1 9 y separately published work icon Who Was That Woman? : The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years Susan Sheridan , Barbara Baird , Kate Borrett , Lyndall Ryan , Sydney : University of NSW Press , 2001 Z921242 2001 single work criticism
1 Aboriginal Women and Agency in the Process of Conquest : A Review of Some Recent Work Lyndall Ryan , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , Autumn no. 2 1986; (p. 35-43)
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