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Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories
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* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 1979 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Performance, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 1-29)
Winter Nelis, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 30-40)
The Owner of Grief The Outworks of the Kingdom, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 41-47)
The Agent in Travelling, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 48-55)
The Long Distance Lecture, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 56-69)
The Fellow Passenger, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story
'As his ship proceeds to Australia, Dr Abrahams goes on a parallel inner journey.' (Journeys, p.149)
(p. 70-83)
Mr Parker's Valentine, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 84-95)
A New World, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 96-104)
The Travelling Entertainer, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 105-131)
Grasshoppers, Elizabeth Jolley , single work short story (p. 133-181)

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Works about this Work

Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing Barbara Milech , Brian Dibble , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;

'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.

Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.

This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)

`Du Holde Kunst': Music and Musical Form in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction A. P. Riemer , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Elizabeth Jolley : New Critical Essays 1991; (p. 208-218)
Love, Longing and Loneliness : The Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley Laurie Clancy , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 56 1983; (p. 8-12)
Between Two Worlds - An Approach to Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction A. P. Riemer , 1983 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 43 no. 3 1983; (p. 239-252)
All the Qualities of The Art : Circuiting Some Shorts Elizabeth Webby , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 40 no. 2 1981; (p. 200-208)

— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories Elizabeth Jolley , 1979 selected work short story ; South Pacific Stories 1980 anthology short story ; The Hottest Night of the Century : Short Stories Glenda Adams , 1979 selected work short story ; To Command the Cats and Other Stories Geoffrey C. Bingham , 1980 selected work short story ; Mobiles and Other Stories Peter Cowan , 1979 selected work short story ; Summer Ends Now : Stories John Cameron Emery , 1980 selected work short story ; The Hat on the Letter O and Other Stories Nicholas Hasluck , 1978 selected work short story ; Walking the Line Rae Desmond Jones , 1979 selected work short story ; The Possession of Amber Nicholas Jose , 1980 selected work short story ; Faces You Can't Find Again : Short Stories Michele Nayman , 1980 selected work short story ; White River and Other Stories Justina Williams , 1979 selected work short story ; The Skedule and Other Australian Short Stories H. H. Wilson , 1979 selected work short story ; The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets Frank Moorhouse , 1980 selected work short story
All the Qualities of The Art : Circuiting Some Shorts Elizabeth Webby , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 40 no. 2 1981; (p. 200-208)

— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories Elizabeth Jolley , 1979 selected work short story ; South Pacific Stories 1980 anthology short story ; The Hottest Night of the Century : Short Stories Glenda Adams , 1979 selected work short story ; To Command the Cats and Other Stories Geoffrey C. Bingham , 1980 selected work short story ; Mobiles and Other Stories Peter Cowan , 1979 selected work short story ; Summer Ends Now : Stories John Cameron Emery , 1980 selected work short story ; The Hat on the Letter O and Other Stories Nicholas Hasluck , 1978 selected work short story ; Walking the Line Rae Desmond Jones , 1979 selected work short story ; The Possession of Amber Nicholas Jose , 1980 selected work short story ; Faces You Can't Find Again : Short Stories Michele Nayman , 1980 selected work short story ; White River and Other Stories Justina Williams , 1979 selected work short story ; The Skedule and Other Australian Short Stories H. H. Wilson , 1979 selected work short story ; The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets Frank Moorhouse , 1980 selected work short story
Untitled D. R. Burns , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 19 1980; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Country Girl Again : Stories Jean Bedford , 1979 selected work short story ; War Crimes : Short Stories Peter Carey , 1979 selected work short story ; The Wife Specialist : Stories Laurie Clancy , 1979 selected work short story ; The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories Elizabeth Jolley , 1979 selected work short story
Three Short Story Writers - Peter Cowan, Elizabeth Jolley, Justina Williams Bruce Williams , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 25 no. 2 1980; (p. 104-107)

— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories Elizabeth Jolley , 1979 selected work short story ; White River and Other Stories Justina Williams , 1979 selected work short story ; Mobiles and Other Stories Peter Cowan , 1979 selected work short story
Casualties of Their Own Environment Lucille Fisher , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 December 1979; (p. 20)

— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories Elizabeth Jolley , 1979 selected work short story
Tales of Imagination and Realistic Horror D. R. Burns , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 19 1980; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories Elizabeth Jolley , 1979 selected work short story
Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing Barbara Milech , Brian Dibble , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;

'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.

Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.

This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)

Love, Longing and Loneliness : The Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley Laurie Clancy , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 56 1983; (p. 8-12)
Five Acre Hell Thomas Shapcott , 1980 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 25 no. 4 1980; (p. 73-75)
`Du Holde Kunst': Music and Musical Form in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction A. P. Riemer , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Elizabeth Jolley : New Critical Essays 1991; (p. 208-218)
Between Two Worlds - An Approach to Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction A. P. Riemer , 1983 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 43 no. 3 1983; (p. 239-252)
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