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Issue Details: First known date: 1927... 1927 The Mangle : A Novel
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Novel set in contemporary Sydney (i.e. 1920s), with characters based on people from the literary set of the time.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1927 .
      Extent: 315p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Signature: Philip Lindsay, 1927.
      • One bound volume of typescript with, loosely inserted, a 3p. autographed signed letter from Philip Lindsay to his father, Norman Lindsay, undated, but c. 1929, concerning the novel.
      • Chaplin describes this manuscript as follows: 'Inscribed by the author: "The Mangle, a Novel by Philip Lindsay, 1927." The author has made many alterations and corrections to the text. Bound in cloth together with autograph letter from Philip to his father, in which he discusses his writing and particularly this novel. In his autobiography I'd Live the Same Life Over Philip writes that he took this script to P. R. Stephensen at the Mandrake Press, hoping that he might publish the novel which is still unpublished. He also wonders whether P. R. S. recognised himself as the hero of the novel, which he is. ' (Chaplin. Lindsay Miscellany, p. 114.)

Works about this Work

A Gout of Bile : Metic and Immigrant Expatriates Peter Morton , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lusting for London : Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950 2011; (p. 37-55)
'In the unpublished novel by the young Philip Lindsay, The Mangle...there is a fine scene when the character Ronnie Doebrook is leaving for England. He does not expect ever to return. As his liner pulls away from the Sydney dockside, Ronnie picks up one of the yellow paper streamers dangling over the rail, raises it to his lips, and pretends to send a gout of bile spurting over his receding friends and relatives. It is his parting comment on his birthplace. He is realizing his wish. Already he has become - what? An emigrant? An exile? Or an expatirate?' (Author's introduction 36)
Unpublished Novel John Arnold , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fifty Books for Fifty Years : Celebrating Half a Century of Collecting 2008; (p. 16-17)
Unpublished Novel John Arnold , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fifty Books for Fifty Years : Celebrating Half a Century of Collecting 2008; (p. 16-17)
A Gout of Bile : Metic and Immigrant Expatriates Peter Morton , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lusting for London : Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950 2011; (p. 37-55)
'In the unpublished novel by the young Philip Lindsay, The Mangle...there is a fine scene when the character Ronnie Doebrook is leaving for England. He does not expect ever to return. As his liner pulls away from the Sydney dockside, Ronnie picks up one of the yellow paper streamers dangling over the rail, raises it to his lips, and pretends to send a gout of bile spurting over his receding friends and relatives. It is his parting comment on his birthplace. He is realizing his wish. Already he has become - what? An emigrant? An exile? Or an expatirate?' (Author's introduction 36)
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