y separately published work icon The Big Country single work   novel   historical fiction  
Is part of Great South Land Saga E. V. Timms , 1948 series - author novel (number 11 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 The Big Country
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This is the story of the Big Country that lies around and beyond the Darling River in the far west of New South Wales. Here, in the year 1874, a beautiful half-cast girl, Jenny Courage, is searching for her father, the white man who abandoned her mother and on whom she means to be revenged. After working as a stewardess on a ferry boat, Jenny becomes a housekeeper on an isolated station. And it is there that Jenny, torn by conflicting passions of love and hate, comes by strange and violent ways to the end of her quest. (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • E. V. Timms planned a twelve book series in his Great South Land Saga, but died before the eleventh book, The Big Country, was completed. Timms' wife, Alma, completed the novel and took on the job of writing Time and Chance, the final volume, for Angus and Robertson.
  • Dedication: For our children, Jessie, George and Warwick and our Grandchildren.

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Works about this Work

Making a Good Nation : E.V. Timms' The Big Country Catriona Elder , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 233-239)
Race, Romance and Anxiety : A History of Mid-twentieth Century Commercial Fiction Catriona Elder , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
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Last amended 15 Jul 2014 11:51:58
Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Darling River, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
  • Bourke, Bourke - Brewarrina area, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
Settings:
  • 1870s
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