y separately published work icon Miss Donnithorne's Maggot single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Miss Donnithorne's Maggot
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Notes

  • Songs, for mezzo-soprano, flute (piccolo and alto flute), clarinet in A, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion.(Libraries Australia record).
  • Authors Program Note: Miss Donnithorne is thought to be one of the models for Miss Havisham in Dickens's Great Expectations. Stow comments 'It seems likely that there were at least three models for Miss Havisham of Satis House. One was a woman known to Dickens's friend James Payn. Another was a long remembered London apparition, the White Woman of Berners Street, described in Dickens's sketch "Where We Stopped Growing". And the chiefest of them, we can say from the weight of circumstantial evidence was Miss Eliza Emily Donnithorne of Cambridge Hall, Newtown, New South Wales.' (from the Musica Viva programme for the first performance at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, 9 March 1974).

Production Details

  • First performed at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, 9 March 1974. Performed with Eight Songs for a Mad King in April 1974 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.(Anthony J. Hassall Strange Country: A Study of Randolph Stow (1986):190).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Drama in verse form.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Boosey and Hawkes ,
      1977 .
      Extent: 1 score (58 p.)p.
      Note/s:
      • Publisher's no.: B. & H. 20337.

Works about this Work

A Colonist with Words : An Interview with Randolph Stow Xavier Pons (interviewer), Neil Keeble (interviewer), 1976 single work interview
— Appears in: Commonwealth , vol. 2 no. 1976; (p. 70-80) Randolph Stow : Visitants, Episodes from Other Novels, Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Essays 1990; (p. 356-368)
Breaking Down the Hang-Ups Brian Hoad , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 March vol. 96 no. 4898 1974; (p. 38-39)

— Review of Miss Donnithorne's Maggot Randolph Stow , 1977 single work drama
Breaking Down the Hang-Ups Brian Hoad , 1974 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 March vol. 96 no. 4898 1974; (p. 38-39)

— Review of Miss Donnithorne's Maggot Randolph Stow , 1977 single work drama
A Colonist with Words : An Interview with Randolph Stow Xavier Pons (interviewer), Neil Keeble (interviewer), 1976 single work interview
— Appears in: Commonwealth , vol. 2 no. 1976; (p. 70-80) Randolph Stow : Visitants, Episodes from Other Novels, Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Essays 1990; (p. 356-368)
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