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Australian Women's Mirror, 24 July 1946, p.7
E. M. Baily E. M. Baily i(A7911 works by) (a.k.a. Elsie Marion Baily; Elsie Marion Croll)
; Died: Ceased: 19 Nov 1974 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
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1 form y separately published work icon The Devil's Lamp E. M. Baily , Sydney : 2UE , 1947 19596402 1947 single work radio play

A 'murder mystery in which a disused mine and a legend about a miner's lamp showing a ghostly flame make an uncanny tale'.

Source: 'Radio Log', Herald, 3 January 1947, p.11.

1 Wings of Mystery E. M. Baily , 1938 single work novel
1 Birds of Feather E. M. Baily , 1937 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 4 March 1937; (p. 5, 8)
A rich entrepreneur commits suicide and so a doctor visits his widow. Because they had once been engaged, she tells him about a safe where jewels are hidden. She wants to keep her pearls from the police because she doesn't want to pay her husband's business debts. That night her husband comes to her room telling her he had faked his death. He opens the safe and gives her the pearls. Suddenly a thief enters and takes everything, laughingly explaining that her maid was his accomplice.
1 Wings of the Morning E. M. Baily , 1937 single work novel
1 Lure of the Yellow Dust E. M. Baily , 1937 single work novel
1 The Land of Forgetting E. M. Baily , 1935 single work novel

A Tale of the Inland.

This is a tale of inland Australia, of the mulga scrub, the desert, and life in one of the "way-back" towns to which a prospector, rescued when nearly dead in the bush, is brought and put in the hospital, there to meet the woman with whom his destiny is to be linked. The story is simply told. The characters are plain and natural. They are assembled in the small settlement, of which the reader is given a lively sense of the heat and dust and general isolation, and the miners, teamsters, police, and aeroplanes, make up a colourful picture, while the narrative receives dramatic force by the intrusion of a stranger who stirs up trouble for the young lovers. The interest will be found to move rapidly through the instalments.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 1935, p4. 

1 Passing the Love of Women E. M. Baily , 1934 single work novel

'Beginning on Tuesday next, we will give a new story, by Mrs. Elsie M. Baily, author of "Outcasts of Eden" and "Pathways to the Sky." Entitled "Passing the Love of Women," it is a romance of Australia on a new note—the inland with its great wide plains and endless distances, and in that colourful setting full of "atmosphere," the author tells a tale of men and women of the outback, in which are interwoven scintillating flashes and sketches of the country and its mysteries the blacks, heat, storm, dust, and gold.

'This is an unusual book. The heroine is a nurse, who has taken a post in a hospital in Central Australia, to cut herself off from a bitter past. There she meets a man who revives her almost broken spirit, and stirs her heart to a new love, but his mate is a figure from her former life, who causes disturbing complications. The whole thing is cleverly done. The major characters play their parts almost entirely within the walls of the hospital, but the reader is not burdened with hospital detail and medical jargon, but taken again and again, with quick brush strokes, out into the great openness of the inland with much adept character-drawing and scene-painting. It is written with a practised hand, a well-constructed tale, in which the interest is never allowed to drag.'

- The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 1934, p. 4

1 y separately published work icon Outcast of Eden E. M. Baily , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1933 Z557237 1933 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Pathways of the Sky E. M. Baily , Sydney : Macquarie Head Press , 1933 Z557024 1933 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Chains of Yesterday E. M. Baily , Sydney : Sydney Newspapers , 1930-1939 Z815821 1930-1939 single work novella
1 The River's Triumph E. M. Baily , 1929 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 April vol. 50 no. 2564 1929; (p. 47)
1 Triumph E. M. Baily , 1926 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 October vol. 47 no. 2437 1926; (p. 48)
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