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Issue Details: First known date: 1921... 1921 The Sleeping Sea-Nymph
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This work, 'a tale of nymphs, princes and mermaids, is another story catering more for the adult taste for romance and rapture than for children' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 262).

Notes

  • Australian Children's Books by Marcie Muir and Kerry White (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992-2003) indicate that this book was published in 1924. However, the 'New Books' section of the December 1921 issue of Corroboree (p. 8) lists The Sleeping Sea-Nymph as a newly published work for October of that year.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Edwards, Dunlop and Company , 1921 .
      person or book cover
      Link: 8502973Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: 56p.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      Note/s:
      • Coloured illustrations are mounted.
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2010, from the collection of the NLA.
      • Digitised copy has a 'Commonwealth of Australia Library of the Parliament' stamp dated 10 August 1921.

Works about this Work

For the Young 1921 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 October no. 26128 1921; (p. 8)

— Review of The Sleeping Sea-Nymph Agnes Littlejohn , 1921 single work children's fiction
For the Young 1921 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 October no. 26128 1921; (p. 8)

— Review of The Sleeping Sea-Nymph Agnes Littlejohn , 1921 single work children's fiction
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