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Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 Essays in Australian Fiction
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Notes

  • Several of these essays first appeared, in a shorter form, as part of a series on Australian writers published in the Bulletin in 1937.

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Two Women Novelists : Henry Handel Richardson and Katharine Susannah Prichard, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism
'An early version of this work was delivered as a lecture by Flora Eldershaw to the Australian English Association on 23 April 1931 and first printed in pamphlet form under the title Contemporary Australian Women Writers. It was later revised and expanded for publication in Essays in Australian Fiction (1938). (Editor's note, Plaque with Laurel: Essays ,Reviews and Correspondence. Ed. Maryanne Dever, 1995) Sections of the work also appeared as part of a series on Australian writers published in the Bulletin in 1937.
 (p. 1-40)
Frank Dalby Davison, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism (p. 41-80)
Vance Palmer, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism (p. 81-120)
Leonard Mann, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism (p. 121-137)
The Montforts, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism (p. 138-157)
Christina Stead, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism

'In three years Christina Stead has written three books—The Salzburg Tales, 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney, 1935, and The Beauties and Furies, 1936—and they bring a new note into Australian fiction. The first is a collection of stories, told by pilgrims to the Mozart festival in Salzburg and held together by a slight and purely formal framework. The stories are set in many places, real and mythical, in this world and the next, and some are Australian. Seven Poor Men of Sydney is a novel, a pattern of lives, of thoughts and emotions, shown against a curiously patterned backcloth of Sydney. The Beauties and Furies is the first volume of a proposed picture in three volumes of student love, and is set in Paris. (Introduction)

 (p. 158-181)
Eleanor Dark, M. Barnard Eldershaw , single work criticism (p. 182-198)
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