Dedication:
Inscribed
To my Father
In Remembrance
Of That Happy English Summer
Which After a Long Separation
We Spent Together,
And With Which
THIS BOOK
Is In Our Minds Associated
Epigraph:
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Moloch'
'Aristotle defines...- the cleansing - of passion as the elevating joy felt in the victory over that which threatens the moral order of the world, and in the certainty that every crime carries in itself the seeds of its own retribution, the world's history becoming the world's judgement...
'Rosa Praed has been claimed as ‘the first Australian-born novelist to achieve a significant international reputation.’ Almost certainly, she was the first Australian-born novelist to be published in the United States, although she was in England by the time her first novel appeared in America in 1883. Of Praed's forty-seven published works, twenty-five appeared in American editions in the three decades from 1883 to 1915, including twenty-four of her thirty-eight novels in more than forty separate editions. In the years either side of the century's turn, she was among the best known Australian writers in America, alongside Louis Becke and Rolf Boldrewood.' (Publication abstract)
'Rosa Praed has been claimed as ‘the first Australian-born novelist to achieve a significant international reputation.’ Almost certainly, she was the first Australian-born novelist to be published in the United States, although she was in England by the time her first novel appeared in America in 1883. Of Praed's forty-seven published works, twenty-five appeared in American editions in the three decades from 1883 to 1915, including twenty-four of her thirty-eight novels in more than forty separate editions. In the years either side of the century's turn, she was among the best known Australian writers in America, alongside Louis Becke and Rolf Boldrewood.' (Publication abstract)
