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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Prophesying Backwards
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An episode of 'Blue Hills' about whether a mixed-race couple may produce a throwback prompts one listener to remember the secret life of her friend Ellen. (Back cover)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Lal McCay.
  • Epigraph: 'The past must be revisited, but with irony, not innocently.' (Umberto Eco)

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Works about this Work

Humphries Continues His Satirical Campaign Walter Tonetto , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 April 1992; (p. wkd 6)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel ; Neglected Poems Barry Humphries , 1991 selected work poetry
Contradictory Cultural Life of the 1890s Steven Conte , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 February 1992; (p. C9)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel ; The Nervous Nineties : Australian Cultural Life in the 1890s John Docker , 1991 single work criticism
Past Informs the Present Katharine England , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 18 January 1992; (p. 12)

— Review of The Mint Lawn Gillian Mears , 1991 single work novel ; Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel
Put Your Shirt on Nelson's Nude Lyn Hughes , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 December 1991; (p. 31)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel ; Modern Interiors Andrea Goldsmith , 1991 single work novel ; Edie's Little Girl, the One That... Maureen de Vallance , 1991 single work novel
Revisiting the Past with Irony, Not Innocence Helen Elliott , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 December 1991; (p. 7)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel ; The Sensualist Antonio Casella , 1991 single work novel
Getting to the Bottom of the Past Leon Trainor , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 December 1991; (p. rev 4)

— Review of The Mint Lawn Gillian Mears , 1991 single work novel ; Playing Around Richard Neville , 1991 single work novel ; Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel
Past Informs the Present Katharine England , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 18 January 1992; (p. 12)

— Review of The Mint Lawn Gillian Mears , 1991 single work novel ; Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel
Forecasts Claire Mills , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 71 no. 1019 1991; (p. 29)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel
Cool Anger and a Sure Touch John Hanrahan , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1991-1992) no. 137 1991; (p. 19)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel
Revisiting the Past with Irony, Not Innocence Helen Elliott , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 December 1991; (p. 7)

— Review of Prophesying Backwards Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work novel ; The Sensualist Antonio Casella , 1991 single work novel
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