y separately published work icon The Rudd Family selected work   short story   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1926... 1926 The Rudd Family
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Thematically connected short stories.

Notes

  • Eric Davis in his introduction to the UQP edition describes the book as a 'collection of sketches written for various journals and publication of the early twenties - the Bulletin, the Woman's Mirror, the Brisbane Courier, etc'.
  • The work contains 'Part One' and 'Part Two'. Ten of the eleven stories which comprise the chapters appearing in 'Part Two' were published in the Brisbane Courier between 14 March and 19 September 1925. (With title: 'Me an' th' Son Again')
  • Richard Fotheringham notes that a play written in 1917 and 'marginally re-written in 1928 with the new title The 'Rudd Family' 'became a major commercial success when staged throughout eastern Australia by William Anderson ...The play's title was intended to suggest strongly that the play was a sequel to 'On Our Selection', although the family in fact are not the Rudds but the Dicksons'. (In Search of Steele Rudd p.137)

Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1973 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
One Evening When Supper was Late, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story humour (p. 415)
The Rudd Family Has an Off Day, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 423)
Bringing a Load of Wood, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 431)
One Bright Moonlight Night, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 439)
Three Dogs, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 447)
Killing Our Own Meat, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 455)
The Parson Goes His Rounds, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 463)
A Deputation, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 469)
The Cheese Factory, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 483)
A Word with O'Shea, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 489)
A Visit from the Banker, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 493)
Building a House for Frank, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 499)
Uncle Sam, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 505)
Mail Day, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 513)
The City Revisited, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 521)
Milton's Hotel, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 527)
More Milton's, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 533)
In Hotel Society, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 539)
Views on Politics, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 545)
Davidson as a Barber, 'Steele Rudd' , single work short story (p. 551)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Rudd Family 'Steele Rudd' , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1984 Z356703 1984 selected work novel short story humour Omnibus edition of six Rudd works previously republished by University of Queensland Press in the 1960s and 1970s with introductions by Eric Davis. . Illustrations of the original New South Wales Bookstall publications are reproduced. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1984 pg. 413-587
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  • Also sound recording.
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Related Works

y separately published work icon The Rudd Family The Old Homestead 'Steele Rudd' , 1928 (Manuscript version)9198200 9198194 1928 single work drama

'There is a daughter who has been well educated and a young squatter who is in love with her. A crook makes trouble, but the timely arrival of a rich uncle saves the situation.'

Source: 'The Rudd Family,' The Advertiser, 31 August 1928, p.21.


The manuscript held in The Hanger Collection of Australian Manuscripts in the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland contains the following character notes:

CAST

TOM DICKSON. About 50 years.

SAM DICKSON. similar in every respect to Tom

FRANK DICKSON. About 22. Tall, raw, bony, walk slouchly, talks with a drawl, but of a swell when dressed. On workdays wears dungarees and looks tidy.

BILL DICKSON. About 16. Also wears dungarees, cheerful talk sharp and frank.

WATLER GRAND. About 35. Athletic, well spoken, good style of scoundrel, educated highly.

EILEEN DICKSON. Attractive, kindly, good figure, well dressed, educated.

MRS. DICKSON. About 45. Silvery hair, fair figure, kindly.

PEGGIE DICKSON. About 18. Rollicking, confident, careless about dress, a bit of a tom-boy. Good figure.

DAISY SHEPHARD. About 26 long faced, solemn, proud, selfish, stuck-up yet simple. Good figure and dresses with quaint taste.

REG WINCHESTER. About 28. Good looking, bushman, smartly dressed, soft hat, riding tweeds and shirt belt.

MRS. SHEPHARD. Mother of daisy.

PARSON MCKAY. Scotch 'meenister'.
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Works about this Work

Arthur Hoey Davis and Several `Steele Rudds': Imagining the Pseudonymous Author Richard Fotheringham , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 297-305) Fotheringham explores the cultural and private appropriation of the name, "Steele Rudd", and examines the implications for understanding the concept of authorship in relation to interpretations of On Our Selection in its various forms.
Another Rudd Story 1926 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 13 August 1926; (p. 2)
— Review of The Rudd Family 'Steele Rudd' , 1926 selected work short story
Another Rudd Story 1926 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 13 August 1926; (p. 2)
— Review of The Rudd Family 'Steele Rudd' , 1926 selected work short story
Arthur Hoey Davis and Several `Steele Rudds': Imagining the Pseudonymous Author Richard Fotheringham , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 3 1990; (p. 297-305) Fotheringham explores the cultural and private appropriation of the name, "Steele Rudd", and examines the implications for understanding the concept of authorship in relation to interpretations of On Our Selection in its various forms.
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