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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 The Hobyahs : A Folk Tale
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  • A Cornish children's tale retold with an Australian bush setting.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Victorian Readers : Second Book Second Book of the Victorian Readers Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1930 Z1174212 1930 anthology children's fiction poetry essay prose children's Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1930 pg. 56-63
    Note: Illustrated.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Victorian Readers : Second Book Second Book of the Victorian Readers Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1930 Z1174212 1930 anthology children's fiction poetry essay prose children's Melbourne : Victoria Education Department , 1937 pg. 58-65
    Note: Illustrated.
    • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Richmond Hill Press , 1979 .
      Extent: 51p.
      Limited edition info: Limited edition of 350 signed and numbered copies.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:
      • Illustrated with lithographs.
      • Introduced by Phillip Adams and including reminiscences of other Australians, such as David Williamson, who recalled the story from school days.
      ISBN: 0908157037, 090815703 (v.Folio)

Works about this Work

How Early Australian Fairy Tales Displaced Aboriginal People with Mythical Creatures and Fantasies of Empty Land Michelle Smith , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 July 2022;

'Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and princesses set in palaces and forests, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast. But what about the history of Australian fairy tales?'(Introduction)

Taming the Hobyahs : Adapting and Re-visioning a British Tale in Australian Literature and Film Michelle De Stefani , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 43 2017;

'Since its first collection and publication in 1891, the gothic fairy tale ‘The Hobyahs’ has inspired various incarnations in Australian literature and film. This paper explores the trajectory of ‘The Hobyahs’ from its proposed Scottish ori-genesis and adaptation within the context of Victorian (Australian) primary school education, to its revisioning in Australian director Ann Turner’s debut film Celia (1988). In so doing, the paper raises questions about what was misplaced, or lost, as this British tale evolved within Australia’s changing historical contexts and argues that re-visions of the tale made possible through the process of filmic re-contextualisation engaged more authentically with its original gendered undercurrents. Examining the evolution of ‘The Hobyahs’ from print to film also expands upon previous scholarship that has acknowledged the tale’s distinct Australianness and suggests a broader contention regarding the cyclical nature of Australia’s relationship to British fairy-tale traditions: that re-visions have the potential to destabilise earlier twentieth-century Australian adaptations and, in the process, critique the notion of Australian fairy-tale formation itself.'  (Publication abstract)

Forget Hobyahs - Worry about Bare-Bummed Gumnuts! Robert Drewe , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 25-26 April 2008; (p. 3)
True Blue : Banksia Men and Hobyahs Robert Drewe , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 22 January 2006; (p. 17) The Local Wildlife 2013; (p. 119-121)
Hobyahs! Inga Clendinnen , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Agamemnon's Kiss : Selected Essays 2006; (p. 59-63)
True Blue : Banksia Men and Hobyahs Robert Drewe , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 22 January 2006; (p. 17) The Local Wildlife 2013; (p. 119-121)
Hobyahs! Inga Clendinnen , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Agamemnon's Kiss : Selected Essays 2006; (p. 59-63)
Forget Hobyahs - Worry about Bare-Bummed Gumnuts! Robert Drewe , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 25-26 April 2008; (p. 3)
Taming the Hobyahs : Adapting and Re-visioning a British Tale in Australian Literature and Film Michelle De Stefani , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 43 2017;

'Since its first collection and publication in 1891, the gothic fairy tale ‘The Hobyahs’ has inspired various incarnations in Australian literature and film. This paper explores the trajectory of ‘The Hobyahs’ from its proposed Scottish ori-genesis and adaptation within the context of Victorian (Australian) primary school education, to its revisioning in Australian director Ann Turner’s debut film Celia (1988). In so doing, the paper raises questions about what was misplaced, or lost, as this British tale evolved within Australia’s changing historical contexts and argues that re-visions of the tale made possible through the process of filmic re-contextualisation engaged more authentically with its original gendered undercurrents. Examining the evolution of ‘The Hobyahs’ from print to film also expands upon previous scholarship that has acknowledged the tale’s distinct Australianness and suggests a broader contention regarding the cyclical nature of Australia’s relationship to British fairy-tale traditions: that re-visions have the potential to destabilise earlier twentieth-century Australian adaptations and, in the process, critique the notion of Australian fairy-tale formation itself.'  (Publication abstract)

How Early Australian Fairy Tales Displaced Aboriginal People with Mythical Creatures and Fantasies of Empty Land Michelle Smith , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 July 2022;

'Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and princesses set in palaces and forests, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast. But what about the history of Australian fairy tales?'(Introduction)

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