The Fire-Elves single work   children's fiction   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1904... 1904 The Fire-Elves
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    y separately published work icon Fairy Tales From the Land of the Wattle Olga D. A. Ernst , Melbourne : McCarron, Bird , 1904 Z1327209 1904 selected work children's fiction children's A collection of fairy lore tales with Australian surroundings intended to be as stories told by a child to younger children. Melbourne : McCarron, Bird , 1904 pg. 17-19

Works about this Work

Imagining Colonial Environments : Fire in Australian Children's Literature Michelle J. Smith , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: International Research in Children’s Literature , July vol. 13 no. 1 2020; (p. 1-14)

'This article examines children's novels and short stories published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that feature bushfires and the ceremonial fires associated with Indigenous Australians. It suggests that British children's novels emphasise the horror of bushfires and the human struggle involved in conquering them. In contrast, Australian-authored children's fictions represent less anthropocentric understandings of the environment. New attitudes toward the environment are made manifest in Australian women's fiction including J. M. Whitfield's ‘The Spirit of the Bushfire’ (1898), Ethel Pedley's Dot and the Kangaroo (1899), Olga D. A. Ernst's ‘The Fire Elves’ (1904), and Amy Eleanor Mack's ‘The Gallant Gum Trees’ (1910). Finally, the article proposes that adult male conquest and control of the environment evident in British fiction is transferred to a child protagonist in Mary Grant Bruce's A Little Bush Maid (1910), dispensing with the long-standing association between the Australian bush and threats to children.' (Publication summary)

Imagining Colonial Environments : Fire in Australian Children's Literature Michelle J. Smith , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: International Research in Children’s Literature , July vol. 13 no. 1 2020; (p. 1-14)

'This article examines children's novels and short stories published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that feature bushfires and the ceremonial fires associated with Indigenous Australians. It suggests that British children's novels emphasise the horror of bushfires and the human struggle involved in conquering them. In contrast, Australian-authored children's fictions represent less anthropocentric understandings of the environment. New attitudes toward the environment are made manifest in Australian women's fiction including J. M. Whitfield's ‘The Spirit of the Bushfire’ (1898), Ethel Pedley's Dot and the Kangaroo (1899), Olga D. A. Ernst's ‘The Fire Elves’ (1904), and Amy Eleanor Mack's ‘The Gallant Gum Trees’ (1910). Finally, the article proposes that adult male conquest and control of the environment evident in British fiction is transferred to a child protagonist in Mary Grant Bruce's A Little Bush Maid (1910), dispensing with the long-standing association between the Australian bush and threats to children.' (Publication summary)

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