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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 A Cargo of Women : The Novel
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  • Dedication: For Barbara Macfarlan, my mother.
  • Epigraph: Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done...? Matthew Arnold
  • Based on Smith's non-fiction study A Cargo of Women : Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal (1988).

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History Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 July 2005; (p. 6)

— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
Forecasts Claire Mills , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , May vol. 70 no. 1015 1991; (p. 19)

— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
Historic Payload Settles into a Good Yarn Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 July 1991; (p. rev 4)

— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel ; Revolution by Night, or, Katjala Wananu (The Son after the Father): A Story of the Central Deserts Together with the Monograph Written by Jack Terrence Dutruc and Entitled "Interior" an Analysis of Hieroglyphs in Australian Art, and Its Perspectives James Bardon , 1991 single work novel ; Henry Handel Richardson : Fiction in the Making Axel Clark , 1990 single work biography ; Memories of a Country Childhood Judith Wallace , 1977 single work autobiography
History Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 July 2005; (p. 6)

— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
Historic Payload Settles into a Good Yarn Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 July 1991; (p. rev 4)

— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel ; Revolution by Night, or, Katjala Wananu (The Son after the Father): A Story of the Central Deserts Together with the Monograph Written by Jack Terrence Dutruc and Entitled "Interior" an Analysis of Hieroglyphs in Australian Art, and Its Perspectives James Bardon , 1991 single work novel ; Henry Handel Richardson : Fiction in the Making Axel Clark , 1990 single work biography ; Memories of a Country Childhood Judith Wallace , 1977 single work autobiography
Forecasts Claire Mills , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , May vol. 70 no. 1015 1991; (p. 19)

— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
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