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Notes
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The manuscript version of this work held in the Campbell Howard Collection (Dixson Library, University of New England) has the sub-title 'An Episode of the Depression'.
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In Playing with Ideas (1999), Susan Pfisterer and Carolyn Pickett state 'Marjorie McLeod worked extensively as a director as well as a playwright and this is evident in the original manuscript [of A Shillingsworth] which includes a sketch of the stage plan and numerous directions for stage business and offstage sound effects and conversations.'
Production Details
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First produced at the Garrick Theatre, Melbourne, 1931.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Purse Strings and Apron Strings : Women's Economic Agency
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 95-127)
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Purse Strings and Apron Strings : Women's Economic Agency
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Playing with Ideas : Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties 1999; (p. 95-127)
Awards
- 1930 first prize Australian Literature Society Competition
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- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1930s
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