Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 1859 Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life
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Notes

  • The first novel by a South Australian woman to be published in South Australia, and the first novel to be set wholly in South Australia.

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Works about this Work

Love Is Not Enough : Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Hsu-Ming Teo , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
Remembering the Self in the Colonial Garden : Gardens and Subjectivity Susan K. Martin , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Memory, Monuments and Museums : The Past in the Present 2006; (p. 182-193, notes 276-278)
y separately published work icon Our Own Matilda : Matilda Jane Evans 1827-1886 : Pioneer Woman and Novelist Barbara Wall , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1994 Z185965 1994 single work criticism biography
Domestic Ideology and Maud Jeanne Franc Margaret Allen , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Embroidering the Framework 1984; (p. 21-31)
The author compares Maud Jeanne Franc's writing with that of contemporary writers in Britain and the United States, highlighting their inter-related cultural heritage, but shows that Franc was responding also to a number of forces and issues specific to the Australian and South Australian colonial environment.
Children's Books 1865 single work review
— Appears in: The Athenaeum , 2 December 1865;

— Review of Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life Maud Jeanne Franc , 1859 single work novel
Untitled 1859 single work review
— Appears in: The Farm and Garden , 9 June 1859; (p. 20)

— Review of Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life Maud Jeanne Franc , 1859 single work novel
Untitled 1859 single work review
— Appears in: The Farm and Garden , 8 July 1859; (p. 14)

— Review of Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life Maud Jeanne Franc , 1859 single work novel
Untitled 1859 single work review
— Appears in: The Farm and Garden , 11 August 1859; (p. 25)

— Review of Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life Maud Jeanne Franc , 1859 single work novel
Untitled 1859 single work review
— Appears in: The South Australian Register , 20 June 1859; The Adelaide Observer , 18 June 1859;

— Review of Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life Maud Jeanne Franc , 1859 single work novel
Untitled 1859 single work review
— Appears in: The Victorian Monthly Magazine , July 1859; (p. 189-191)

— Review of Marian, or The Light of Someone's Home : A Tale of Australian Bush Life Maud Jeanne Franc , 1859 single work novel
Remembering the Self in the Colonial Garden : Gardens and Subjectivity Susan K. Martin , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Memory, Monuments and Museums : The Past in the Present 2006; (p. 182-193, notes 276-278)
y separately published work icon Our Own Matilda : Matilda Jane Evans 1827-1886 : Pioneer Woman and Novelist Barbara Wall , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 1994 Z185965 1994 single work criticism biography
Domestic Ideology and Maud Jeanne Franc Margaret Allen , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Embroidering the Framework 1984; (p. 21-31)
The author compares Maud Jeanne Franc's writing with that of contemporary writers in Britain and the United States, highlighting their inter-related cultural heritage, but shows that Franc was responding also to a number of forces and issues specific to the Australian and South Australian colonial environment.
Love Is Not Enough : Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Hsu-Ming Teo , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
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