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Issue Details: First known date: 1913... 1913 Dunham Days : A Sketch
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'The second of only two Australian girls' school stories to be set in Catholic schools, Dunham Days concerns the final term of best friends. Helen Scott and Marian Dance attend Dunham, a convent school on the Parramatta River in Sydney. The two girls are dual Heads and about to sit for the University examinations. Dunham Days contains similar moral themes to the ones explored in the other [C]atholic girls' school story, Nellie Doran. One of the girls, Inez, loses her temper and accidentally hits another girl. Inez has a passionate temper which she constantly has to control. According to school rules Inez will be expelled unless the whole school petitions against it. One of the girls, Eleanor, refuses to comply until her friend threatens that she will tell the Nuns about the illicit books she reads. Inez is saved from expulsion and vows she will never forget the incident, praying to God to help her control her temper. When one of the girls falls violently ill, Eleanor's misdeeds comes to light and she is punished' (Rachel Crawford, Bonza Schooldays).

Notes

  • Epigraph: We gaze in happy retrospect
    Adown the distant years
    Filled with crowded memories
    Of school-day hopes and fears.

    A chain of linked fondness
    Connects 'old girls' with 'new',
    And prompts this halting tribute
    From my weak pen to you. M. L.

  • Dedication: Dedicated with affection to Gertrude Scarfe.

Works about this Work

'Dunham Days' 1914 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 5 March 1914; (p. 2)

— Review of Dunham Days : A Sketch M. I. Little , 1913 single work novel
'Dunham Days' 1914 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 18 June 1914; (p. 3)

— Review of Dunham Days : A Sketch M. I. Little , 1913 single work novel
An extensive synopsis of Little's novel is accompanied by an acclamation of her status as a Territorian by birth.
'Dunham Days' 1914 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 18 June 1914; (p. 3)

— Review of Dunham Days : A Sketch M. I. Little , 1913 single work novel
An extensive synopsis of Little's novel is accompanied by an acclamation of her status as a Territorian by birth.
'Dunham Days' 1914 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 5 March 1914; (p. 2)

— Review of Dunham Days : A Sketch M. I. Little , 1913 single work novel
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