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y separately published work icon My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1902... 1902 My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life
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  • Dedication: To My Fellow-Australian Writers

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y separately published work icon Australian Life, Black and White Rosa Praed , London : Chapman and Hall , 1885 Z236807 1885 selected work short story prose Part re-written and published in My Australian Girlhood; part re-written and republished as 'The Winning of the Ubi Cup' in Dwellers by the River.
Recollections of Mount Lindsay Sigma , 1894 single work prose
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 16 June 1894; (p. 1126)
My Australian Girlhood Rosa Praed , 1988 extract autobiography (My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life)
— Appears in: The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing 1988; (p. 309-373)
From : My Australian Girlhood Rosa Praed , 2002 extract novel (My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life)
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 116-117)
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'The True Hero Stuff' Blak Folk in Early Queensland Fiction Melissa Lucashenko , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 76 2022; 'FROM THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY novels of Rosa Praed well into the twentieth century and beyond, Aboriginal people have been scrutinised and written about by outsiders in terms both simplistic and racist. Such fiction, especially in the era when the novel was about as powerful as Netflix is today, initially served an economic and social as well as a literary purpose.' (Introduction)
The Secret of the Father in the Colonial Secret: Rosa Praed's 'Weird Melancholy' Jennifer Rutherford , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Literature of Melancholia : Early Modern to Postmodern. 2011; (p. 160-172)
Undwelling; or Reading Bachelard in Australia Jennifer Rutherford , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 113-125)
Beautiful Lies, Ugly Truths Laurie Hergenhan , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 187 2007; (p. 42-46)
Unknown Australia : Rosa Praed's Vanished Race Andrew McCann , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 1 2005; (p. 37-50) Examines the presentation of colonialism in some of Praed's work, in particular in her novel Fugitive Anne with its fantasy of the lost Lemurians.
Books, Publications 1902 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 22 October vol. 65 no. 1707 1902; (p. 58)
— Review of My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life Rosa Praed , 1902 single work autobiography
Untitled 1902 single work review
— Appears in: The Book Lover , 1 November vol. 4 no. 43 1902; (p. 270)
— Review of My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life Rosa Praed , 1902 single work autobiography
Literary Imaginings of the Bunya Belinda McKay , Patrick Buckridge , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , November vol. 9 no. 2 2002; (p. 65-79) 'By the time that Europeans became acquainted with the bunya, the gum tree was already well established as the iconic Australian tree. The genus Eucalyptus, with all its locally specific variants, was both distinctive to the continent and widely dispersed throughout it. In contrast, the bunya tree (classified as Araucaria bidwillii in 1843) grew in a small area of what is now South-East Queensland and was seen by few Europeans before the 1840s, when Moreton Bay was opened to free settlement. The physical distinctiveness of the bunya tree, and stories of the large gatherings which accompanied the triennial harvesting ofits nut, aroused the curiosity of early European explorers and settlers, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the bunya tree achieved a special status in local civic culture. Although heavy logging had largely destroyed the great bunya forests, the tree was planted extensively in school grounds, around war memorials and in long avenues in parks.' (Introduction) 
Unknown Australia : Rosa Praed's Vanished Race Andrew McCann , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 1 2005; (p. 37-50) Examines the presentation of colonialism in some of Praed's work, in particular in her novel Fugitive Anne with its fantasy of the lost Lemurians.
Beautiful Lies, Ugly Truths Laurie Hergenhan , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 187 2007; (p. 42-46)
Final Intention, Revision and the Genetic Text : Editing Rosa Praed's 'My Australian Girlhood' Chris Tiffin , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Editing in Australia 1990; (p. 125-136)
Queensland Authors and Artists’ Association [Meeting Report] 1927 single work column
— Appears in: The Muses' Magazine , November vol. First Year no. 1 1927; (p. 31)
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