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Colonial Australian Popular Fiction Digital Archive
y separately published work icon Our Alma : An Australian Story single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 Our Alma : An Australian Story
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'Goldsmith's first novel, Our Alma (1894), is a light-hearted romance of Italian emigrants and goldmining in Victoria, which received favourable reviews in the colonial press. His second novel, Euancondit, which was published the next year, is a settler's tale that contrasts upper class Melbourne society with bush life.' (Source: http://www.apfa.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/biogs/E000097b.htm )

Notes

  • This appears to be the first Australian novel with Italian protagonists.

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Works about this Work

Italian Immigrants in Australian Fiction 1900-1950 Roslyn Pesman Cooper , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 1 1993; (p. 67-78)
New Publications 1894 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 31 March vol. 57 no. 1760 1894; (p. 644)

— Review of Our Alma : An Australian Story Henry Goldsmith , 1894 single work novel
New Publications 1894 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 31 March vol. 57 no. 1760 1894; (p. 644)

— Review of Our Alma : An Australian Story Henry Goldsmith , 1894 single work novel
Italian Immigrants in Australian Fiction 1900-1950 Roslyn Pesman Cooper , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 1 1993; (p. 67-78)
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